March 2012 | Gumnut Inspired

Mermaids: a venture into fantasy

by Liz Powley Sunday, 18 March, 2012 22 comments

My daughter is obsessing about mermaids at the moment. They are a fascinating topic for a four year old and as I’ve been meaning to do some artwork for her room for several years now, I thought they would make a fun subject.

Which is okay, except for the fact that I haven never really done any straight illustration in paint before. So challenge! I started with a sketch yesterday and once I’ve finished my chilli painting from last week (I’m working on it now, it is a beautiful day out there today), I’m hoping to get my claws into this new topic.

A challenge I couldn’t resist

by Liz Powley Wednesday, 14 March, 2012 4 comments

I know I’m nuts. As if I didn’t have enough things to do already, but an A to Z? How could I resist such wonderful order?

My art journalling attempt

by Liz Powley Sunday, 11 March, 2012 19 comments

This week I’m posting my first attempts at art journalling. This is something I’ve wanted to try for some time, but I’m finding it hard to actually do. I’ve done art all my life, but beyond the sketching I did as a child, it has always been to draw up to a fianl piece…you know, the type you frame and hang on a wall. The idea of drawing just for the sake of drawing…the last time I did that must have been before puberty.

Explorations – Bubble painting II

by Liz Powley Thursday, 8 March, 2012 27 comments

Some time ago I did a series of experiments with paint and bubble bath. They proved quite popular and I had several expressions of interest in a tutorial, so I wrote up my first fully documented Exploration. Since then I have received a request to do a video of the technique. It has taken me a while to get there as I didn’t have the equipment to actually put a video together, but a few days ago I finally managed to wrangle one out of my iPad. It is nothing snazzy, but it does demonstrate a part of the procedure I had difficulty explaining in the tutorial.