Friday 9 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: H is for...
Thursday 8 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: G is for...
Gouache
💙 Linzé
Wednesday 7 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: F is for...
Fixative
💗 Linzé
Tuesday 6 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: E is for...
Encaustic painting
Encaustic is a wax medium applied after melting the wax. You can either use a brush or other tools, but it is not a medium suited for children because of the hot wax.
I have not used this medium but I love seeing what others have done, although it is not commonly used today. Check out these YouTube artists for more techniques and tips to use encaustic wax in mixed media projects.
Comments are most welcome on Twitter, and thank you for visiting my blog today!
Until tomorrow!
💜 Linzé
Monday 5 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: D is for...
Drawing
Saturday 3 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: C is for...
Colour pencil
Sharing another drawing today. This is a colour pencil drawing of a moth that my art group and I did last week.
The "underpainting" if I can call it that, was done with two Chameleon alcohol markers. The dark areas were done with a warm grey (WG3) and the light (areas not left white) were done with the sand (NU0) marker.
I used Faber Castell polychromos pencils for the details on the moth.
Moth in coloured pencil and alcohol marker
Comments are most welcome on Twitter, thank you for visiting my blog today.
Until Monday!
💜 Linzé
Friday 2 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: B is for...
Brush care
While it's fun to paint with all kinds of mediums, we should not forget to take good care of the brushes after we finished. Most mediums, like watercolour and acrylics, are water-based so it takes only a few minutes to clean them.
Oil-based mediums will require a solvent, but it is still a good idea to clean the brushes as soon as possible to ensure the quality of the bristles.
It does not require expensive brushes to produce a painting, but not taking care of them will be a waste of money.
Using ink with a paintbrush can be a particular pain since the ink will not only stain the bristles but can also cause damage if the ink becomes dry. If you paint with ink, like I sometimes do, it is a good idea to have a brush or two specifically for use with ink and to rinse it really well after use.
Comments are most welcome on Twitter, thank you for visiting my blog today.
💙 Linzé
Thursday 1 April 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 A to Z Blog Challenge: A is for...
Alcohol markers
Monday 8 March 2021
The #CreativeLife 2021 - review of week 9
April is blog challenge month, and today the participants are revealing their themes for their 26 days of blogging. I am taking part as well, and my posts will following my blog theme for 2021: aspects of the #CreativeLife. But instead of boring you with 26 posts of my daily life, I will be sharing some of my artwork, as well as a few bits and pieces of info about the things influencing the creation of art projects.
For more info and seeing what other bloggers will be up to >> Twitter #AtoZChallenge or @AprilA2Z
Now back to the usual week-in-review news for week 9 of 2021
On Wednesday I took my car in for its annual service. I found a dealership close to the lab and decided to take my car to them since my husband, who usually takes my car to a dealer close to his place of work, working from home for two days. Not an unusual thing to do, I grant you, but that it was not a usual service day for me.
One hour after I fetched the car again, thanks to one of my colleagues who took me to collect it after the service, I got a call from the service manager from the dealership with an offer to purchase my car. I turned him down. Not because the offer was not good enough, but the one model of vehicle that would tempt me right now to sell is not available in South Africa. And it is apparently unlikely to be made available. Welcome to my world.
The challenge for our art group last week was to draw dead leaves lying on concrete blocks. I took the picture at one of the local malls and challenged the group to take the almost monotone photograph and turn it into an abstract/impressionistic project. And here was the true challenge: we had to do it using watercolour pencils.
I think all of us had a learning experience, ranging from colour combinations that don't work, applying the pencils on paper not suited to the media, and practising freehand drawing using the grid method. Was it worth the effort?
Learning about a medium or a technique only happens when you sit down and experiment with it. So I would say it was definitely worth the effort (or aggravation?) to learn more about the mediums we own.
Sleep deprivation due to a Netflix story happened again, but at least this time I waited for the weekend so I could catch up a bit on Sunday.
So here is to a new week, new work challenges, and a whole lot of trying to avoid procrastination (aka Netflix) until I finished my todo list for the week.
