VIDEO: Watercolor Stamping Basics with Art Impressions

I never thought of doing this with my stamps.
What a great idea!

Bujo - September Layout

Since spring officially begins in September. It is also my favourite time of year. 

To me spring means lots of colours, flowers and fresh, crisp mornings that warm up into beautiful sunny days.
It seemed natural to me to choose a floral theme for next month.

The cover page was something I made in Paint Shop Pro. 

The calendar/future log was inspired by a picture I had seen on pinterest. I love how it turned out. I'm thinking I need to get some fixative spray so that I can stop the water coloured pencils from smudging.

My Latest Piece of Art - a Line Drawing of a Cat

Last night I felt inspired to draw. I had seen this cute picture of a cat on pinterest recently and it was my inspiration for this piece. I have no idea who drew the original piece but it was of a lovely tabby. 

I've not ventured in to colouring any of my drawings yet. I don't want to mess them up. Although it is something I wouldn't mind trying soon, perhaps with a water colour background and drawing straight over the top of the paint.

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I love the look of the shape characters and also the page which has been divided in to different sized squares. Actually they all look really good! 

Drawing Practise

I've been practising my line drawing recently. 

I think I prefer the cat on the bottom left of this pic. It looks rather sophisticated. 

I need to do some more practise.

Drawing - Cute Animals

I've been watching some videos by Draw So Cute on youtube.

I am certainly not as good as the lady who draws the videos and I am definitely not confident enough to draw them using a sharpie like she does but I did have fun drawing these animals.

The tabby cat is rather cute!

The squirrel and the panda are my favourites! They just look adorable!! 

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I think I need to try out some of these techniques.

I have so many ideas for my watercolours that I had better start writing them down so I don't forget them!

New Art Supplies

I have some more washi tape. 

I ordered this one from ebay.

I quite like the banner/pennants 

I got the paint brushes from Wish.

I got all my art supplies out on Wednesday so I could have a bit of a play with the watercolour paints but I checked something on ancestry.com and ended up losing tack of time. I guess I did a bit of time travelling. I lost around 5 hours searching for info on my parents and grandparents.

Oh well, there's always the weekend to have a play with my watercolours .. hopefully.

Bullet Journal - February Spread

I love how the flowers and leaves turned out on this page! They really do make the page look so much better!

I thought that since February has Valentines day in it I would use red as my theme colour for the month.

WIP - Watercolour - Hibiscus Flower

I thought I would have a go at doing some water colour painting. I hadn't really drawn or painted in years. I was inspired by makoccino on youtube. Her work looks wonderful so I thought I would give it a try. 

It would have been nice if the colours and the names matched up .. oh well. 

I bought a set of watercolour paints on Ebay. They looked okay and had a wide range of colours although I am not sure that the quality is all that good but I guess it's okay for starting out. They arrived in the post on Wednesday. 

Not bad for my first go! I am planning on using this as my January cover page. Mainly because it's a hibiscus and they remind me of summer.

I'll be adding some more colour to it. Possibly with coloured pencils just to finish it off and add some more details. I'll post another picture when I'm done. Hopefully the colours might pop and make it look even better.

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I wish I was as artistic as this.
I love how her journal/planner looks.

VIDEO: Van Gogh's Starry Night painted on dark water by Garip Ay

This is amazing. I am totally blown away with this guys talent.
It also helps that I absolutely love Van Gogh's art ♥

Art Exhibition

Brodie and I went to an Art exhibition in town over the weekend. It's part of the Ficifolia Festival. There are so many talented artists around. They even had a section for fibre art and wearable art. If I had known that I would have entered some of my crochet... oh well. Here's some photos of the artwork I really enjoyed looking at.

The family of Kookaburras is my favourite. They look so realistic!

This one was on a tile and looked amazing! 

The water looks so inviting. Especially when we were there at the exhibition. It was a HOT morning and we had been walking about town before we went to check out the artwork on the way home.

The galahs ^^ above ^^ are my favourite native bird. I had a pet one once who used to chat away telling everyone he was a pretty bird.

The eyes of the cat in this painting looks amazingly real.

The one above is a mosaic tile. (sorry it's not the best photo)  It shows the main area of the town we live in. I love it.

A Purple people eater hat - crocheted of course

The dress is knitted but the hat and bag are crocheted.

Love the combie van. 

Gorgeous Artwork

I belong to a few yahoo groups where I get some pretty Incredimail email backgrounds. Every now and them someone sends some lovely pictures through to use as desktop backgrounds. This morning someone sent through these few paintings along with a few more by the same artist and I just fell in love with them.

I had no clue as to who the artist was other than the name Duffett written on the pictures. So I did a search and found out the name of the artist - Shelagh Duffett. Her artwork is so bright and delightful. I could just see her work on my walls. You should go and check out her work at her etsy shop - Alice in Paris. It's beautiful.

Art With Salt

And here I was thinking that salt was just a condiment ...

This guy is just amazing!

Some of My Old Drawings

Here's a couple of photos of some drawings I did a very long time ago. I think we still lived in the caravan park when I drew these. I was talking with Jenn @wisdompathart on twitter about how I love her artwork and I could never be half as good as she is. Her work is awesome!
You can check out her work >>>HERE<<<

I'm thinking I still need loads of practise!