Category Archives: Painting

The Artist’s Guide to Perspective – book review

Here is my second book review.  The book is called The Artist’s Guide to Perspective by Janet Shearer.  It is a large paperback with lots of photographs and diagrams, and step by step instructions like the felting book. The chapter … Continue reading

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Using Acrylic Medium

Laura Cater-Woods has written a blog post on acrylic mediums.  If you, like me, are confused with the plethora of different mediums available, pop over there and have a look!

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Painted papers course

First of all, let me show you a photo of the reeds in February, just so you know I’m keeping up with my resolve!  (Not that one lot of photos a month is exactly onerous but still…) I love the … Continue reading

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Another reeds piece, finally!

I’ve been a bit in the doldrums regarding creativity recently, or at least the textile sort.  So I had to force myself to get down to printing the next in the reeds series and it was a slow start.  But … Continue reading

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Acrylic paint on fabric – some experiments

While I was writing my article for Quiltwow on using acrylic paint on fabric, I decided to do a few tests to see which sorts of acrylic paint worked best and also to see how much wash out there was … Continue reading

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Finding Your Visual Language course

I have tried to write about my week at Committed to Cloth a couple of times and just ended up with a confused tangle of impressions, ideas and happenings.    So here we go again… Before the week started, Claire sent … Continue reading

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