These two drypoint etchings were created using a dry point mark making tool similar to a think needle. I also indented using a hammer and nail, and used sanding paper; a sewing tracing tool and a small hand-held battery Dremel to mark the hard plastic sheet I was using. Christmas Creek in Beaudesert holds wonderful…
Experimenting with screen printing, I found this technique initially very fraught with problems, I made so many really bad prints but when I worked out the paint consistency and the paper quality and the right masking tape to use plus how to register the paper- the process flowed better….
Painting from observation- This exercise involved using painting to observe objects in space. For the view finder exercise I chose to complete this series of 6 scenes using the approach of painting in the shapes that are formed using a variety of different approaches….
This exercise took a single image which was inverted five times, each inversion was traced to produce an image of multiple shapes possibilities. I only did this exercise one time and the results are shown in this image. I think this could be improved in many ways, such as a different outline placement and of…
I did the exercises using Black/Grey/White/Single Colour Under Painting and then just kept experimenting with portraiture because I just got on a roll and enjoyed the way a painting freed up when I wasn’t tracing the image. Even the dogs weren’t safe……I played with watercolours to do them, just because I thought that it would…
Finding out more about colour theory and playing with colours was good fun. I really enjoyed this practical combination of art and science that can be used to determine what colours look good together. The colour wheel is the basis of colour theory, because it shows the relationship between colours. The general information about how colour…
