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Thursday, 13 October 2011
Sketchbook 5: Cloud Nein
Link of the Day: One does not simply...
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Congratulations Toby and Angel!
Yesterday my friends Angel and Toby got married in Wood Green. This was mine and Laura's present to them - we decided on a coat of arms. Angel is known as Angel Moon, hence the moon and the wings and halo. Toby has a question he likes people to answer the first time he meets them: Who would win in a fight between a cheesecake and a snake? Hence the cheesecake and the snake.
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Saturday, 8 October 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Sketchbook 5: Lauren Gitis
My drama school course starts in an hour. A proper (part time) drama school course. Hooray!
Link of the Day: Dinosaurs!
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
Paintings!
Back in January I painted my first ever canvas. It was for Laura's birthday (or was it Harold?), and it was the second picture I ever painted for her. I used the Pip Seymour acrylic paints I bought from Atlantis Art off Brick Lane after I attended a workshop back in November last year.
Colours have always scared me a bit, because I habitually start off with a line drawing. And if I like the line drawing enough to want to colour it in, then I'll like it enough to be scared of ruining it by trying to colour it in.
Doing a painting onto canvas feels a bit different though - you don't (or *I* don't, anyway) start off with line drawing, and if you balls a bit up you can paint over it again later.
Here it is in progress:
![Dragon [in progress]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6176/6203182079_ff9be7a1cb_m.jpg)
![Dragon [in progress 2]](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6151/6203182725_409d1084d4_m.jpg)
...and here's the finished product:
I didn't paint again on canvas until after we moved into our lovely flat in August. Laura's a big fan of frogs so I had a couple of frog-based ideas I thought might be quite nice. Then Laura and her Dad inspired this idea, which I painted about 3 or 4 weeks ago:
It's not perfect and I'm still working out what I can produce, but I'm very pleased with what I've done so far. I'm currently working on a third painting (not featuring Laura) and then I'm going to do one based on all the foxes who seem to spend all day sunbathing in our back garden:
At some point I'm going to attempt doing a stormy sea - these acrylics are lovely to use and although I'm watering them down quite a lot at the moment to get a smooth finish, they're nice and thick and I'm sure I could get some great textures - if I could just figure out how...
Oh, and I will be making these available (along with some other things) on a print-on-demand greetings card site.
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Colours have always scared me a bit, because I habitually start off with a line drawing. And if I like the line drawing enough to want to colour it in, then I'll like it enough to be scared of ruining it by trying to colour it in.
Doing a painting onto canvas feels a bit different though - you don't (or *I* don't, anyway) start off with line drawing, and if you balls a bit up you can paint over it again later.
Here it is in progress:
...and here's the finished product:
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| Laura In The Sky With Dragon |
I didn't paint again on canvas until after we moved into our lovely flat in August. Laura's a big fan of frogs so I had a couple of frog-based ideas I thought might be quite nice. Then Laura and her Dad inspired this idea, which I painted about 3 or 4 weeks ago:
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| The Princess & The Frog (yes, I am the frog) |
It's not perfect and I'm still working out what I can produce, but I'm very pleased with what I've done so far. I'm currently working on a third painting (not featuring Laura) and then I'm going to do one based on all the foxes who seem to spend all day sunbathing in our back garden:
At some point I'm going to attempt doing a stormy sea - these acrylics are lovely to use and although I'm watering them down quite a lot at the moment to get a smooth finish, they're nice and thick and I'm sure I could get some great textures - if I could just figure out how...
Oh, and I will be making these available (along with some other things) on a print-on-demand greetings card site.
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
The Pen Who Cried
Epilogue To The Pen Who Cried
I wrote this on a Monday
And I guess it served me right
That my pen leaked on the Tuesday
In my trouser pocket on the right.
(My leg is still a little bit blue.)
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
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