Archive for April, 2012

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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Posted in Blogging from A to Z, wind sculpted trees, zentangle | 2 Comments »

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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Posted in acrylic, creative every day, mermaids and faeries, painting, sunday sketches | 19 Comments »

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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Posted in Blogging from A to Z, experiments | 8 Comments »

X is for X

April 27, 2012
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X doodle

What do you see?
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Posted in Blogging from A to Z, zentangle | 5 Comments »

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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Posted in acrylic, mermaids and faeries, paint party friday, painting | 27 Comments »

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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Posted in Blogging from A to Z, water-soluble pencil techniques, watercolour pencil | 5 Comments »

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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Posted in Blogging from A to Z | 7 Comments »

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 know I can draw quite...
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Posted in Articles, Blogging from A to Z | 6 Comments »

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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Posted in art journal, Blogging from A to Z, experiments, stencils | 3 Comments »

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, so I've revised the sketch,...
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Posted in mermaids and faeries, sketching, sunday sketches | 28 Comments »

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