Texture is everywhere! Your hair, an animal’s fur, the dimples in a golf ball, the spikes on a cactus or the stem of a rose, the rough surface of a rock or brick wall, wrinkles in a face or crumpled paper…. On Wednesday 21 November 2018 I will be teaching a workshop, using mostly hard and soft artists’ pastels, exploring…
So you want to be an artist, eh? 😉 Because we don’t live in a black-and-white world, let’s start with getting an understanding of how colours work together and how a tool most artists still use all the time, the colour wheel, came into existence. In 1666 Sir Isaac Newton was the first to develop the colour wheel. He saw…
Today I spent another 3 hours or so on the ‘Ballerina in repose’ oil painting, at Attic Studios, my ‘studio away from home’. Essentially today I ended up spending most of the time trying to mix the right colours and tones for the skin colour on her legs and arm. Skin tones are a challenge! I also spent quite some…