by Mel | Mar 31, 2016 | Cool stuff, Fave things, Making stuff, Random thoughts
I’ve been doing an online course with Jane Blundell for the last few months. Jane is a brilliant watercolour artist as well as a font of all knowledge when it comes to watercolour paints and colour mixing. Because the course is online, I do my homework and...
by Mel | Mar 17, 2016 | Life, Making stuff, Random thoughts
I’m about halfway through a watercolour class which I’m doing online which is always fun. Actually yesterday was the two year anniversary of the very first watercolour class I ever took. I still feel like a newbie at this art stuff but it’s been a...
by Mel | Oct 9, 2015 | Fave things
For something different, some art supply geeking. For most of my watercolours I use some pen for line work, either drawing the lines before the paint or using them afterwards to add definition. Because I want the lines to stay put, the inks I default to are waterproof...
by Mel | Aug 28, 2015 | Making stuff
Between travelling and getting over jetlag and conferences and revisions and trying to finish a book, there hasn’t been much arty stuff happening round here lately. Starting a new watercolour course next week which should rectify that but here’s a video of...
by Mel | Jun 19, 2015 | Cool stuff, Life, Making stuff
Early in May I blogged about doing a draw/paint every day in May challenge. Well, I’m happy to report that I did make it the full 31 days. It was kind of fun to have to come up with something that matched the prompt each day and sometimes have to dash out...
