The challenge set for this week is Everything in Focus! For photographers this is an excercise in depth of field. If you create a drawn image you already select how much of your image is in focus. I was not sure how to tackle this, then my friend suggested...
The challenge put by 52Frames this week was abstract. This is, in theory, almost easier in art than photography. When I was in Pembrokshire with friends a couple of years ago, I took some photos of interesting rock formations. I thought they would work...
The challenge from 52Frames for the first week in May is Flat Lay. I knew what I wanted to do for this and used some more of my dad's spanners to create an image. I then drew them out and planned to cut out the shapes and create stencils. I hoped to stencil them onto...
It seems a lifetime ago but, before lockdown, a friend and I were working on a joint project about our dads. I had started thinking about making some books to display, each one related to a different apect of my memory of him and my first thought had been his garage...
I have been doing some stock taking recently, partly for a print fair and partly to sort out what I have. There are a number of things I was pleased with at the time I completed them, but now are in need of a remake. One of these is my butterfly banner. Although the...
Did this little cat for my friend from the knitting book for cats - Best in Show. I love these cats and have actually done two others as well. A little white kitten for a friends child, so no pipe cleaners, and a grey one to go with a little knitted jacket. They are...
Productive part of an afternoon spent with drawing partner in crime painting a brick for the Macclesfield Brick Project. This is a really fun community project which seems to have been enthusiastically embraced by many people. The end result is fantastic as can be...
Was looking for something else and found this artist featured in the Silverdale & Arnside Arts trail. Her name is Debbie Copely and this is her web address: http://debbiesshed.com/ There are some beautiful birds as well. I think it is really lovely...
Found this in the BMJ. Not sure what it has to with illustration but think it is great. About bootleg music during the cold war era in the Soviet Union. X-ray plates were used and the grooves cut into the disc. They were called 'bones" or "ribs".