Friday Catch Up 4Feb22

 Another exercise for the illustration course I am doing. We had to choose an artwork then do lots of versions of it, starting similar and them altering it in someway and using different media. I chose a self portrait by Frida Khalo painted in 1940. The original version by Frida is shown at the end.

Watercolour

Watercolour and pen

Thin acrylic applied with a dip pen

Sketching sticks [similar to charcoal only fatter]

Textured paper, clay colouring crayons

Textured paper, inktense pencils, water

Various green pens

Ink and pen

Watercolour and pen

Collage and pen

The original by Frida Khalo

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Friday Catch Up 24Dec21

My Granddaughter likes dressing up so I thought I would alter a small bag of mine that I don't use. I painted it with acrylics. I didn't come out like I had it in my mind, I was in a rush and didn't plan it out on paper like I should have. I decided to leave the strap as it was just in case the paint comes off.

This is the original bag.

It's Paint Party Friday

and

Happy Christmas to anyone that celebrates.

 

Dog in Acrylics and Sketchbook Revival

Acrylic Painting - Dog

I did this by watching an Angela Anderson video on UTube. I didn't like it when I had first done it but it's grown on me.

Sketchbook Revival

Day 4, session 2: Concertina Fun: Make a fun mini concertina book with Karen Stamper

Day 6, session 2 with Helen Wells. Expressive Sketchbooks: Seeking inspiration outside.

I used small sticks and the end of a feather to draw these with  ink. I used photographs of interesting trees for inspiration. I think this has been my favourite session so far.

I used two of the stick drawings to make a pocket in an altered book.

The pocket holds an altered postcard.

Day 5, session 1. Robyn McClendon - Altered Book as a sketchbook.

Day 7, session 1 with David Drazil

Drawing Perspective Made Easy

This one is 5 point perspective

Day 7, session 2 with Trupti Karjinni

Watercolour Summer Landscape

Day 8, session 1 - Shelley Klammer

The History and Practice of Automatic Drawing

I think you can still join in with these sessions if anyone is interested.

Happy Paint Party Friday!

 

Watercolour, Acylic and Digital

 Doodlewash - Watercolour

Mars

Tea

Earthworm

Acrylic Painting

i thought I would have another go with acrylics for a change. I did a landscape from an art book trying to copy in a loose sort of way but I didn't like it. Next I watched a utube video with Angela Anderson painting an owl which I had a go at. I like how it turned out.

Fabric Design - Digital

I entered a Spoonflower contest entitled Rococo last week with this. I should have posted earlier then you could have voted for it LOL. I used colours that were used in original Rococo design. 

Paint Party Friday is continuing for another year so join in the fun here

Wild Flower Canvas and Garden Cushions

I reused a canvas for this. It had melted wax crayons dripped on it which were set, so I scraped it off. I created texture by using an old tube of lumpy acrylic paint, I'd cut the end off the tube to get to the paint. I then painted over it several times mainly because I didn't like the colour until I got this purple-blue. I painted on the flowers with a brush.

This is the canvas before adding the flowers although the colour doesn't look quite right.

Also this week I made some cushions for my daughters outdoor bench. It is one of my own fabric designs and I'd bought the fabric a while ago for a project and then didn't use it. There wasn't enough fabric to do both sides so I used something else for the undersides. I forgot to take a picture of the cushions on the actual bench.

 

The Long and Winding Road and Portrait

Drawn on my android tablet

I added a photo of a Audrey the cat

then I tried a drawing of a bird

I had another go with acrylic paints. I quite like it but it's not a great likeness.

Happy Paint Party Friday

Cherry Blossom and Doodlewash

My son and daughter-in-law bought me some acrylic paints for my birthday so I had a go with them. I found instructions on the internet for this.

Back to watercolours and Doodlewash

Cheese

Buttons

Feather

Cookies

Part of the full page showing the cake stand. I had an accident with some water at the top of the page so the green pepper got spoilt.