Do you doodle? When you doodle what do you mostly do? Have you ever tried mandalas? I found myself doodling some mandalas last weekend. Settled in for a bit of Middle-earth adventuring with the Hobbit Trilogy, pen and paper in hand I started to draw mandalas. My first design got us most of the way to our first peek at Smaug. Ok,…
Hey Gorgeous Facers – before you go rushing off to link your face at the bottom of this post, I have a little surprise for you! So read on. First, let's get the reason why we are here sorted: For anyone new here this is a regular place to come and inspire, be inspired, but above all to share our portrait progress week…
Hey guys, my Art Journal Sharing Thursday this week is a travel sketching work in progress and a shameless excuse to share some travel photos from our recent amazing trip to Marrakech. Only a couple of photos, mind you, if I posted them all you would be reading this post for days! Some of you might remember that last year I took…
This week my Art Journal Sharing Thursday post comes to you from a cafe in South London. I was out and about a couple of weeks ago waiting for David in a cafe with my art journal book, a few journaling supplies and a cup of tea - journaling heaven! I was feeling brave so decided that a sketch was in order.…
It's my favourite post of the week, time for a bit of Art Journal Sharing Thursday. My Art Journal Share this week is all about another habit that I'm trying to turn into a regular thing and that is sketching. I've shared a couple of sketches here on my blog in the past, but I would say that I'm not a confident sketcher,…
What? No La-La Land Crafts Monday Inspiration post today? No, but if you drop by tomorrow I'm sure you will see some La-La Land Crafts! Well actually I know you will! The CHA in the USA starts tomorrow and I've been busy making samples. So my samples are there even if I'm not! But you haven't dropped by my blog for nothing, I…
I love experimenting as you know and I love trying my hand to different things, again this won't be too much of a shock to those of you who regularly pop by my blog. Well today I have one of my own illustrations to show. I've been doing a lot of work with watercolours and I just love how watercolour effects look…