I couldn’t walk past a trio of sunflowers while out shopping for essential groceries. The bright yellow drew my eye and I whisked the sunflowers from the bucket and into my basket without a second of hesitation. I new the moment I saw their pretty faces that I wanted to draw them and paint themContinue reading “Sunflowers and the Arty Lifestyle”
Category Archives: Sketches
100 Portraits Progress Update
This week, I finished the Sktcy online course, ‘Faces with France: Wrinkles’. The portrait above is the art I worked on as I did the last class. It was great and it took me about two hours to do this piece. I’m only just beginning to understand how to create wrinkles on the face thatContinue reading “100 Portraits Progress Update”
Ramping up my Art Practice
In the last month I’ve ramped up my daily art practice. Sketching and using water colour paints in my sketch books most of the time. I’ve also been to another life drawing class, attended my first water colour painting class and today, I have just finished a Sktchy course on cross hatching. So if you’reContinue reading “Ramping up my Art Practice”
Portraiture
I’ve been studying portraiture with graphite in the last two week. It’s been so good to apply my art and observation skills to the page again. Below is my first animal portrait in graphite on acid free cartridge paper (my visual diary). It’s a side view of Miss Poppy and her fluffy ragdoll ruff. BelowContinue reading “Portraiture”
Intricate Line Drawing Class
It’s been a big artistic week for me. I’ve spent hours creating a new Skillshare course called, ‘Create Intricate Line Drawings’, and I’m super excited that I’ve managed to pull this off. I’ve had to learn how to create effective time lapse videos, create video content that flows and makes sense, draw and draw andContinue reading “Intricate Line Drawing Class”
Gesture Drawing the Figure & Watercolour Fun
Happy Easter to you all! I’ve spent my day drawing naked women. It’s an artist thing and it’s all about learning to create gesture drawings of the human figure. Each sketch below was completed in less than two minutes and are from models who provide images for artists to develop their skills. Here are theContinue reading “Gesture Drawing the Figure & Watercolour Fun”
Art, Writing and Scotland
I’m circling back around to my arty side this year. In recent years, I have taken a big break from painting and drawing. I needed a breather but now I have realised just how much I have missed my art practice. So, I got myself a moleskine art journal (my first one) and have startedContinue reading “Art, Writing and Scotland”
Dragon Sketching
I took some time out today to start sketching some dragons. It was a lot of fun to get back into my art and enjoy the process of creating on the page. Below are some photos of my first dragon portrait. It’s an idea that I’m developing and hope to create a far more intricateContinue reading “Dragon Sketching”
How to See & Draw using Negative Space
Well … I said I’d do it and I’ve done it. After a month of learning and multiple attempts at shooting video, I have finally created a short Skillshare art class called, How to See & Draw using Negative Space. It was quite a challenge to work out how to break down the steps ofContinue reading “How to See & Draw using Negative Space”
A little bit of skull action
Three skulls created with indian ink in my visual diary. Artist: Selina Shapland Created 15/3/2018 Tonight I came home and decided it was time to do some art. So I got online to my new favourite creative site and did a great class on Skillshare.com about how to draw skulls. It’s taught by this amazingContinue reading “A little bit of skull action”
The Creative Life 