One of the things I have really enjoyed this year is creating collaborative art works. During a recent Thursday Art Club session we had a fantastic time creating these fabulously fungal collaborative drawings! The idea for the session came from a video I had seen on Instagram a while ago by Jenny Muncaster which you …
Continue reading A Collaborative Magical Mushroom Adventure!
Over the past few weeks in my life drawing groups at Hush Art Group in Clitheroe and Life Drawing Blackburn I have been experimenting with layering figures on top of each other and using negative space to create these graphic images- the drawings can be turned in different directions and as you look different figures …
This morning we had a visit from a lovely nurse from the community nurse team donning her PPE. She is the first person who has been in our house (apart from us obviously) for over two months now! Unfortunately for Joseph it wasn't a social call, she was here to do his annual review blood …
Continue reading There’s something fishy going on around here…
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
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
Mushroom Moon Designs 