Grab your paints and paint with me! I have an easy abstract summer meadow painting tutorial for you today and I thought I would take you step by step through how to put this piece together. Everything you need is listed below the video, but don't feel you have to get exactly the same as me to make it work The list…
Today is the day! My interview with Tamara Laporte, the creative force behind the Life Book Creativity and Welbeing Summit, is up! You can learn some more about me in the interview then have a go at my activity! For my activity I thought I would share more about my Daily Doodle Diary practice. Since I started doing it I have found…
Hey lovely creatives, I am giving away a free spot on the year long, mixed media course Life Book 2020 over on my Instagram. Oh and did I mention that I am teaching on it?! Ok, so maybe I have, a few times! If you want a chance to win, hop right on over to my Instagram feed now and look for…
I've done it! I have finished my FREE Creativity E-book! It is called 'Get Creating' and did I mention that it is FREE! What?! A FREE Creativity E-book?! Before you rush off to get a copy I have a video to tell you more about it below and how you can actually get your copy. But I also have some really big…
It is art challenge time and I have teamed up with Gerry van der Velden from Gerry's Craft Room to bring you some inspiration for using fabric in your art and craft projects. So in this collaboration we both went off and made some projects and the only rule was that they had to include fabric. And it was kind of lucky because…
Sometimes I plan my art, yes I do, and I've talked about the power of planned art before in my videos. It can be a really useful tool to have in your creative process repertoire. So I'm chatting about it again today, because this piece is partly planned art and partly unplanned art. But I have some other things to share with…
Are y ready for another speedpaint? This week I am mixing it up with gouache and acrylic paint again. But I have also thrown in some other materials into the mix. Look out for acrylic ink (paint pens) and some crayon and pencil layers too! I know! It is going to turn into a challenge soon to see how many materials I…
I am flexing my mixed media muscles today with a double page spread in my junk journal that is all about experimenting with gouache and acrylic paint. You have seen me use gouache before, I go through my gouache phases! And you have seen me use it with acrylic paint in the same piece. But usually it will be as just a…
Have you had pieces change direction on you this week? So you are working on an art project, it starts off as one thing but ends up something else entirely! Much like my piece for you today, it started as an abstract, went through a doodle phase then finished as a stylised flower. A rainbow stylised flower. So I hope you enjoy…
I love layering and I have lots of layers for you today in my art video. So I hope you like some layers too?! It is another floral piece and if you remember last week's art video I was showing you how to use transparent and translucent paint to add a focal image with a flower painting demo. Well this week I have…
You have spent ages making a beautiful, textured background. You are really pleased with it, but the piece still needs a focal image and you are finding it really hard to cover up that lovely background. What do you do? Don't worry! There is a solution and I am demoing it in today's video. So I hope you have a lot…