I’ve been conspicuously absent from AEDM for… hmm, let me see, Day 15 was the last time I posted. For the last five or so days I’ve been hobbling around like the hunchback of Notre Dame. We McLean’s have notoriously bad backs and once again, with no fault of my own, I pulled my back…
Archives for November 2015
Do You Know About The Perfect Sketchbook?
I just thought I’d add an update for all of you lovely artists out there interested in spectacular art supplies. If you’re like me, and I don’t think I’ve met an artist who wasn’t, you LOVE learning about art supplies. Some time ago a very cool artist, Erwin Lian, decided to try to create The Perfect…
AEDM – Day Fifteen
Wow, half way through AEDM. Christmas is just six weeks away. I’m stunned. I guess I gotta make a Christmas list, huh? I’m sure there’ll be art supplies on it, there always is. Last Christmas one of the things I really wanted were Da Vinci Maestro Pure Kolinsky 1503 watercolor brushes. Here’s the story. When…
AEDM – Dy Fourteen
AEDM What a terrible thing to happen in Paris. I’m horrified. It makes one feel so helpless to hear of such terrible acts against innocent people. It also feels a little weird to post about something so silly as my glasses and how I drew them up this afternoon, immortalizing them on a page. Yes, I’m supposed…
AEDM – Day Twelve & Thirteen
I obviously meant this to go up for Remembrance Day but it took too much time to finish. Do you mind seeing poppies on November thirteenth?? I can’t believe it’s already thirteen days into AEDM. Where does the time go? The poppies were so much fun to do. I really did splash paint around, all…
AEDM – Day Ten
Something simple today. It’s been a looong day. I started juicing today and learning to get it right, cutting pup all the veggies and prepping them, all for future juice extraction, has been exhausting work. Someone in Sketchbook Skool (on the Facebook website) did something similar to this and I thought is was so darn…
AEDM – Day Nine
AEDM Ooh, I love to add paint to a piece. This one I really wanted to capture the “well loved” nature of the lotion tube. I think I captured that. I decided to do the shadow in purple because the shadows on the tube was neutral tint and the silver top part was Payne’s grey….
AEDM – Day Eight
AEDM I expect I’ve never mentioned that I love hand lotion. I tend to have dry skin but I’m picky about my moisturizers. So many of them leave a horrible film on my skin. Here’s my hand lotion hack. I combine two kinds. I use OPI Avojuice because it’s really thin and leaves no film…
AEDM – Day Seven
Hello again, welcome to Autumn. Can you believe that Halloween and Thanksgiving (for Canadians) is gone? Me either! I can’t believe Thanksgiving (for the US) and Christmas is truly around the corner. Seriously, it was just September and kids were going back to school just yesterday. So we’re already seven days into AEDM, life is…
AEDM – Day Five & Six
It’s another few days into AEDM and I’m madly painting away. I’m determined, after this intense month of Art Everyday, to have a habit that I take into the new year. I’m thinking of it as an early New Year’s Resolution for 2016. Planning ahead always helps in these things. It seems I’m rubbish about normally…