Adding texture to drawings.
In recent drawing exercises, I wanted to add some dimension and texture to portraits. This is mostly done using a variety of line shape, line size including length and thickness. We can also use line in shadowing areas or changing the direction of the sh ...
Water and Wood Textures
Discussion watercolor techniques for rendering water and wood textures.
Project Themes – visiting the past
"Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane." -- Doug Larson Goings On I'm a little behind on my posting this month. Not only have I been focusing on the art journal classes I've been taking, but Mike (my husband) ...
Torn paper collage with paint
"Remain open, flexible, curious" - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book For the art class project this week for #wanderlust2021, the topic was to create a torn paper collage with paint. We could put paint down first and add torn paper ...
Art goals for 2021
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.--Charles Dickens So on my last blog I mentioned I was taking a year-long series of art classes called #wanderlust2021adven ...
Advent Art Journal Project
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." --James Stephens Front Page Advent Art Journal I have signed up for a years worth of online art classes through the website #Everything-Art.com. It is called Wanderlust 2021. Every week the ...