Not long back from a fabulous 3 weeks in South Africa. Very pleased with myself as I managed to do 5 little drawings. I took my lovely little Hahnemühle water colour book and a new Rosemary travel brush, that I got for my birthday, along with a small set of...
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Drawing
I just had a lovely weekend in Liverpool, the city where I went to University. I wandered around old and new places and visited the Metropolitan Cathedral, where I did some drawing. The cathedral was somewhere I used to go and sit and the inside is truly...
A Weekend of Art at Bullclough Art School
I have just done 3 days of painting at Bullclough Art School . Earlier in the year I decided I wanted to learn something new and have been interested in trying oils. I signed up for a course at Bullclough with a tutor called Tom Voyce. It was excellent. The...
Lino 3
Well at last I have cut another Lino for the series. I like the result very much, it may still have a bit of editing but for now I will leave it alone and get on and plan the next one. I am not sure why it took so long, it has been half done for ages. Anyway I...
Lino 2
This is the second pair of Lino cuts of la Gomera. I really like the overlay of these especially after clearing a bit more background. This pair is definitely ready to try on higher quality paper with some colour on the background. I had a little play the other...
Lino
I have been messing about with Lino, trying to find some inspiration. On my hols last year in La Gomera I got a bit obsessed by shadows on the walls and thought I might be able to do something with them. A couple of months ago decided I had better start...
Could it be more Birds?
I have been having a go at a technique, involving pyrography, that was described in my art magazine. I thought it looked interesting and the example demonstrated was a bird that I really liked. I asked for a Dremel versatip for xmas, as dedicated pyrography...
New Shop
Well I don't know how my poor Blog got so neglected. I did well for a bit and then somehow it fell off my radar. Anyway here I am again on the off chance that anybody ever reads this. I have an online shop on Folksy. You can see it on the home page and you just...
01625 Gallery
Lucie from the dolls house gallery ( www.thedollshouseartgallery.co.uk) has created a new exhibition in Macclesfield town centre. Outside the visitor information centre there are two phone boxes, which for sometime have hosted art works. This month Lucie...
More Birds!!
How surprising that I have done another bird drawing! I haven't done much since march, not sure why. I recently had a holiday in Devon and found myself at the end of a very wet day at Paignton Zoo. The weather was so bad that only about ten of us were there. I...