When I had the idea in my head to start painting again, I didn’t really know where to begin when it came to buying the right materials. Whether it’s oils, acrylics or watercolours; it can be a minefield choosing the ones that will suit your purposes, with the additional costs being extremely high. Some brushes…
I haven’t painted for ages and decided to draw a cat yesterday being in an inquisitive mood. I have a cat that looks just like this one, but is afraid of bees so imagination was needed.
I used a different technique when attempting to draw this horse. I think it’s called ‘Cross Hatching’. It uses fine parallel lines drawn closely together to give shading and texture. I need a little more practice though!
During Art Class 2 weeks ago, we were attempting to paint Botanicals, you know the sort of thing, leaves, flowers and succulents. I love how those cute little bushes are called succulents. Anyhoo, it was downright difficult, and after many attempts I concentrated on the drawing instead and brought it home figuring out that over…
I attended my first art class for the first time last week. I missed last years 10 weeks course and I really missed it. The subjects were fruit and I picked these pears but folded the paper so I had half a pear. I thought it looked better. The leaf isn’t great, but it was…
I painted this watercolour big tonight so that I can put it on my wall. I used only shadows to create the faces. I’ve never used this technique before and it took me quite a while to do. It was also quite difficult, but I enjoyed painting after such a long time.
