Connections

 The January Challenge day 3 Connections

This was a tricky prompt to think about. Again I produced a mind map of my thoughts about connections. How I communicate my art, what I do now and how I could do that better. 

This year I brought a Studio level membership for the Painters-online forum so I can access the archive of magazines and I hope to find inspiration and find new painting knowledge. I hope to create new blog posts and videos of my learning to connect with you!

I’ve also decided to talk to more artists that I like, and to discuss ideas and to find out how they became successful. 

below is a sketch
of my son playing on his new Christmas present of an xbox…he is making connections all the time. 

#64MillionArtists #TheJanuaryChallenge #day3

This is a link to my painters-online profile page 

New Year New Inspiration

I joined the January Challenge 2022 this year. I got really stuck into the day 2 prompt of ‘Why I love…’ And this made me really think about my creative process. 

I love going to Bournemouth, when we visit we do as many things as possible and some are the same things that we do over and over. And it got me thinking about my creative process. What do I repeat, why do I repeat it? I produce the same types of images and use mainly watercolour because it's comfortable. I

To shake things up I decided to think about Bournemouth in a different way and mind-map my way through my thought process. 

This was different for me as I always think in images but the words began to associate themselves with pictures and I found myself on google looking for pictures. 

I have attached the mind map and the collage work that I produced. It really got me thinking in a different way and I can see numerous starting points for paintings…

Doodlewash November 2021

 In response to pie! A quick pumpkin pie doodle...

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Doodlewash November

Welcome to another response to Doodlewash month! I love the mindfulness nature of drawing and creating images. Doodlewash prompts for November look very challenging...

Lets start with Acorn...This is my simple response!

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Charcoal Sketching

 There is something very tactile about charcoal, and messy. It takes you back to school days and if you are brave and don't mind a bit of mess then it's an ideal sketching tool. 

In this intro video I show the basics of using charcoal. 

Sketch a day in April

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Work in Progress

 Hi. This is a series of images of my new process to mix pastel with Ink. I'm loving the act of creating dark passages of ink and then overlaying pastel. Let me know what you think! Have you had experimented with this method? Are there any pit falls I should be aware of (I must remember to let the ink dry before erasing the pencil lines!).