Month: April 2012

  • J is for Jewels

    J is for Jewels

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    Liz

    Jewels, glass beads, rhinestones or whatever you would like to call little bits of shiny glass, they are something I’ve had a recent interest in gluing to my artwork. It started with a handmade book I made for my eldest daughter.

  • I is for Inktense

    I is for Inktense

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    Liz

    Now the key to these fantabulous pencils is that while they act like watercolour pencils for the most part, once they are dry they are not watersoluble – like waterproof ink. This may sound like a small difference, but it isn’t. Because they dry waterproof, you can go over and over and over your piece…

  • H is for Happy

    H is for Happy

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    Liz

    And Happy is exactly what I’ve been for the majority of this long weekend 😀 I’ve been merrily arting and blogging away on various projects and it has been great fun. A couple of days ago I posted G is for Graffiti where I mentioned my first art journal page. It was based on street…

  • G is for Graffiti

    G is for Graffiti

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    Liz

    I had some great fun yesterday. Now considering the title of this post, you might wonder what I have been up to. But no, I’m far too much of a goody-two-shoes to actually go out and graffiti anything. But what I can do is a piece of artwork in the graffiti style…well, as close as…

  • F is for Friday

    F is for Friday

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    Liz

    Yes, F is for Friday, but not just any Friday, but Paint Party Friday! Every week on a Friday, artists from all over get together at the Paint Party Friday blog and share their painting accomplishments for that week. It is fantabulously hosted by Eva and Kristin, two avid paint enthusiasts who provide the hard…

  • E is for Emboss

    E is for Emboss

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    Liz

    I saw the word ’emboss’ and thought, hey, I bought some embossing tools awhile back. I think I’ll have a play.

  • D is for Digital Art

    D is for Digital Art

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    Liz

    The first ‘modern’ type computer I encountered was Windows 3.1 machine during an Introduction to Graphic Design course. I was 19 . We were using MS Paint, if I recall correctly, to design and build a logo. Despite its basic nature, I fell in love with it immediately.

  • C is for Cartoon

    C is for Cartoon

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    Liz

    When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be a cartoonist. Nowadays when I say what I’ve always wanted to be it’s ‘an artist’, but back before and around the age of ten, it was ‘a cartoonist’.

  • B is for Butterfly – Exploration – Butterfly paintings

    B is for Butterfly – Exploration – Butterfly paintings

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    Liz

    Do you remember those fun paintings we all did as a kid in school – blob some paint on a piece of paper then fold it over, rub, and open it up to see some pretty butterfly shaped random compostitions? Well, these are what I’m calling butterfly paintings. I used to love them as a…

  • A is for Acrylic – Exploration – Self-leveling gel

    A is for Acrylic – Exploration – Self-leveling gel

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    Liz

    This is a technique for creating marbled/semi-blended backgrounds (mostly) on canvas that takes advantage of the slight three-dimensionality of self-leveling gel and its ability to semiblend colour and catch it in mid-motion.