Tag: Art
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Natural Beauty: Fossils

Fossil Inspired, anyhow. Today’s #WORLDWATERCOLORGROUP watercolour has been inspired by the Asteroceras Obtusym, otherwise known as the Obtuse Star Ammonite, which I’m taking to be a well-known fact. According to Wikipedia, this is an extinct species of cephalopod of the Ammonite sub-class. They were carnivores, nektonic at that. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived around the…
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Natural Beauty: Flowers

Sigh. You can’t win them all, can you? Between you and me, I think my skills at watercolour painting are improving. I’ve realised that less paint and more water adds to a far better watercolour effect… I just need to get my blending skills honed a little and then I’ll be almost there! Today’s Natural…
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Natural Beauty: Sea Life

I’ve gotten the old paintbrushes out again, and splodged a few watercolours around a piece of paper. It’s Natural Beauty time over at Doodlewash with today’s theme being Sea Life, so I thought I’d venture down that old road again. As usual, I had an idea as to what I wanted in my head… dolphins…
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Six Syllable Sat’day: The Reveal

It’s Catherine Oxenberg! Well, slightly different… from back in the eighties. Amanda Carrington, from good old Dynasty. Another poortrait soon! Now, right then… which is which?
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The Hard Art of Blogging

Inspired by, and in homage to, Diane Henders. By that, I mean the cartoon strip post, not the subject matter! It’s a slow blogging time at the moment…