Contours in nature Following on from the contours in nature mood board, we’re now exploring the design potential in this topographic trend! First up is a painting of an agate slice I did that I’m currently reworking into a product range. Although not strictly a landscape contour, I love the topography lines that are […]
Read More
Decorative feather designs In the last post we dived into the decorative feather trend for inspiration and started exploring how this theme can be applied in different ways. Today I’m sharing a little bit of my interpretation for decorative feathers – from initial sketches to final designs: Want to see more decorative feather […]
Read More
Pencil sketch of an eye This weekend I did a 20 minute pencil sketch of an eye. It’s been a while since I sketched so was really pleased with the outcome. It was fun to put pencil to paper – I have been wanting to do it for so long and although I didn’t have […]
Read More
I have been to Dr Sketchy’s three times now and it is always so much fun. Life drawing combined with burlesque – mental but it works! I have been lax with my 52 week challenge (two months off, pretty bad actually) so maybe it will now be a 44 week challenge instead.. Dr Sketchy’s was […]
Read More
So last week I went life drawing which was my drawing number two of 52 week challenge. I haven’t been life drawing for a while so was so nice to go again. Plus the teacher made us do lots of different tasks such as continuous line drawing, drawing with my left hand (I am right […]
Read More
One of my goals for 2013 is to take on a 52 week drawing challenge – essentially a drawing a week for the whole year! My first one was last week. I knew when I undertook this challenge that I could not be hard on myself, some weeks my drawings would be terrible but that […]
Read More
Yesterday I posted about an old game I used to play called happy families. I wanted to create a simple drawing from this based on the house illustration on the back. When I started with this idea I kept drawing windows using continuos line. It was very simple but for some reason I was drawn […]
Read More
I have started a scrap booking course that I found through one of my favourite blogs A Beautiful Mess. It is an e-course which allows you to art journal all year with 52 different projects. I thought it would be a fun thing to do and be a little extra inspiration through out the year. […]
Read More