My good friend Monica Marier is taking part in Inktober, and as I want to expand my own creative practice, I thought I’d take part as well! It’ll be nice to see if I can cultivate a new drawing habit. Here is the original text from Jake Parker; 31 Days 31 Drawings Every October, artists […]
Arts and Crafts
Craftblogclub Winter Challenge
I’ve done a few of the #Craftblogclub challenges since the Twitter chat started a little over a year ago, and the current challenge is to create something that is winter themed. Now, for a frosty soul like myself, you’d think that would be easy. Should I knit or crochet something? Make some wintry jewellery? Produce […]
#Craftblogclub Challenge – #YouCompleteMe
I’m terrible for starting projects and never finishing them, be they novels or craft-related ideas. I always think I’ll get to something “eventually” but eventually never arrives! So it was quite handy that the latest #craftblogclub challenge was called ‘You Complete Me’, with the idea being that we finished a project we’d had outstanding for […]
What can you use casting resin for?
I’ve had some Siligum moulding paste and EasyCast casting resin for a while now, and I’ve always put off using it in case I messed it up! Finally I decided I’d try it, and I wanted to share my results! Siligum comes in two pots – one blue, one white. Take two lumps from each pot […]
Responding using Art 3
As I explained in my previous two posts on the subject, I’ve really been enjoying creating artistic responses as part of the required assignments for my Coursera course in art history. The final one was based around Velazquez’s work, Las Meninas, which you can see here. It’s a complicated work, featuring a circuit of gazes, […]
Responding using Art 2
As I explained in my post last week, I’ve been working on assignments for an online course about art history, and trying to use these assignments as a springboard back into artistic practice. For the second assignment, we were instructed to choose an object or an image, turn it into something else, then turn it […]