Stay healthy, and live creatively until Thursday!
︙ Linzé 🇿🇦💚
Thursday 30 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 26 - Z
Zucchini flower by Linzé
Not one of my favourite vegetables, but I have to say that I do like eating the flowers. But here is a gouache painting (using it like watercolour paint) on watercolour paper.And with this painting, I have to say goodbye to the #AtoZChallenge for 2020. I hope you enjoyed all the creative posts and that you will remember to pop around in future for more posts about my creative life and those of other authors and artists.
Until next time!
Wednesday 29 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 29 - Y
Yellow Fungus by Linzé
This yellow fungus appeared after a few days of rain in September 2017. It grew out of the wooden structure supporting one of our rainwater tanks. I have only seen it that once and never again.Drawing done with Caran D'Ache museum aquarelle pencils on white paper.
Tuesday 28 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 24 - X
X-stitch by Linzé
I found this little cross-stitch kit in a magazine. I cannot remember when or which magazine, sorry. I did think that it would be a good project (and appropriate) for this time of isolation and it is small enough that it can be completed in a few hours.So I stitched it, made the background as per the instructions and now it is hanging on my pin board right next to my table in my workshop where I spend my time drawing or painting.
Monday 27 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 23 - W
WAIT by Michelle Kemp
Saturday 25 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 22 - V
VIOLET by Linzé
Violet is one of my all time favourite colours. For the letter V I decided to play with pencils that I have that do not belong to a set. Most of them are purple or violet - no surprise! 😂I found two Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils and one Caran D'Ache Supracolor II in my pencil cabinet and decided to use them. The CD pencil was still in its plastic package. Mixing colour pencils from different manufacturers are usually not a good idea since the pigmentation and lightfastness will not be the same.
This time I just played a bit to see how they would look when activated with water especially since I don't have any more of them to do a multicolour drawing. I found a stencil in my collection and used that instead of drawing from scratch. I think the end result looks rather nice.
I used Monte Marte Premium watercolour paper, and a Monte Marte 16/0 brush to activate the pigments since my watercolour brushes are too big for the fine detail in the ropes.
Friday 24 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 21 - U
UMBRELLA by Linzé
I did this all ink umbrella frame for a miniature art exhibition last year. It is a card 7 x 7 cm made from fine art paper with its own envelope.Thursday 23 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 20 - T
TIME by Linzé
My next art journal entry in my Stoicism series this year of #JournalArt2020. It was done with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and a Faber-Castell PITT marker for the text. The size of the leaf is 100% since I picked up the leaf and then traced it directly on the journal's pages before colouring it.Wednesday 22 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 19 - S
Shilpa Suraj on Love, Marriage, and Other Disasters
(a guest post)
Tuesday 21 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 18 - R
Red by Linzé
My first colour drawing for the Intober52 challenge was a bit of a fluke - I didn't want to draw something similar that I have been drawing since the start of the challenge in January. In April the prompts are colours because of a sponsor of the event, and the illuminated letters were born. I have always loved old books and these really old books were copied and decorated by hand.So I have continued with the theme of the illuminated letters for both RED and BLUE. They are both featured here today for the letter R in the #AtoZChallenge.
Monday 20 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 17 - Q
QUIRKY bird by Linzé
I did an online Sketchbook Workshop while in isolation and one of the lessons was this quirky bird. The artist/presenter of this lesson was Tamara Laporte (https://www.willowing.org). I loved the concept and shared it with the artists in my writers' group who also made their own quirky birds. But here is mine. Enjoy! 💜PS: Thank you for visiting my blog today. I love reading your comments, but I am still having difficulties replying. I do apologise and hope I can get this sorted out very soon. 💜 Linzé
Saturday 18 April 2020
A to Z Challenge: Day 16 - P
POT by Linzé
One day I was itching to draw something a little more challenging, so I decided to compose a still life. I photographed the greyish pot standing on a draped piece of black fabric I found in Francois' studio. I used my phone to capture the still life.It was done with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on black paper.
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