Here are some pictures I have been working on in my own time at home. I have really been trying to be more accurate with my drawing and have used a lot of pencil and pencil crayons, a medium which I always shied away from before. The coloured pencil pictures take around 4-6 hours to …
Over the past few months I have been attending the Blackburn Artists society on Thursday Evenings. Each week we are given a "theme" to work with from chickens to sky scrapers and we've recently been out on location drawing the amateur dramatics society during a live dress rehearsal! I've really loved attending Blackburn artists society …
Continue reading What I’ve been up to PART 2: Blackburn Artists society
Over the past few months things have been very quiet on the blog, so thought I'd do a series of posts updating what I have been doing behind the scenes. I have been focusing on improving my drawing skills over the past few months and have been attending the "Ribble Valley Urban sketchers" and "Blackburn …
Continue reading What I’ve been up to PART 1: Urban Sketching
This week I have been busy making these super cute miniature junk journals! Just the right size to pop in your pocket, slip into your handbag or hide under your pillow! These mini treasures measure 13 cm x 8 cm and average around 34 pages. Each journal consists of a soft back cover with pocket …
Continue reading Mini Junk Journal- super cute stocking fillers!
This beautiful Hard backed journal has a pink cover with butterfly motif and heart shaped gem decoration that catches the light. It has a butterfly ribbon on the spine which doubles as a book mark. Throughout the book the butterfly theme continues along with maps, making this journal perfect for a travel journal, or as …
I had some exciting news this week, I have been one of six artists selected to have a table at the Three Day Winter Art Fair at the Platform Gallery in Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley! This is a wonderful opportunity for me to show off my work, meet other artists and art lovers and …
Last week I went to an art course at Barton Grange in Lancashire. Barton Grange is a huge Garden centre that has amazing Christmas Displays and has recently expanded to include a cinema, bowling alley, miniature golf course and a curling stadium. Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area! The course I …
Continue reading Autumn leaves and berries in water colour at Barton Grange
This week I made these three hand drawn and hand painted original Christmas cards with coordinating gift tags! Take a look at description below- these items are available to purchase with postage to the UK included! If you are interested in having some Christmas cards, other greetings cards, junk journals or original art works custom …
Paper crafting, card making, painting, knitting and all things creative run in our family. I've been very lucky to receive crafty genes from my Mum, who also received crafty genes from her mother, my Nan, Margaret Brice. Unfortunately Margaret passed away at Christmas last year. But her Crafting and creativity lives on in her children …
Did you know that I have a range of Christmas Designs on Redbubble? On my Redbubble site you can buy my Christmas Designs on all sorts of items from Bed Spreads to leggings, phone cases to bath mats! My most popular Christmas Designs so far have been this Cheeky Robin... He is a water …
Mushroom Moon Designs 