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A little photography 24 Jun 2013 | 08:54 am
There has been art, but there has been no completion of any one art piece for over a month, so yeah, a little frustrated. So here is something a little different. The other day as I was picking my da...
A Piece a Week 21 – Still Life with Emotion 22 May 2013 | 05:27 pm
I learned a stack of things from this painting. I've certainly learnt that I know more than I thought I did and it has been exciting getting positive results from subjects I hadn't even considered att...
A Piece a Week 17 – Nightlight 23 Apr 2013 | 04:16 am
I was putting my youngest daughter to bed a couple of nights ago and as she snuggled up to her doll, I was struck by her pose. I grabbed my camera and as she fell asleep (she was very tired, we were u...
A Piece a Week 16 – Dahlia 16 Apr 2013 | 07:59 pm
I did a little bit of gardening yesterday and during my trips between the front yard and the backyard I kept encountering a particular dahlia. Hubby had planted them early last season and now they are...
H is for Hue 12 Apr 2013 | 06:10 pm
The Munsell Color System was created by Professor Albert Munsell in the early 20th century.
A Piece a Week 15 – The Purple Chair WIP 9 Apr 2013 | 06:50 pm
Tonight was my last art class for the term and now we have two weeks off before we delve into next term. This term was all about mixing colours and at first I was a little wary. My first time attendin...
G is for Grey 9 Apr 2013 | 03:51 am
Recently, greys have been a little baffling for me. Grey has always been a mix of black and white, but for anyone who has been looking at colour theory, as I have, will discover that the theory says t...
F is for Flesh 6 Apr 2013 | 03:30 am
I have to say that the title of this post is a little creepy. But no, we are talking the colour of flesh, one of the most challenging colours to create, particularly if you are painting caucasian.
E is for Earth 5 Apr 2013 | 06:33 pm
When I was a kid we had some friends who were building a house not far from an old quarry. Being kids we played in the quarry which was literally dripping with clay deposits (it was winter, there was ...
D is for Dioxazine Purple 4 Apr 2013 | 01:48 am
When I first threw Dioxazine Purple into Google I was very surprised at the lack of information that popped up. I was thinking, hey, this is my favourite purple, a stunning purple beloved by many arti...
