Work in progress…pastel pictures
I thought I’d have another go at pastels after my first messy attempt. I may have been a little ambitious, but generally pleased with the results so far. Hopefully it will be as haunting as the original, in the end. As you can see, the stumps of wood are a challenge and at the moment, Read the Rest…
Pastel Picture attempt 1 – Rolling Hills
Seeing as I found water colour sunsets such a challenge I wimped out and tried pastels. I noticed my neighbour at art class doing some great pictures with pastels, but she is also quite experienced and has a natural talent for art which will have helped her! Dad got me some pastels and stuff for Read the Rest…
Watercolour sunset finally finished!
I struggled with this quite a bit, but Maggie really helped me every step of the way, and now I’m quite happy with my first real painting. I learnt a lot through actually applying the techniques shown me and a lot of trail and error. I hope to get a lot better anyway, and at Read the Rest…
Painting Beautiful skylines…well not yet but maybe someday!
As was my original aim with art class, I have started painting skylines, sooner than I imagined. However, I didn’t realise how hard it would be and have spent a lot of time sulking, expecting to take to everything like a duck to water. I was very lucky with how quickly I was able to Read the Rest…
Orange Painting last attempt…for now – Knowing when to move on
I had quite a tough time trying to finish this orange…because although it looks alright, if you see the original picture of three pieces of fruit done by my teacher, it doesn’t have the same peely (technical term there) texture. However, for now it will do, I want to move on to new things and Read the Rest…
Let’s get fruitier – wet on wet technique in watercolour painting
Building on last weeks lesson, and still only using the primary colours, I was to create more fruit but with less definition to the shadows. The banana had a clear cut shadow, so it was easy to paint a line in the darker shade, but with objects that were rounder I needed to learn how Read the Rest…
Let’s get Fruity – 1st lesson of techniques used in watercolour painting
This week I was finally able to start painting an actual object, although it didnt take very long to do in practice. Maggie took me through each step, so it was pretty hard to go wrong, and the lessons I had learnt in mixing colour and making them different consistencies definitely helped and I could Read the Rest…
Do you want to be reminded of your favourite quotes? Plaster them all over your home!
You might think I’m joking and that surely my inspirational quotes obsession has not gone that far, you would be wrong. I think I have done it in a tasteful way though, and for any who want to do the same, you can download or take the idea for your own home. I mostly created Read the Rest…
The Colour Wheel – Who can remember doing these at school???
As I originally started art class with the hope of learning to paint (again) I couldn’t carry on drawing any longer, and finally took up my brushes….and it really took my back. Was reminded of my days at secondary school, making colour wheels, how many other people made them I wonder? Anyway this stage is Read the Rest…
Still life, still – Drawing it all together – Art Lesson 3
In an effort to further put off learning to paint, and stick with what I am comfortable with I returned from half term and rummaged through country life for half an hour for something that wasn’t too challenging…turns out I don’t know what’s challenging and what isn’t.
Drawing inspiration from wood – learning texture technique – Art Lesson 2
Ok so I was fortunate enought to start sketching interesting things straight away, but alas I still needed to go through the practical steps of learning how to use the right pencils, in the right way, blah blah blah. In truth I’m glad I did, because there would have been more difficult ways to learn Read the Rest…
Great tits! and other beautiful birds – art lesson 1
This post has been a long time coming, as I actually started art classes in January – however…there is alot more to tell now a few months on! The first art class I drew a robin without any guidance from the teacher to see what my natural inclination was…however I knew nothing about proportions which Read the Rest…
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