Category: experiments

  • More oil pastel experiments

    More oil pastel experiments

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    Liz

    I’ve just yesterday joined up to a community focussed on art journalling – another attempt of mine to get my art going and funnily enough it has worked for today. The above is a close up from a previous oil pastel experiment. As part of joining the community, I uploaded a few of the bits…

  • 15 minutes a day – Experiment in progress

    15 minutes a day – Experiment in progress

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    Liz

    I did some more work on a long term work in progress (long term because it takes overnight or more to dry for each stage). More than 15 minutes achieved today, approx 1 hour.

  • Paint Party Friday – Pastels last Saturday

    Paint Party Friday – Pastels last Saturday

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    Liz

    I am so art deprived at the moment. Art neglected, blog neglected, real life eating me alive. However, my sister kidnapped me and my eldest daughter last Saturday and locked us all in a room with some cheap art supplies and made us create. This is what I came up with.

  • Sunday Sketches – experiments in hand drawn animation

    Sunday Sketches – experiments in hand drawn animation

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    Liz

    Sunday Sketches… I actually did some sketching this week as part of my current venture into animation. When I say animation, I mean very basic animation. I did the sketches below as an experiment to see how the process works. I have since decided to use another method and another character, so these drawings are…

  • Spectrum Square – Dark Red results and a new colour

    Spectrum Square – Dark Red results and a new colour

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    Liz

    So how did you go? Are there lots of red artworks out there? I hope so 😀 To submit your work to the challenge, either upload your art to the brand new Spectrum Square Flickr group, or add a link in the comments section of this post. Then we can all bask in the glory…

  • Tangles – work in progress

    Tangles – work in progress

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    Liz

    It looks better in real life, trust me. My scanner has issues with red, as does my camera and printer. It must be the awkward end of the spectrum. in any case,I have red and yellow gel pen squiggles all over this and it has developed into a rather interesting background. I call it a…

  • Coloured zentangle

    Coloured zentangle

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    Liz

    I’ve been fascinated by this background from my acrylic experiments last week. it has been yelling at me to create something from it. But I don’t know what. So last night I printed off a couple of copies of the square, and since they are reproduceable copies, I felt free to make as many mistakes…

  • Explorations – Bubble painting

    Explorations – Bubble painting

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    Liz

    I was giving my eldest daughter a bath one night, swirling bubblebath around in the tub, when the bubbles suddenly grabbed my attention. They had a beautiful texture. I wondered if they could carry paint and leave a print on paper. Of course, I had to explore the idea.

  • Acrylic experiments

    Acrylic experiments

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    Liz

    Last week I played with some new acrylic paints my parents-in-law were kind enough to buy me for Christmas. I didn’t really paint anything, I did pure experimentation with a bunch of acrylic mediums. I had no idea what I was doing as I’ve only ever really used a retarder and nothing else in my…

  • Experiments with carbon paper

    Experiments with carbon paper

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    Liz

    Drawing Lab Challenge #11 – how did you do? I managed to slip off the rails somewhat and do something not quite what the challenge was asking for. I didn’t really feel like drawing something, I felt like playing with textures, so I did. I grabbed some carbon paper (of which I have a pile…