Creating a Cubist-Inspired Acrylic Painting: From Reference Photos to Finished Piece There’s something deeply rewarding about exploring new styles and techniques. In the past few years I have embarked on a journey to create Cubist-inspired art works. I'm enjoying exploring cubism through landscape, figure painting and still life. I’m excited to share the process of …
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Exploring Geometric and Organic Shapes in Collage
Welcome to 2025! I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! Are you well rested ready for a new year filled with creativity and collage!? I'm on week 8 of the 100 days of collage skill share course. It is run by Froyle Davies and you can find out more HERE. This takes us up …
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A selection of recent life drawings
Here is a collection of some of my recent life drawings. If you would like to see more of my life drawings please head to my Instagram page HERE. I try to attend a life drawing session at least once a week. I go to Hush Life Drawing in Clitheroe or to Life Drawing Blackburn. …
Exploring Narrative Techniques in Collage Art
Hello and welcome back to the 100 days of collage challenge! I am undertaking the 100 Days of collage course on Skillshare run by Froyle Davies. You can join the course here! In this week's class, we explored using text in our work to give our collages narrative. Day 43: Crafting Dynamic Storytelling In this …
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Week 6: Exploring Mixed Media techniques in 100 Days of Collage
Can you believe it? We have reached day 42 of 100 days of collage?! If you'd like to do your own 100 days of collage why not join the Skill Share class HERE. I have filled one art journal and have started a fresh new journal this week! Day 36: Celestial Skies In this class …
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Exploring Steampunk and Surreal Collage Art
It's week 5 of the 100 days of collage course! ( You can find it HERE). We have been exploring real and imagined worlds! This week was fun to try something different and explore adding narrative to our collages. Day 29: Steampunk Fantasy On day 29 we were tasked to craft a steampunk collage! Steampunk …
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Week 4: Creative Texture Projects in Collage
I am now on to week 4 of the 100 Days of Collage class. You can find the class HERE. It is a skill-share class run by Froyle Davies. This week I have been experimenting with texture. For this challenge we looked at using different ways to create texture in our collages. We used fabric, …
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100 Days of Collage: Week Three Highlights
Week three of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week's focus was Mixed Media Mastery! For Day 15 our prompt was to create a mixed-media collage that explored the beauty of nature. We were encouraged to incorporate elements like leaves, flowers, or twigs. We created our …
Days 8-14 of my 100 days of collage challenge!
Week two of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week focuses on found objects! Found objects My collage on day 8! The challenge was to find and include as many found items as possible in my collage. I included vintage items like a vintage stamp, a …
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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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