Category: materials

  • Rescuing sheep

    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…

  • Experimenting…

    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…