What’s on my Drawing Board 11 October 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 new project.
My watercolour palette for pink flowers
I recently completed a large watercolour painting of a bouquet of pink Lisianthus 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 have settled on over the years, specifically for painting pink flowers. My Palette collection I have a … 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 uploaded onto the www.instructables.com website – so thought I would update it here too, as I added a lot more info in the step by step processes. On a recent internet … Read More
What’s on my Drawing Board 29 Jan 2021
This weeks drawing board has the beginnings of a few new projects, a completed painting of Looe harbour, some sketchbook experiments and some new pencils and watercolour paints.
What’s on my drawing board, June 26 2020
This weeks drawing board is filled with the paintings from my online course over the last 10 weeks. The art classes I was teaching at my local art group had to close down due to the virus, so I decided to move them online.
Garden Sketching – daisies and negative painting
Half an hour sketching out in the garden is giving me a much needed dose of calm. Today it was daisies and nasturtiums
Exploring a design theme
Using lino printing to explore colour combinations.
What’s on my drawing board, January 09 2020
A sketchbook for every occasion, and a nearly finished painting.
This weeks drawing board is dominated by a drawing that’s been on the go for over a year, plus some experiments and design explorations in a variety of sketchbooks.
How to make a reusable fabric gift bag
Step by step guide – How to make a reusable fabric gift bag
Watercolour disk sets by Micador
Living in Australia we sometimes feel that we are ‘missing out’ when it comes to art supplies. But its worth making sure you check out all of the Australian brands before going offshore, Art Spectrum , Derivan including Matisse and Langridge are some of my favourite artist quality paint makers. Mont Marte cover the other end of the market and … Read More