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.

Lowry

Lowry  29/02/2012

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Lowry was very inspirational to my work as he painted many townscapes which is what I have been focusing on. Here is some information on Lowry.

Laurence Stephen Lowry did not just paint northern scenes. He visited the south coast looking for ships and ferry s to paint. On one of these trips he visited Winchester where he observed a bearded lady pushing a perambulator. Lowry started to sketch the woman who strongly objected and used all sorts of foul language to let Lowry know it! Lowry recalled this moment and he was even more amazed that this happened in Winchester of all places!

Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Rusholme, Manchester, in November 1887, the only child of Irish-born R S Lowry and Elizabeth Lowry (née Hobson). He attended a local school in Victoria Park, but took private lessons from William Fitz, before starting work as a clerk for a firm of chartered accountants in 1904.

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My Plans!

My Plans!  29/02/2012

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This will be going into my portfolio but you can have a read...

I have learnt through using various methods, how to adapt the style of art I produce. I have found that using various media, like graphite pencil more shading and variation of colour, or not has come into my artwork. Experimenting with different media has also given me more of a versatile base to my skills. I have found that it has helped having my blog(www.clairesartyworld.blogspot.com) where I can use the comments gained from there to help me develop my own style. What I will continue to do is carry on experimenting with different media and improving my paintings and drawings with the help of other peoples constructive criticism. Throughout my portfolio I will include examples of this continued work which will also be viewable on my blog(link above).

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Tonal Sketches

During the time I have spent on this part I have been working on a series of london sketches. I chose to work on London as there are a lot of landmarks that I can sketch and they would look good as sketches. In my. collection so far I have done ; St Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben and Tower of London. There will be more sketches to follow.

Artistic Licence

Artistic licence is where you have the ability to change or adapt part of a readymade picture from a magazine or photo to make it your own. This could include changing positions of particular features of the picture. You might also change the colour of the sky in addition. Doing this it could enable you to be looser in your style of drawing or painting creating a possibly better image.

Equipment for Watercolour Painting

You will need:
Paper- Whatever feels the best to you like I mentioned in the last post.
Paints- A recognised name like windsor and Newton is preferable. If you are just starting out then I would recommend off of eBay "Essentials" it's 15 tubes of paint and 2 free brushes. The quality isn't as good as some but it's decent enough to get you started. The brand for those is Royal and Langnickel.
Brushes- If you don't get the set I have recommended then I would recommend getting 3 brushes from the stands you see in the likes of HobbyCraft or the Range. You should get a wash brush, round brush and a rigger brush.(Those will be defined tommorow!)
Palette- Of course you could use a dinner plate but any palette from a craft shop will cost you well under two pounds.
Pen- I would say to get a waterproof black very fine pen would be useful for pen and ink drawings

HB pencil and rubber