Category Archives: Gratitude

It’s been an arty kinda month

It’s been a while since I wrote a post. Seems to be something I say a lot lately. Life’s been busy with my deep dive into developing my life drawing and anatomy skills, learning oil portrait painting, more progress on my portrait practice challenge, and developing my digital art skills too. In between all ofContinue reading “It’s been an arty kinda month”

Art inspiration during tough times

I’m working from home and am almost through my eighth week of recovering from a bulging disc in my lower back. Brisbane is in a kind of partial stay-at-home level of lock down, so it’s important for me to have hobbies to focus on. As I have felt better I have been able to doContinue reading “Art inspiration during tough times”

Creativity Keeping Me Steady

I’ve completed 39 of 100 portraits in my 100 portraits challenge. I have no time frame to do them in. I just want to practice and keep learning how to develop my own creative expression on paper. The images above are the my three most recent drawings. Two are cross hatching with a micron penContinue reading “Creativity Keeping Me Steady”

Gouche and Crosshatching Creative Art

This week I have been playing around and creating botanical art in my new Windsor and Newton Watercolour visual diary. I also bought a pack of 18 Gouache paints and combined them with watercolour, watercolour pencils and a black pen to bring my back garden and front garden to life. Below are two of myContinue reading “Gouche and Crosshatching Creative Art”

Learning Photography

Last weekend I started learning the basics of my Canon DSLR which resulted in some photos that I loved. This week, I finished going through the Skillshare.com online course and put some of my new knowledge to use. Here is Miss Poppy suffering a long photo shoot session. I used the Av mode on myContinue reading “Learning Photography”

Learning a new creative skill

Last weekend, after doing some minimising of ‘stuff’ in my house, I wanted to do something creative and different. I wanted to learn a new skill. So, I decided it was time to take the DSLR Camera (my friend owns it and I borrow it from time to time – he’s good to me likeContinue reading “Learning a new creative skill”

Failure is not Failure – Reframing Mindset

As I read the above quote from Uriel’s Gift, I took a moment to look back on some of my own failures and how they have helped me to course correct, to learn, to grow and to take bold steps toward fulfilling my creative dreams. When I first allowed myself to dedicate time to beingContinue reading “Failure is not Failure – Reframing Mindset”