Tagged “art”
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art More life drawing
It’s been a while since I’ve shared some life drawing sketches! I find that I usually only like a few from each session, but feel very chuffed with…
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art Plein Air Down Under
This year I (sort of) attended Plein Air Down Under for the first time. I love the idea of painting en plein air, or on location. Sometimes I get a…
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art Charcoal portrait
Another charcoal portrait study, homework again from Stephanie Sheppard. It was an extra challenge drawing from a colour reference rather than one…
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art Charcoal portrait
Charcoal on paper. Started and finished at Stephanie Sheppard's studio in our one-on-one art class. She's a great teacher! Those hands nearly broke…
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art Ha Long Bay
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art Chooks
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art Kookaburras
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art Watercolour workshop with Sue Hibbert
I have been trying to get into one of artist Sue Hibbert's classes for ages, and I think I'm not the only one - they always seem to sell out faster…
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art Self portrait in gouache
Trying to use up some dried up gouache from my palette. Because I painted the background first, it’s overall a bit pinker and darker than I would…
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art Even more life drawing in watercolour
For a while I went back to life drawing in charcoal rather than watercolour, after a run of sketches that really weren't working out. With short…
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art Painting botanicals with Anya Brock
I’ve been following Anya Brock’s work for something like 20 years, so it was surreal to get to do a painting workshop with her! The subject for the…
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art Peachtober digital sketches
I made it through 8 days of the Peachtober 30 day challenge for October, which is a record for me! This year I decided to play around with digital…
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art Life drawing the male figure
Although I've done a fair bit of life drawing over the past year or so, I haven't had the chance to sketch a male model in a long time. It was great…
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art Charcoal portrait
I'm always amazed about how quickly a charcoal sketch can come together... and how quickly it can be smudged if you touch it wrong! I thought I was…
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art Portrait - Sabrina
Recently I've been doing 1 on 1 art classes with Stephanie Sheppard, after going to a couple of her group workshops focused on portraits. This pencil…
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art Life drawing in Charcoal
After struggling a bit with Life drawing in watercolour recently, I’ve returned to charcoal. It’s nice to not have to worry about mixing colours or…
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art Playing with soft pastels
I bought a set of soft pastels a couple of years ago to make some abstract art. They’ve sat in their box, barely used until I felt like braving their…
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art Jury duty sketches
My second time doing jury duty. I got a 4 day trial, which I think is not bad in the scheme of things. It wasn’t gory or complicated but was mostly…
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art More life drawing in watercolour
I’m still doing monthly life drawing sessions, really focusing on making watercolours work for short poses. It doesn’t always turn out great, but I…
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sketchbooks Sketchbook 6
I started this sketchbook in January and completed it in May 2024. 📖 Stillman & Birn Alpha 🎨 Daniel Smith watercolours, Mont Marte watercolours ✏️…
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art Life drawing in watercolour
I’ve been attending more life drawing sessions, and exploring how to use watercolours and watercolour pencils. I’m still struggling in the short…
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art Life drawing in different media
I’ve gone to a couple of life drawing sessions over the past few months, and whilst I’ve mostly stuck with the provided charcoal, this time I wanted…
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art One Week 100 People challenge
This year I participated in OneWeek100People, a challenge organised by urban sketchers Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes for the first week of every…
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art Learning sketching foundations
I'm just completing Liz Steel's Foundations course, having taken twice as long as intended to finish it! Even then, by "finished" I mean that I've…
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art Fountain pens and ink
My first two fountain pens, Lamy Safari and Lamy Joy, along with my first permanent fountain pen ink, De Atramentis in “Urban Sienna”. There’s…
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sketchbooks Sketchbook 3
Started August 2023 Completed October 2023 📖 Born Visual Art Diary, A5 🎨 Daniel Smith, White Nights, , Micador watercolours ✏️ Prismacolor Premier…
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art Our home
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sketchbooks Sketchbook 2
I started this sketchbook at the end of June 2023, and completed it at the start of September 2023. After completing Sketchbook 1, I decided to lean…
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sketchbooks Sketchbook 1
I've tried various times in the past to keep a journal, and usually it fizzles out very quickly. Bullet Journalling was more my speed for some time,…
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art Illustrating Nature course
I've been slowly making my way through the Illustrating Nature course by Laura McKendry on Domestika. I wanted to start dipping more into how to use…
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art Revisiting ceramics
Finally got around to taking photos of the pieces I made in a 1:1 workshop with Lien Nguyen Ceramics The donut is officially the coolest thing I’ve…
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art Jellyfish
I've been mostly sketching traditionally lately, so here's my first go back at digital painting for 2023. Painted in Procreate using the Perfect Oils…
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art Mr Roo
Trying to push towards high key colours, helped by the reference pic of a white kangaroo I took a photo of at Caversham Park. Painted in Procreate…
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art Ms Magpie
Getting back into the swing of digital painting after spending the last week or so messing around with code for this website! This magpie was eyeing…
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