My 100 Days of Collage: Techniques and Inspirations from Days 6 & 7

I'm Continuing with my 100 days of collage project. This project is inspired by Froyle Davies. She has created the class, "Celebrate your creative self: Mixed media art class; 100 days of collage," on SkillShare. Days 6 and 7 of the course use two things that I love: layers and Gel plate printing! You can …

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100 Days of Collage: My Creative Journey

This week I have started a little personal project to explore the world of collage. I'm specifically exploring how I can incorporate collage techniques into mixed media artworks. To do this I am planning on making a collage a day for 100 days! I am using the course "Celebrate Your Creative self- mixed media art …

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Negative space leaf painting video

Head to my Youtube channel to watch my video on creating negative space leaf paintings. This technique is great for creating beautiful artworks in their own right, or fabulous mixed media background papers for collage and paper crafts. Below are some examples of negative space painting I've created and some of the ways in which …

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Life Drawing, Hush art group 22.11.23

Last night I went to Hush art group- a life drawing session based in the Ribble Valley, we had a fantastic model called Eve. The picture above is a painting/drawing I completed in blue and red acrylic inks, this was a 30-minute pose. Here are a few of my sketches from that drawing session: Two …

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Autumnal Leaf Freebie!

Creating the leaf images at Clitheroe Castle on the Art Walk Clitheroe At my artist's residency at Clitheroe Castle Museum for the Art Walk Clitheroe I made two leaf artworks using collage, watercolour, gouache, acrylic paint pens, and acrylic paints. I have since turned these pictures into the cards pictured below, you can see how …

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Christmas themed sketchbook Workshop!

Hi there! Today I had great fun running an all-day, Christmas themed, sketchbook making workshop for the fabulous Blackburn Artists' Society. In today's workshop, I showed the Blackburn Artists how to make three different sketchbooks using only one sheet of paper in each. We made the pages of the books using different paper folding techniques …

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