Monthly Painters Challenge – Opposite colours

May 18, 2012
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mosaic closeup

I entered a new challenge this month, the Monthly Painters' Challenge over on Facebook. I was honoured to have been accepted into it in April and I spent most of the month pondering exactly what I was going to do for it. The challenge was 'Opposite Colours', and my initial thought involved a few creatures emerging from a colour wheel and fighting it out. It was a good idea and I could have drawn it, but I felt it was too cartoony and if I did colour it, it would have been in watercolour and my current bunch of art is in acrylics, so I pondered some more.
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Sunday Sketches from Mother’s Day Weekend

May 13, 2012
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Feel

This week I started two new challenges 29 Faces and the Monthly Painters Challenge. I can't reveal the work I have been doing for the Monthly Painters Challenge, but I can say that I'm having a great deal of fun.
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Mermaid still a work-in-progress

May 10, 2012
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Mermaid still a work in progress

And here I am still painting my mermaid. It is taking forever because I only have small amounts of time to attend to it. I ended up setting it up inside and working by my desk lamp. Not the best, but at least I can pick it up and...
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29 Faces – Feeling the moment

May 9, 2012
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Just breathe

Tonight I felt like expressing exhileration or high end positive emotion. Not that I'm feeling particularly exhilerated or anything, but I felt the need to see if I could communicate any of those like emotions in my faces. So I gave it a go.
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29 Faces – Aloof/Haughty

May 7, 2012
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29 Faces

Today I came across the 29 Faces Challenge. I'd heard about this one around the net, but I have never participated in it. This is a sequel to a previous challnge and I'm entering seven days late, leaving me behind before I even start, but what the hey. Gotta...
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More mermaids

May 6, 2012
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Mermaid 3

Youngest Daughter's mermaid is likely to be blue or maybe gold, I'm undecided at this point. Aiming to make her different from Eldest Daughter's (whose mermaid has now been christened 'Sofie'). The octopus has made a return because he was cute in that first original drawing even though Eldest...
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Z is for Zentangle

April 30, 2012
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Determined by Liz Powley

Zentangle is a tradename for meditative doodling. Grab a piece of paper, a pen and just draw. It has become a well defined artform with accredited Zentangle teachers, books, websites and groups of people focussed on this fun and relaxing art.
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Mermaid still in progress

April 29, 2012
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Mermaid WIP3a

Just a quick update before I dash to serve up dinner. My mermaid painting from this sketch last week which I did some more of during the week and today.
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Y is for Yarn and a Yelp for help

April 28, 2012
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Y is for Yarn and a Yelp for help

Do you remember string painting in primary school? Where with a lot of glue, string and mess, you make a picture out of gluing string to paper in patterns. If I recall correctly it was sometimes used to create a print as the string created a raised surface.
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X is for X

April 27, 2012
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X doodle

What do you see?
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Mermaid in progress

April 27, 2012
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mermaidfeaturedimage

This is a follow up on my mermaid sketch from last Sunday. I've started painting.
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W is for Watercolour Pencil

April 26, 2012
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Lotus

While my watercolour pencil explorations are on hold while Inktense and watercolour paints take over my interest, I will always have a fond thought for my hardworked watercolour pencils. They've done a lot of work.
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V is for Vermillion

April 26, 2012
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Journal bubbles

V is for Vermillion. I love the colour vermillion, but as I asked Hubby the other day, is it orange or red? I'm voting orange, but of course, Hubby votes red
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U is for Unique

April 24, 2012
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Finding inspiration

For a long time I used to look at other artists' work and be intimidated, particularly if they were very good at what they did. I'm talking those artists that seem to be able to get their realism so real a photograph couldn't do a better job. While I...
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T is for Texture

April 23, 2012
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Swirl stencil texture

One technique I've found very inspirational is to create a background or texture, just slap in down, and create a piece of work from that. Half the challenge is taken once you have something on the canvas/page and textures are fantastic for doing that.
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Mermaid II

April 22, 2012
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Mermaid 2 sketch

Do you remember the mermaid sketch I did a while back? Its intention was a layout sketch for a painting for my eldest daughter. Unfortunately, eldest daughter had some reservations about the composition. The octopus got his marching orders and a number of other things weren't what she wanted,...
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S is for Stencil

April 21, 2012
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Yay Yay journal page 2

I had a good time playing around in my journal and talking art today. Of course, instead of tackling my planned blog topic for today which had been 'sgraffito', I contented myself with playing with yesterday's embossing and stencilling experiments and arranging them in my journal.
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R is for Rubbing and Recycling

April 20, 2012
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Relief close up

Several days ago I was rifling through the Net looking for a way to make my own stencils. My sister has been experimenting with stencils and moulding paste and has gotten some interesting results, so I wanted to try it out for myself. But although I have a...
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Q is for Quilling – Incredible art

April 20, 2012
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A to Z Badge 2012 (1)

First up I will admit that I have never done any quilling of any kind. But I do have a fascination for paper art and after clambering around the Net looking for quilling art works (c'mon, let's face it, there aren't many art forms out there starting with 'Q'...
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