I believe it is vitally important to take time to be creative. For me, it is how I allow my brain time to unravel the big issues I am facing and most importantly, it is how I de-stress and manage to quiet anxious thoughts and feelings. Drawing, painting and focusing on my creative life throughContinue reading “Developing an eye for values”
Category Archives: Sktchy
Sketching and Portrait Practice
My drawing practice has been taking twists and turns. I’m still working through my 100 portraits and practicing the human face using various techniques (as you can see from my digital and pen portraits below), but I’ve also been fascinated by lions lately and above you can see three of the studies I’ve been workingContinue reading “Sketching and Portrait Practice”
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”
Portraits & Botanical Drawings
I’ve been keeping-on-keeping-on with my portrait practice. Last week I hit portrait 65 of 100 of my portrait practice challenge. I’m happy to say that my ability to see what is in front of me and draw that is improving. This means I am becoming much better at drawing portraits that have a likeness toContinue reading “Portraits & Botanical Drawings”
Arty fun has been had
In recent weeks, I have been diving deeper into my art practice. My writing brain is having a holiday from the pressure of editing my novel. I’ve felt a bit burnt out with my writing lately and needed to give myself permission to do something fun where I have no pressure to be at publicationContinue reading “Arty fun has been had”
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”
Art Practice this week
This week I have been diving deeper into portraits, busy developing my observation skills by focusing on drawing and painting fruit and vegetable compositions and I have also played around with creative doodling in my visual diary. Here’s my week in art. The above portraits are the start of my 100 portrait practice challenge whichContinue reading “Art Practice this week”
The Creative Life 