Gel and watercolour illustrations 😱

It’s been a while! In that time, I started a drawing and painting class at a local community centre and have been picking up a few excellent tips. I LOVE the effect of these drawings. The lines are drawn with a black gel pen on watercolour paper, and then a small amount of water is […]

Dark paper and Dragons

I treated myself to some new sketching pencils at the weekend, and the set included a white pencil as well as some in different shades of brown. This, along with the giant stack of coloured craft paper that’s been sitting in our office since our wedding, inspired me to try something a little different – […]

Drawing people…

This weekend, I spent my saturday wandering around comic con in London, spending waaaaaaay too much money on independent comics which are my number one weakness. The best thing about such events is that you get a chance to chat with the artists/illustrators and I left feeling sky high on how lovely everyone was, as […]

Fixated on flowers

Yes, another flowers post. I really like drawing them! This time hand-drawn with coloured pencils and outlined in one of my new fine liners. As well as a whole flower top and leaf, I wanted to try drawing an individual petal and ended up with this feeling it was blowing in the breeze. If I […]

Vases and finding your creative style

I painted/drew these vases of flowers as part of a project for a class on Skillshare (Find Your Creative Style: An Exploration Through Floral Techniques by the wonderful Peggy Dean). I was surprised how much I loved trying something slightly different – I’ve been experimenting with watercolours and black brush pen with little attention to […]

Digital doodles – flowers

This week, I was inspired by the beautiful Scottish spring to doodle some flowers and plants. I’ve always enjoyed drawing flowers – at some point, I have plans to try and make a printable with floral decorations! These digital drawings are a little primitive, with the colours simply made less opaque and laid over the […]

Sketches 3

With a bit of spare time on my hands yesterday, I set out to recreate a photo I love of my very cheeky looking niece – my brother describes the photo as “hoodlum on a wall”. I spent around an hour getting this far, and really want to try adding to it (including some colour) […]

Copper Jewellery

Following my first attempts at jewellery stamping a few weeks ago, I’ve put some new techniques into practice – buffing the copper itself, making the lettering stand out with darker colouring. This first pic is my first complete piece of jewellery! 🙂 The second is a gorgeous apple charm, waiting for me to find a […]

Button it!

Yesterday, my husband and I went to the engagement party of some friends. Instead of buying a card off the shelf, I dusted off some of my old blank greetings cards and crafty bits and made them this! There was a stage when I was obsessed with putting buttons on everything (including the bedside lampshades […]

Sketchable

Last weekend, I decided it was time to replace my five year old laptop with a new one. For a while now, I’ve had my eye on a Microsoft surface pro – it’s a laptop and a tablet at the same time, and had great reviews for drawing. I LOVE IT. I’ve been enjoying sitting […]