I am a Melbourne based designer, artist and tutor working across a variety of mediums. I draw inspiration from nature, many of my designs include Australian botanical imagery and coastal landscape themes.
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Using watercolour swatches
Swatching out a new set of watercolours is something we all enjoy, but making them a useful painting tool can be even more rewarding by creating colour mix swatches.…... Read More
Watercolour Sunflower 11/03/2022
It seems appropriate to share this original sunflower painting and line drawing in the current times.… Read More
What’s on my Drawing Board 11 Oct 2021
This weeks drawing board has some colour swatches from a new watercolour paint travel set, some explorations in acrylic using dark backgrounds, and illustrations that I'm creating for a... Read More
My watercolour palette for pink flowers
I do enjoy painting flowers in this colour range, including camellias, sweet peas, dahlias and thistles, and thought it may be interesting to go through the paint palette I... Read More
Making Gum Leaves From Silk Threads (updated post*)
* Note from Karen March 18, 2021This is an updated version of my original tutorial posted back in Feb 2019.I have just re written and updated this tutorial and... Read More
Looe Harbour – the evolution of a watercolour painting
I recently completed this detailed ink pen and watercolour harbour scene of Looe, a small coastal fishing port in Cornwall, UK. To be specific this is a painting of... Read More