Original charcoal art by Fiona Glass.
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Expensive string!
I can’t quite believe I had to pay £5 for a ball of string the size of a golf ball yesterday! For that price I’d have expected spun gold… However, it’s exactly what I needed to finish off the framing/labelling of all my pictures for the (rapidly) upcoming Windermere Art Society exhibition, which kicks off…
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Swan drawing framed
Yay! That’s the first of my pictures all finished, framed and ready to go off to the Windermere Art Society exhibition in August. This charcoal drawing is based on a photo of a rather pushy swan I “met” by the lake shore in Bowness a few years ago. It was clearly after my sandwiches, so…
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Framing hell!
I’m running around madly this week, trying to get all four of my pictures titled, signed, framed, sealed and labelled in time for the Windermere Art Society exhibition. It’s a steep learning curve; although I’m not making the actual frames myself I’m having to get to grips with signing on the mount, sealing everything up…
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A colourful flower painting
Just because I usually work in charcoal doesn’t mean I’m not still experimenting with other materials! Here’s one I did a few months back. It’s based on a photograph I took at Dalemain, which is a stately home in northern Cumbria with the most gorgeous gardens. Most unusually, the butterfly stayed still long enough for…
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Shiny new business cards!
I designed and ordered some business cards to have ready to hand out/leave lying round at the Windermere Art Society exhibition next month. They’ve just arrived – and I’m so pleased with them! It’s always a bit of a toss-up ordering online as you don’t quite know how things will turn out. Colours can vary,…
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Art for chimps!
There’s a really nice piece on the BBC website today about Black Sabbath rock star Ozzy Osbourne’s chimpanzee art raising funds for animal charity. It’s so nice to see some good news for a change! You can read all about it here:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxlgrdr7p0o
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Rudolph!
This was the very first time I realised I could draw, and it was all thanks to a super demonstration/workshop at Windermere Art Society earlier this year. The session involved using charcoal to draw faces and it really clicked – so much so that I produced this drawing of ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev in about…
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Watching you…
My first sale! This little watercolour painting of a human eye sold at a recent charity art auction in aid of the Kirkby Lonsdale fire recovery fund. The quaint old market town of Kirkby Lonsdale in south-east Cumbria was devastated by fire in December 2024. One person died, and over 80 businesses and homes were…
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A little cat pic…
As expected I didn’t get anywhere in the recent Blue Cross animal charity Paws to Draw competition, but it was useful experience and I’ve learned a lot for next time – and had a lot of fun taking part. And it does mean I’m now free to share the final version of my charcoal drawing…
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