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...
The challenge this week is Redo. I chose the image I had done for Chaos for a couple of reasons. I enjoyed the process but was not happy with the end result. The oil pastel and Indian Ink etching is something I have wanted to experiment with. It was not a time...
Roll of 24, the challenge from 52Frames this week, refers back to film photography. The idea is to shoot 24 photos and then just pick one. I decided to go with photography this week, partly as I had an idea shooting Xmas lights, and partly as I was busy...
Wabi-sabi is this week's challenge for 52Frames. This is a Japanese concept that centres around acceptance of imperfection and impermanence. The extra challenge this week is abandoned buildings and I do have some suitable reference, but think they would...
Chaos is the challenge this week for 52Frames. I took some quite nice photos of fallen leaves; autumn chaos. Then, I was sitting in last night and there were fireworks everywhere. It seemed a shame to miss such an opportunity! This seemed an ideal opportunity...
One Light Source is the challenge from 52Frames this week. I couldnt really think what to do, especially as we had already had lamp, silhuoette and night. I was flipping though my photos in my project folder and came across several I had taken at the Natural...
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...
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...
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...
The challenge for 52Frames this week is Lamp. The challenge specifies that the lamp must appear in the image. I decided I would try and use one of my glass oil lamps, which oddly I had just put oil in for the first time in years! The background was a purple...