Original art by Fiona Glass
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Art anniversary
It’s two years, almost to the day, since I first discovered I was good at art. I’d joined Windermere Art Society a few weeks previously, and stabbed about with a pencil in attempts to draw still life. And then they had a workshop on single colour watercolours, and something clicked. This was the result, and…
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Compact and bijou!
I realised I’d never shared a picture of my workspace before. So here it is, in all its (cutely small) glory! Basically, it’s an easel. On top of an old IKEA laptop table. In one corner of an already small and crowded room that’s only 7×5 feet at its biggest, with weird angles and a…
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Junction 36 Art Fair
We’ve had a hectic weekend, but I was determined to visit Green Door Artists’ huge new art fair in the exhibition hall at Junction 36 of the M6. And yesterday we managed it! We only had time to dash in, say hi to a few people, buzz round the vast number of stalls selling amazing…
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Rescuing sheep
I rescued some sheep! Well, not literally… just this picture, which I’d had a bit of a watercolour disaster with. But using the technique of overlaying pastels that we learned at Windermere Art Society the other week, I managed to resuscitate it! Does anyone else have interesting ways of rescuing art when it goes horribly…
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A much-loved barn?
Here’s a quick pen and ink sketch of a lovely old barn I spotted from the train window on the way to Kendal the other day. I loved the way the old tree seemed to have an arm out protecting the barn!
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Experimenting with pastels
Last week’s session at Windermere Art Society was absolutely fascinating – a workshop on layering pastels over watercolour. We each took along a watercolour painting we weren’t overly happy with, and lovely local artist Shahida Dolan showed us how to add texture, depth and definition by layering soft pastels straight on top of the watercolour.…
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Definitely drawing geese
I thought I’d better practice drawing some of the geese I photographed the other day before I set to work on the actual project – since I’d never tried anything bigger than a swallow before. This is my first attempt, in pen and ink. Not bad if I do say so myself!
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Drawing geese?
I spent some time on the shore of Windermere the other day, taking lots of photos of the Canada geese that frequent (aka run riot in!) the area for a possible new project. And what might that project be? Well, it’s in the very early stages of planning at the moment so it’s all a…
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Lots of bird art
We visited the wonderful bird art exhibition at Rheged (near Penrith) the other day and were blown away. I’d expected to see some great art and that was there in spades with original paintings, prints, sculpture, needlecraft etc. But there was also so much more – legends about birds, poetry about birds, facts about birds,…
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Experimenting…
A friend bought me a set of watercolour pencils for my birthday, so of course I had to sit straight down and mess about with them! I wanted to see what the colours looked like, but I also experimented with the way I used the pencils. The weird blob of colours (on the left) was…
