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Just a couple of bits of news to share with you today, with it being Sunday and with me having spent the day away from home not making anything. Alisa Burke has announced her online sketching class this week to start on Feb 7th. Sign ups are open now for the most reasonable price of [...]
I’ve been wanting to try lino printing for quite some time now but I don’t have the correct tools or the inclination to buy the tools. I do however, have a pack of vinyl floor tiles and a series of gouges that Alasdair uses for his carvings. Ever the type to make do with what [...]
I don’t think I’ve owned a pair of plimsolls since, ooooo, forever! If I had to make a guess then I might suggest it’s been at least 25 years, certainly not since leaving primary school! This is something that’s been pulling at me for some time to do and, Mmmmmm, there’s nothing quite like the [...]
Continue reading about Plimsolls … now there’s a blast from the past!
Jolene and I have been given a temporary reprieve with the kids being looked after by their gran for just shy of a week, ideally this would mean loads of extra time for crafting. Unfortunately the opposite seems to be true, although the extra freedom has given us a chance to get out and about [...]
Continue reading about The Glasgow Boys (1880 – 1900) – Glasgow Kelvingrove Exhibition
Painting, or more specifically, what constitutes a ‘good painting’ is something that has no doubt been contested since the dawn of time when man first began daubing paint on cave walls. You can almost discern, through the mists of time, the first critic carefully contemplating some abstract image of a hunting party bringing down a [...]
It’s been commented on in the past that there are strange things going on in the dark recesses of my mind, that they seem to bleed out into the light through what I create … I think ‘they’ may have a point. I seem to have a raft of canvasses lying around and despite repeated [...]
I had hoped that the guy would have been dressed/assembled today, sadly though a complete failure for any clothes to materialise have meant that this hasn’t happened. I have however, completed my part of the group project though and spent a few hours last night (on top of the many hours construction time) finishing off the treacherous [...]
Continue reading about more papier mache guy – work in progress
I decided to do this after Jolene’s last post in which she was using toilet paper as a medium for her ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards). I really liked the way her colours worked out and I saw something dark in her little pocket sized pieces of art. I suppose some folks might consider this plagiaristic in some [...]
Continue reading about Devilish abstract in watercolours and acrylics
I think I’ve said before that painting is little more than a diversion for me and certainly not something I have any great talent for, although I would like to improve my skills at least a little in the coming years! Bearing this in mind I decided to make use of an online challenge, challenges [...]
Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places…no, I wasn’t sitting on the loo thinking about art; I spotted the toilet paper ATC swap on SwapBot (did I mention I’m addicted to that place) and decided to give it a go. Here’s what I did: Painted the background with black watercolour paint and let it dry, rolled [...]
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