A look inside the artist’s sketchbook exploring the symbolic interpretations of birds and vessels. Mixed media artwork featuring gel plate printing, collage, pastel and conte crayons.
Tag: sketchbook
Mini Collage a day part 4
Here is a quick catch up of my Mini Collage a day challenge. At the end of the week I seemed to be drawn to bright, warm colours such as reds, pinks and oranges, as well as imagery like fruit and flowers. At the beginning of the week I experimented further with using text in …
Sketchbook Explorations: Vessels
Recently I have been interested in exploring vessels in my art work. Here is a sneak peek into my sketchbook to see some of the ideas I have been playing with. I have a dedicated vessels sketchbook that I have been working in for a few months to collect ideas. Enjoy!
Capturing everyday joy
This week I focused on my word of the year RECEIVE by honing in on small moments of joy. This included moments of joy I'd created for myself as well as moments that occurred naturally in my environment. One of those sparks of joy that I received this week was the simple act of buying …
Collaborative Sketchbook
I am very excited to be taking part in a collaborative art challenge with my fellow artists at the Thursday Art Club. Together we are filling a collaborative sketchbook. The process is that an artist (in this case me) starts the sketch book with a two page spread, the book is then passed on to …
25 blog posts in 2025 plus some life drawings
At the start of this year I set myself a few challenges such as "read 25 books in 2025" and "paint 25 paintings in 2025". The other challenge I set myself was to write 25 blog posts in 2025 and you are now reading my 25th! This has been a difficult challenge for me. I …
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There’s something fishy going on around here…
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 …
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Hand studies #art #watercolour #painting #sketchbook
You can purchase my hand sketches design at my Redbubble shop HERE Today I thought I'd share with you some of the sketches I have completed this morning. Recently I signed up to enter a competition called Create Longridge in which budding artists compete for a £2000 prize by spending all day painting in …
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Mushroom Moon Designs 