Hi everyone! We’re back for theme 32, which tasked us with drawing a self portrait in an unflattering light – first thing in the morning! Su’s Piece Materials: fineliner Self portrait in the morning I wanted to use the negative white space of the paper as positive space. I also built up the crosshatching in the… Read More Week 32: Morning Self-Portrait
Hey everyone! So this week we had a theme suggested by a co-worker of Su, who asked us to create an image using pastel colours, floral imagery – think Marie Antoinette! As always, we love themes suggested by visitors of our blog so it was great fun to work on this one! Vicki’s Piece Materials:… Read More Week 31: Let them eat cake
Hey everyone! Week 30 got personal and asked us to dig deep down into our daily lives and expose the contents of our bags. What will they reveal about us as individuals and artists? Let’s take a look! Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolour, pencil, pen I feel like two things happened to me when I moved… Read More Week 30: The Contents of My Bag
Hello everyone! Week 29’s theme was a challenge to design 3 dresses inspired by different drinks. Let’s take a look at what we made.. Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolour, pencil I decided to base my drinks off of 3 different dress styles and theme the dress and the drink appropriately! My chosen dresses and drinks were: A… Read More Week 29: 3 Dresses inspired by Drinks
Hello everyone! It sure has been a while – thanks to the busy Christmas period and all it’s festivities, and me getting sick just in time for the New Year, I’ve certainly been slacking on the upload for which I am sorry! We’ve most definitely been drawing though, and if you’d like to see our… Read More Week 28: Favourite word in a Foreign Language
Hi everyone! The weeks seem to have flown by – and now we’re officially half way through the project! Week 26 was another reader suggestion which was to draw a Pokemon in a human form. Vicki’s Piece Materials: Coloured pencils, watercolours This is our second Pokemon inspired theme, each one encouraging something different and yet… Read More Week 26: Pokemon in Human form
Hello everyone – we’re almost half way into an entire year’s worth of themes – I’m pretty impressed with that and proud that we’ve stuck with the blog so far. Week 25 was a suggestion from a mutual friend of ours – she suggested movie stars from the Black and White film days! Let’s take… Read More Week 25: Black and White movie stars
Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting.. Everyone’s been pretty busy again lately including myself! But regardless of this business.. I’ve been doing my best to continue painting almost every day. Which includes this week’s post – a landscape! Vicki’s Piece Materials: Watercolours, Gouache Recently I treated myself to some new paints and colouring… Read More Week 23: Landscapes
Hey all! After last week’s challenge of drawing a movie scene, we moved onto a more traditional-based theme. This week the challenge was to pick an artist we are inspired by, and to imitate their style while creating our own original piece of work. Maryann’s Piece Materials: poster paint (the really sh*tty kind) For this… Read More Week 21: Imitating an Artist’s Style
Hey everyone! It feels good to be back and working hard on our weekly themes again. Now that the holidays are over, it’s certainly nice to have some more focus on productive things. This week, we worked on a theme which asked us to draw our Favourite Movie Scene. Since it is such a personal… Read More Week 20: Favourite Movie Scene
With Two Sugars, Please 