Painting
I came across Irish artist, Anne Ellard’s Sketchbook Project while browsing through Issuu. I just love these silhouette’s she’s created with collage. You can find out more about Anne and view some of her other artwork here and here, or follow her on FaceBook.
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 [...]
The idea of printing on fabric has been something I’ve been wanting to try for some time now. I’ve neither had the time nor the inclination until this weekend, when the urge suddenly took me to get my finger out and make something for a change. In my head this was going to be a [...]
Continue reading about Hanging Matryoshka Dolls – Christmas Decor
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
I made a paperweight! decorated a stone and called it a paperweight! It’s just a painted stone with varnish to protect the paint. I’ve learned a couple of things in the process – black felt tip isn’t black, it’s blue and clear varnish isn’t clear, it’s brown. Anyway, it works as a paperweight, which wouldn’t [...]
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 [...]
We were recently gifted this painting by my mother who, after a long period of abstention, has finally lifted a paintbrush again. Jolene and I were delighted to receive it, not least of all since it’s a painting of our (and our neighbours) house, it’s based on a photo from a couple of years back [...]
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 [...]
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