art | color | inspiration
Watching the Sun Set
After a busy week and a weekend workshop teaching – its time to kick back and watch the sun set.
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art | color | painting | watercolors
5 Tips for Mixing Watercolour Browns
Browns and greens are watercolour beginners two main challenges. But with these 5 tips you can master mixing browns! 5 Problem solving tips for browns that have somehow gone awry: 1. If Brown has gone too muddy, dense and thick, wipe half the mix away then add water to it and test on […]
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art | color | inspiration | photography
Snail Nestled In Fallen Leaves
I love leaves. All sorts of leaves – scarlet, yellow spring green, fallen leaves, skeleton leaves. I do not like snails! Yet here I am featuring a snail in my art post. How did this happen? I was in my garden having a quiet morning amble, a little zen, yoga, relaxation, enjoying the refreshing cool […]
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art | color | photography
Indigo, Cobalt Teal, Yellow Green Vase
One of my favourite vases caught my eye today. Its deep indigo, ultramarine, cobalt teal, yellow green seemed to call out to me to look, to pay attention. The vase had been tucked away behind many of my art supplies for a number of months, but today I saw it with new eyes. As I […]
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acrylics | art | color | inspiration
Banish Boring Brushstrokes: Part 2
The Masters knew. Make every brush stroke count. Each should sing! It should be easy, painting a single brushstroke onto a canvas creating a mark that is luminous and clean, fresh and lively – not boring! Full of texture, color and of course, with a good tonal range. That doesn’t sound too difficult, but it is […]
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acrylics | art | beginners paintings | color | inspiration
3 Tips to Banish Boring Brushstrokes
I want powerful, dynamic brushstrokes! I want them lively, not boring. And, I want 1 brushstroke to do the job of 20……. Its not that I’m slacking off, I tell myself I’m ‘efficient.’ I’d like my time, effort and energy to be optimised to the maximum possible. You too? I thought so! Let me tell you […]
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Zen of Art: Taming the Dragon Perfectionism
Zen of Art. How to tame the Dragon called Perfectionism? In search of perfection. A tantalising empty promise. An Illusion. “How Good” does my art have to be, before I’m satisfied? When will I be content and not frustrated? What does it actually take? And hey! why should I bother thinking about this anyway?! […]
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5 Things To Know About Colour
Colour – Its all about colour! Here’s 5 easy things that usually help me to get a better painting. It really doesn’t matter if I’m painting in acrylics, oils, watercolours either! 1. Colour creates the mood I choose the kind of mood and atmosphere I want, then select the colours that will enhance and ‘set […]
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art | color | inspiration | photography
Scarlet Red Flowers: Photographs
Stunning scarlet red flowers create powerful and dramatic photographs with their fiery colour displays. Flame tree blossoms, poppies, roses and grevillia provide lovely eye treats with their colours bursting into life full of red delicious warmth and vitality! Red is a powerhouse colour; strong, dominant, energetic, lively and full of heat. As I have mentioned in […]
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art | color | inspiration
The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line is about courage and persistence, in all walks of life. It relates to taking risks, be braving and having faith you can overcome the odds.