Category: watercolour

  • Illustration Friday – Teacher

    —

    by

    Liz

    It has been a long time since I’ve participated in Illustration Friday, (past efforts) but it is a great challenge to play in with some absolutely fantastic artists participating, so I’ve been looking for some inspiration in response to their challenges for some time now. I finally was determined enough to sit down and actually…

  • More watercolour and pen work

    —

    by

    Liz

    I have two sketches this week to submit for Sunday Sketches. The first is the second in the new series of ‘Life inspired’ scribbles I’m doing. The second sketch…well, I’ll let you make up your mind about that one.

  • Life inspired

    —

    by

    Liz

    For quite some time now I have been admiring pen and watercolourists like Tracey Fletcher King and Blue Chair Diary Illustrations and their techniques of mixing these two wonderful media. I have never attempted watercolour and pen together before and since my watercolour experience is minimal, I tend to find that part of the equation…

  • Illustration Friday & Sunday Sketches – Swept Away

    Illustration Friday & Sunday Sketches – Swept Away

    —

    by

    Liz

    I had several technical difficulties with this piece as it is a very new medium to me. I made some dumb-ass mistakes, but I’ve learnt and hopefully won’t do them again.

  • Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

    Sunday Sketches – blatant experiments with watercolour

    —

    by

    Liz

    I had nothing tonight for Sunday Sketches, but I did have about an hour to come up with something, despite being exhausted. I found myself playing. I didn’t know what to draw initially (though it is not like I don’t have a pile of unfinished works lying around, but hey, my thought capabilities at the…

  • Illustration Friday – A bicycle in 15 minutes

    Illustration Friday – A bicycle in 15 minutes

    —

    by

    Liz

    It has been a while since I’ve attempted an Illustration Friday topic, and in the past all my entries have been paintings. But yesterday I needed a prompt to try something out, and I happened to remember that this week’s IF was bicycle. So we have bikes.

  • Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

    Tools and Techniques – Watercolour lifting out and scrubbing

    —

    by

    Liz

    As a bonus, I started reading one of my watercolour painting books, and encountered the technique of lifting off. The book basically described how you can lift off paint by wetting the dried paint with a brush and then blotting with tissue. When I experimented with acrylic glazing, I wiped the glaze with a cloth…

  • My Creative Backyard – Creative Every Day

    My Creative Backyard – Creative Every Day

    —

    by

    Liz

    I spent tonight tidying up my art corner in order to fit the primed boards inside the house. Since we had children and lost the two spare rooms, everything that didn’t migrate to the rubbish bin ended up out in the hobby room. The hobby room which houses two computers, a display case, four bookcases,…

  • Sunday Sketches – Watercolour pencil becomes watercolour paint

    Sunday Sketches – Watercolour pencil becomes watercolour paint

    —

    by

    Liz

    When I came to do the red centres of the flowers (around the yellow eye), I had to switch from watercolour pencil to watercolour paint because as with my pastel sticks, my red watercolour pencils are annoyingly hard and often scratch the surface of the paper. Do any of you ever encounter this problem? I…