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Goodies in the post
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Some time ago I received an email from Golden Paints. Yes, the guys who make our wonderfully lush acrylics and mediums.
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Scribbling dragons
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This week’s sketching has been revolving around finding a new dragon to paint.
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Persistance is not futile
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None of us were born with a pencil and Leonardo da Vinci’s art education – not even Leonardo himself. Yet, many of us, including me, oggle at the masters’ artworks and grumble about how we can never be that good. Do we ever see the blood, sweat and tears behind those masterpieces? Do we know…
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More Dragons
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This post continues on from my previous post about dragons. The continuing part is the wonderful news that my latest dragon painting is finished!
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Guess who?
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. Work in progress ::grin:: Guess who? 😀 Playing with my watercolours. It is always good to test out a new medium with a portrait 😀 Liz
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Playing with watercolours and fog
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An attempt at a foggy forest. Watercolour on A4 watercolour paper. A good exercise in atmospheric perspective and despite a few faults, I’m quite happy with it. Just need to remember watercolour works light to dark in contrast to acrylics which work dark to light (and are much more forgiving).
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Shades of Grey
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One of the beauties of travelling in winter is the mercurial weather. There be sun, rain, and everything in between. Of course, I speak of the weather in Southern Australia as I am familiar with little else, but in my experience the lighting can be wonderous. The sun, when it is available, is at a…
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Gathering photos
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Since my first digital camera back in 2002, I have been gathering photos. Whenever we went out, travelled on holiday or simply wandered around the garden, my camera hasn’t been far from me. More recently with the increasing capabilities of the smart phone camera, I’ve had its basic capabilities at hand even closer. And then…
