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…
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 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…
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…
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