Sunset by the Sea

This again is a watercolour picture that I have used a variation of colours to create the overall effect.

Sunflowers

This is a watercolour that I have done of a sunflower, to create the textured leaves I used a variation of colours including; ultramarine blue, burnt umber, yellow ochre and hookers green.

Apologies...

I have just realised that the lack of posting is due to all of my posts going into the "draft" folder rather than the actual blog, the fault is now corrected, I apologise for any inconvenience caused!

Artistic Licence

Here is the page that I have done for my arts award. For a more detailed description on Artistic Licence see my previous post on Artistic Licence.

Beach Landscape

This is a watercolour landscape that I created from my head, for this reason I can't tell you were it is as I haven't got a clue! This scene was simple to create. A series of circles and rectangles helped me create the bucket, spade and sandcastle. The sky is made up with a graduated wash of Ultramarine Blue as I think a blue sky helps create more of a summer look.

And Happy April Fools Day!

Contacting Me

If  you have any suggestions, feedback or just have a question for me then I have created an email for this which is: clairesart123@live.co.uk  feel free to use this email and I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. Also this is where you can email me to gain acesss to my updates by email about my blog. This will be a newsletter that I will create once about once every month which will contain information, news arty tips that sort of stuff. Also I will never share your email addresss with anyone else, so feel free to sign up to that! My email address is also shown in the right hand side box with the welcome message.

 

Sawbridgeworth Art Show

Today we went to Sawbridgeworth Art Show. There were a lot of pictures varying in abilities and medias there. It was held at the towns Memorial Hall at a £1 per adult entrance fee. The pictures where mainly for sale but others weren't. Among my favourites were a Pastel Painting of a cat and elephant. There was also an extremely wide variation in subject from vary topical Olympics to countryside scenes . I enjoyed seeing all of the paintings however to improve the exhibition I would have liked to have seen more pictures to make the time spent there longer.The pictures are me at the exhibition and the entrance to the show.

Canary Wharf

This is a pastel picture done on pastel paper A3. This took me about 2 days to do.

Survey

Sorry! It would have helped to put the link in!

Logo Idea 1

This is my first design for the logo of my blog. I will be holding a poll when I have four designs for the logo, then you will be able to choose your favourite!

URGENT APPEAL

Hi, A craft forum (UK Scrappers)that I am part of has is in desperate need of more members, particuarly teenagers. If you or your children are intrested in chatting to some other teens/adults about scrapbooking arts and crafts then google UKScrappers. Teens and Kids have a seperate forum to the adults and hidden from the adults, everything is fully moderated by an amazing moderator - more for the adults. You can take part in challenges swaps , general chatting and have a great time! It also is a very quick sign up process and I amongst others will be there to help you along and chat to so I hope you will join us for some company!
P.S Adults sign up in the same way. If you have any questions email clairesart@hotmail.com

Art Shows

Hope you are having a great weekend so far. I am now offering email updates about art shows near you. All you have to do is email clairesart@hotmail.com (my email address) with your rough location and I will email you every so often with updates on local art shows near you. I will never share your email with anyone else.

Example of Artistic Licence

This is the original picture for the previous post.

Examples of Artistic Licence

This post and the next will show you an example of Artistic Licence . This landscape is done in pastels and as you can see i have changed it from the original picture.