I have officially been blogging for 6 months! Up until recently, I had blogged almost every single day but unfortunately time constraints have stopped me doing that. I couldn’t have imagined that I’d still be here or that my blog would have become so important to me. This has become my outlet and my second home, and I continue to be grateful to all my readers and commentators, without whom I probably wouldn’t have continued. Read on
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 3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Abstract, Figurative, Mixed Media, Painting, Project, Visual Arts  Blog, Blogging, creative compostion, milestone I managed to edit and upload some paintings from my phone to the computer at college. The editing is not the best, as I still have no perspective crop available – I need Photoshop for that – but it’s the best I could do for the moment. Anyway, I managed to fill in . . . → Read More: Further Contextual Studies 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Abstract, Mixed Media, Painting, Project, Visual Arts Art & Design, contextual studies, dali, Picasso I mentioned that I have been studying Contextual Studies on one of my courses. Basically, this means that I am studying the work of famous artists and drawing comparisons and also contrasting them with each other. The artists I chose were Dali and Picasso. At the moment though, I am taking their paintings . . . → Read More: Contextual Studies 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Abstract, Mixed Media, Painting, Project, Visual Arts Art & Design, contextual studies, dali, mask of war, Picasso, pierrot playing the guitar, the studio, venus and the sailor, weeping woman, woman in an armchair I’ve no idea what tissue paper and brown paper has to do with analytical drawing but we had to use it for class today. Actually, the tissue paper drawing was done last night for class today, and the brown paper drawing was done in class today. Essentially, I had to glue pieces . . . → Read More: More analytical drawing 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Drawing, Mixed Media, Still Life, Visual Arts analytical drawing, Art & Design, Drawing, tissue paper Today I worked more on my personal project, developing the encaustic idea further. I loved the texture that the wax produced on my last piece, so I wanted to see how it would look on the other images. I squeezed blobs of paint onto the surface then poured wax on top of it . . . → Read More: Personal project: more encaustics Comments are closed Abstract, Mixed Media, Project, Visual Arts Art & Design, encaustics, personal project, wax |
I'm a student artist, and have just finished my first year at college. I work in all areas of art, specialising in abstract fine art, but I love experimentation and am willing to try new techniques and style. Follow me on my journey, as I progress through my studies.  
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