Who needs technical excellence in your art journal? Are you someone who considers themselves a perfectionist? You may want to check out a different blog post …. Seriously, because it’s…
Introduction to Healing through Celtic Myths after Loss This post about healing through Celtic myths after loss is inspired by that saddest of facts - death. More specifically the passing…
Today I am going to take a deeper look inside Creating a Kingfisher with Mixed Media by focusing on some of the other features involved in making art. Every piece starts with some sort of inspiration whether that is manually generated or bestowed upon us by the gods. I often looked to nature for inspiration for art when I feel like just practising my painting and the kingfisher is such a striking subject with its colouring being a natural complementary colour scheme.
Welcome to my post about creating a red panda in pastel and coloured pencil. It is a follow on from my last post about creating lilies in pastel and acrylic. …
Welcome to my post about creating vibrant lilies with pastels. I am going to be taking a loose and spontaneous approach rather than a detailed, highly realistic portrayal of these…
Welcome to Creating Loose Pastel Stag Artwork on Acrylic Hey folkies! Welcome to this post about creating loose pastel stag artwork on acrylic. It’s been a while hasn’t it? My…
In this post I will be looking at layering techniques for rose art journal pages with a focus on one strategy specifically. Last week I got stuck into pastels after a…
2023 is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit so I've made another art journal page following on from my 'Year of the Tiger' page last year. I love doing art journal pages of the Chinese zodiac as it is animal based and there is lots of colour and nature symbolism.
Welcome to another wonderful art journal page post :)[br][br] I say this with a chuckle because the quote for the page is:[br]
You don’t have to be perfect to be wonderfulOf course being wonderful is subjective so there may be various reasons why something is wonderful to you. In this case the page is wonderful to me because it is finished and a mistake was successfully corrected. I’ll explain more about that later . . .[br][br]
This easy art journal page is fun to make with Inktense pencils, gelatos and a cool stamp masking technique. This is another page I have created to give an example of a response to a quote on one of my courses. The quote that I chose was:Everything is hard before it is easy.and I chose it because I find it a good thing to remember on difficult days. It applies to learning a new skill or understanding a concept or even getting over a bereavement or even a breakup. Arguably some things never get easy but what I take from this quote is that there is the possibility of something being easy eventually. I hoped this would also give a sense of hope after working on this idea.