Peace is this week's challenge from 52Frames. It's quite a good brief, but most things I thought of were either sunsets, water or both! As we have just done water I had to think again. I trawled through lots of albums. I had a picture in mind but when I found...
52Frames set the challenge of Water this week, and I had thought of doing something completely different, but ended up doing this seascape in watercolour. I have been watching the programmes about the Rolling Stones and really liked the tour sketch books done...
52Frames set a challenge of night photography this week. This gave me a chance to use another photo reference I have had sitting around. A year or so ago I took some photos, with the ipad, of my neighbours house. The full moon and the house were behind the...
52frames this week set the challenge of Choose a Colour. I have been picking little bunches of sweet peas from my garden for a few weeks and wanted to include them. Because I did not have many flowers I needed a vase with a tiny neck. I found this little bottle...
The challenge this week for 52Frames is Single Focal Point. The brief suggests you should draw the viewer's eye to one part of the picture, either with light, leading lines, minimalism or depth of field My picture is from another photo in my ideas folder and I...
Managed to get some drawing out at Biddulph Grange with friends last week. Did a bit to the greenery at home but mostly completed sitting out. It was quite a busy day and quite narrow paths so not easy to find somehwere to sit. I enoyed doing the rocks and the...
The challenge for 52Frames this week is Common Object. I had in my mind that I would do my paint brushes and/or tubes of paint. In the end I did some tins of printing ink and a palette knife. I chose to use oil pastel. Visually I would say this is the least...
This is a great challenge from 52Frames. I had lots of idea for Silhouette but settled on some photos I took a few years ago of the houses on the other side of the street as the moon was coming up. It works well in the format of my book and is another image...
This week's challenge is Negative Space. For photographers this is about creating empty space to emphasise the main subject. In art however the artist draws the spaces around the image. This technique can produce some fascinating images as well as more abstract...
The challenge from 52Frames this week is Pattern with an extra challenge of Pattern in Nature. I liked this as a challenge and had thought I might use photos of some stones I had found on the beach in Orkney. When I came to look at them though I felt they would...