Tuesday 29 March 2016

Be Beautiful

I hope you had a good Easter weekend.

Here's a digital collage I created.

Credits: all elements from 'Face the Sunshine' by Captivated Visions & B Gosheva @ Sweet Shoppe

Monday 28 March 2016

Easter Decorations

These are some plastic eggs I decorated with alcohol inks.


And a cross I decorated for an exhibition (it was difficult to photograph, so apologies for the shine).

Sunday 27 March 2016

Happy Easter!

I hope you have a good weekend.

This is a canvas I painted on the theme of resurrection.

Friday 25 March 2016

Free to grow and fly

A five minute journal page (with another face).

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Intuitive Painting

Flora Bowley was the guest artist as Wanderlust this week. The key points were to follow your own instinct, have fun, make lots of marks and keep adding the layers. This was all completely new to me, and I'm not sure I like my end product but it was fun.

Here is the point where I thought my canvas could finished, but I really didn't like it.


So, I carried on with more layers until it looked like this.


Still not sure I like it that much, but I can live with it now! I realised I started to paint patterns, rather than just mark-making. So next time, I will to try to be more random ...

Monday 21 March 2016

Mirror Mirror!

A journal page - guess who?!

Saturday 19 March 2016

Whispers

A digital collage! Click on it to see all the detail.

Credits: frame by Nancy Rowe Janitz. All other elements from 'Being Me' by Rosey Posey and Tangie Baxter

Thursday 17 March 2016

Acrylic Paints

The lesson this week on Wanderlust was about acrylic paints. I followed Kasia's example and made a mini-book, a sampler of mark-making with acrylic paints.

Here it is all tied up.


And opened up.






Monday 14 March 2016

A Wanderlust project

Karen Michel was a guest artist on Wanderlust and encouraged us to make a book. I haven't finished mine, but here are some pictures of the work in progress.

First the cover (more to be added).


Now some of the pages. I used various papers and pieces of my own art ...


... carrier bags from my holiday in New York ....


... scraps of paper floating around in my collage stash ...


... torn pages from magazines ...


... basically, anything I could lay, my hands on!

 


Hope you like it.

Saturday 12 March 2016

Similar but different

Both of these pages were created from left-over paint and other scraps in my stash.


Wednesday 9 March 2016

Just Remember ...

... you are amazing!

A digital collage.

Credits: all elements from 'A Better Place' by Captivated Visions & Basic Designs @ Sweet Shoppe

Sunday 6 March 2016

Dreams

Life has been rather busy lately, so I wasn't able to join '29 Faces' this year, but don't let it be said that I have given up drawing them. I wonder what she is dreaming about ...

Thursday 3 March 2016

Joker

I haven't created a jester / joker page for a while, so I thought it was about time I did!

The background is a mixture of acrylic paints with the circles drawn on in ink. I coloured the playing card using water-soluble oil pastels.