Recent Posts Tagged With 'mixed media'

• Feral

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 14:38 in cats, mixed media, coloured pencil

  Feral refers to many things, meaning something domestic reverted to wild. A cat, a dog, an orchard tree. These things can be feral. We rarely think of ourselves as such, domesticated as our lives may be, but for us, the wild lies equally just b...

• Rivers Edge, Gargantua River

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:17 in mixed media, coloured pencil, lake superior provincial park

  Rivers Edge, Gargantua River, Lake Superior Provincial Park. Here, an impression from latest hike on the Coastal Trail, heading from Gargantua Harbour to Warp Bay. From these two points the trail heads through shaded woodland, and eventually cat...

• Changes & Work In Progress

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 10:51 in mixed media, wip, coloured pencil

  You may have noticed a changes in format. I spent Saturday at the library fiddling with adding a third column to this blog, something I've been wanting to do for quite a while, but was afraid to. In the end, it was very easy, but required a great d...

• In Search of Textured Paper—Part II

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 20:15 in mixed media, life drawing, coloured pencil

  Life Drawing Tuesday, again. The model’s clothed, as her fiancé has problem with her posing nude. Our loss, entirely, as she is a wonderful model, and very creative. Costume drawing is an extra challenge, if you haven’t already memorized t...

• In Search of Textured Paper

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 10:41 in tutorial, mixed media, coloured pencil, textured paper

  Full views of these can be seen here at my gallery blog. Here’s an example of me being cheap and stubborn. Something called colorfix paper, and colorfix primer exists for pastel and coloured pencil artists who wish to use a truly toothso...

• Life Drawing at Latcham

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 18:00 in acrylic, Nude, mixed media, life drawing, oil pastel

  I held back on this one, as I didn't want to give the impression that this blog would produce a constant stream of scribbly naked people; not that there is anything wrong with naked people, it's just not what this blog is normally about.I'm a nature ...

• How Dynamo Got Herself Into the Picture

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 17:48 in mixed media, oil pastel, dynamo, york regional forest, hollidge tract

  This the Violet Hour:Probably the last (for this season) of my series expressing the changing colours of the forest at sundown. I find that I can't work on things out of season; I just couldn't do 'summer' right now while the icicles still hang from...

• My First Fish

  Posted on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at 20:17 in Fishing, mixed media, watercolour, childhood memories, pickerel

  I've been doing numerous fish motifs of late, and so thought to go back to the beginning. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the crayola crayon plein air pickerel portrait circa 1975 so I had to whip up something entirely new for this entry. I sure mis...