Quilty Girl Number 2

 page 26 of 40 in my personal visual diary challenge

This is the next phase in my creative drawing journey. Developing portraits in my own style.

With all my still life drawing practise, I found I loved creating texgtured backgrounds and the look of fabric.

This Quilty Girl has a log cabin quilt in the background. I've drawn her intuitively (same process as when I do a spirit guide drawing).

I Know deep within there will be more Quilty Girls and this will be an ongoing series. For now, I will practise face composition, shading and shadows, and designing quilts behind the ladies.

Please respect my intellectual property. Do not use my art for your own profits or gains. Thank you.

The first Quilty Girl

page 25 of 40 in my personal visual diaray challenge

 Quilty Girl #1

I decided to try an intuitive drawing of a girl, then found a quilt just appeared in the background! I can feel a series of these coming along!

What I learned doing my first marker portrait

 What I learned drawing my first portrait with pencil and alcohol markers.

I didn't use an easel, and when I was drawing it on a flat table, the angle of incidence affected the way I saw the image, and so when I lifted it up to look at it, the drawing was blown out of proportion.

I won't draw again (or paint!) without using an easel!

I feel there's going to be a lot more experimentation coming up with these markers. They don't blend as much as I'd like them to. What will I draw next?

Flower boxes

 Another new experiment, this time it's trying out Folk Art Architecture in pastel.

page 24 of 40 in my personal visual art diary challenge.

Art prompt from @thebotanica_collective on instagram.

I'm not sure whether I like it enough to keep going with this style. There's so much to try out, but how do we know if we don't try it?

This original photo has lovely shadows, but I left them out, artistic license right? 

The challenge of drawing fabric

 Page 25 of 40- I'm working my way through a 40 page diary in soft pastel.

A new prompt hashtag for me, I found #objectpaintchallenge on instagram, and this one called my name. (Of course! Textiles has been my medium for 25 years after all!)

I really enjoyed creating the squiggly lined striped fabric base, and the thimble, but I just couldn't see where the light would hit the pin cushion. So I feel that appears to be a bit flat in my drawing. The fabric didn't reflect light, it absorbed it.

I think I like drawing shiny objects for that reason. Unless it's a folk art exercise.

Soft pastel on black A3 paper.

Spooky Cupcake baking achievement unlocked

 Happy 8th birthday to my son!

You love spooky stuff, home made shirts by Mum, crystals, crafts, cooking, cats, creepy Scooby Doo shows, (spooky and mysterious, right?), drumming and music, rolling on your heelies, handball, skipping with a rope, Loom bands, gardening, eating fresh foods you've made and grown.

You're kind, compassionate, empathetic, assertive and creative.

Your favourite TV show is "Just Add Magic".

You revel in your uniqueness, showing others another way to be. You love soft tactile cushions and creating cubbies to sleep in.

You are loved, loving and loveable.

Love from Mum xxx

Doorway in Rabat medina

 This photo taken by my friend Georgie Parish, reminds me of my own trip to Morocco in 2008.

This door was photographed in the Rabat medina.

The outer door is large enough for a loaded camel or donkey to walk through into the family courtyard. The smaller door is the personal door opened for just a person.

The flowers were a bit tricky. I feel like it's easier to create sweeping petals and leaves in pastel than to create depth of flowers growing in a vine.

I may want to revisit this image in paint also.

In the meantime, I will keep drawing and keep practising. I wonder what my drawings will look like at the end of this journal? Or in another year?