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out of the sketchbook!
I’m so enjoying the page a day project, and the 12 in 12 (updates on that one soon) but it has meant that not so much art has been going on outside of the sketchbooks. So I decided to venture out of my...
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upside-down-ery
hole-punch holes make for old fashioned typewriter key style letters I love the way ideas and moods will just flip upside down sometimes. From a sure and steady point, no warning, suddenly everything...
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Three Colour Challenge
Nuvofelt’s challenge was just what I needed this evening. After a day of getting on with some long put off jobs about the nest, my reward for myself was an hour or so of de-rusting my painting skills....
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Long Time Week (13/52)
One quarter of the year through: meet week 13. Compared with the last few, this was an uncomplicated page: dragged paint and organic in its making, a lightly tribal vibe. Muted. But as a collection...
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“The Creative Flow”
Set with the challenge to create two works – any media, any format – with the dual themes of Water and The Creative Process. If you’ve been following the story that started out a few weeks ago, then...
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Evolution of a Ideas
I love the dance between the digital and the analog. Set the pixels in place, print and then set to with the tools of a previous age: Actual cutting with actual scissors Actual mess with actual paste....
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The Gestalt is Revealed 24/52
“To see patterns is to understand.” Do you know Jason Silva? He’s media artist, futurist, philosopher, he’s a ball of frenetic energy and enthusiasm and with a magnificent mastery of descriptive...
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reflecting ‘so much more’ 27/52
Every week I create something. Some weeks I create more. In fact – most days I create loads – but in terms of the tangible, the painty reality, every week of this year I am creating at least one...
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Colour bomb 28/52
This week was full of colour. Dabs and daubs. Layer on layer on layer on layer on layer… Eyes and spirals and circles and more… Building up over and over and over and more and deeper and lusher and...
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knowing when
I’ve heard it said the key to painting is knowing when to stop. Conversely, it’s also important (to my mind) to know when to keep going. How many abandoned sketches and paintings are there in the...
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New Color Fuelled Excitements!
I’ve got big plans brewing and I want to tell you all about them! Beginning with (drum roll and accompanying cooing noises, if you will) “TWELVTY” ok, that’s a working title… I’ll tell you a little...
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that time again! (1 of 2)
Looking back at things I made in 12 months makes the year stretch back further. January feels like a lifetime ago now… My 2016 in art journalling has looked like this January February March April May...
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What 3 months of color looks like…
These are the art journal pages from the first three months of Twelvty: This is the story so far. January: Yellow When I look at these pages I’m whisked back the to adventures and explorations of the...
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Flashback: Color, Color, Color!
Last year I had the great pleasure of producing an online class for 21 Secrets all about color. (If you know my art – you’ll know this is my thing!) In the class I teach you how to make a really fun...
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Today we reached the quarter way mark, day 25 of the #100dayproject. To celebrate I've joined up the videos of the first layers of the first canvas I began working on. It's still a work in progress,...
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It's curious to relive the visual journey. There's nothing like filming the process to relive the 'why did I do that?' moments.
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