I started cutting small lino blocks of text back during the first pandemic lockdown in 2020. I intended to record 100 words and phrases that summed up my experience of the pandemic and lockdown, and work them into a three dimensional piece of art, but I found the process so depressing. It was too muchContinue reading “Proofing My Feelings.”
Category Archives: Pandemic
Teaching By Faking!
I work part-time for a national charity, teaching art to adults. I love it, it brings me such joy. One of the techniques I use occasionally in my painting class is copying great paintings, encouraging my students to understand how the great artists worked and how they achieved their effects. This latest one (it’s myContinue reading “Teaching By Faking!”
Recycle and Reuse.
I started painting during the early days of the pandemic lockdown after a break of decades (I’m a printmaker and scribbler). I joined the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and painted along with artist Ed Sumner weekly for about 18 months. I was pleased with most of the work I did but thereContinue reading “Recycle and Reuse.”
Playing With Drawings #5
I’m playing around with Adobe Photoshop and some of the charcoal drawings I did back in the early days of lockdown in 2020, when we just had an hour a day out of our houses. Back then, the drawings looked quite grim to me, in stark black and white on heavy textured Khadi paper, whichContinue reading “Playing With Drawings #5”
Playing With Drawings #4
I’m playing with Adobe Photoshop (Gradient Map) and some of the charcoal drawings I did during the first lockdown 2 years ago. The originals are in black and white using charcoal into a Khadi sketchbook. They were done one by one on the daily walk that Husb and I took through city parks when weContinue reading “Playing With Drawings #4”
Just Some Tweaking
I’ve done a little bit more work on this painted portrait I started a while back. It’s based on sketchbook drawings of my young relative. It’s been quite a learning experience as I’ve only started painting seriously since the Covid19 lockdown started – I’m a printmaker and scribbler. But I’m pleased with the way it’sContinue reading “Just Some Tweaking”
Playing With Drawings 3
I’m playing with Adobe Photoshop and some of the charcoal drawings I did during the first lockdown 2 years ago, using Gradient Map and a selection of Artistic Filters. The originals are in black and white and it’s expanding my imagination to change them into colour and try out some different effects. I suppose inContinue reading “Playing With Drawings 3”
Playing With Drawings 2
I’ve been looking at some of my sketchbooks and having a digital play with some of the drawings. I don’t normally do that, I usually scribble and then leave them, but lately I’ve been going back to them, seeing if they trigger any ideas. I take digital photos of all my sketches and I uploadedContinue reading “Playing With Drawings 2”
Painting Klimt – A Short Video
Back in the Great Lockdown of 2020, I painted along with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook every week, copying works by great artists. I’ve always loved this portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer and gave it a go. It took AGES Here’s a very short film of just a tiny bit ofContinue reading “Painting Klimt – A Short Video”
Playing With Drawings 1.
I’ve been looking at some of my sketchbooks and having a digital play with some of the drawings. I don’t normally do that, I usually scribble and then leave them, but lately I’ve been thinking about working from them, lots of other artists do. Trying Different Effects I take digital photos of all my sketchesContinue reading “Playing With Drawings 1.”
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