I spent some lovely, peaceful time today recording a video showing how I work to create variations on a theme.This theme is motifs based around circles and how I go from simple to more complex, possibly over complex. You are welcome to come and #drawwithme as the #YouTube video is published at 19:30 UK time today, 4 April 2024 – https://youtu.be/tCHrlWi ..read more

This is my latest work, though I may add some metallics to it. May… It strikes me that it’s a sampler of sorts, of texture patterns. Many of these are inspired by the work of Rebecca Blair. I’m not sure if the end result is “me”. But it’s been a lovely way to spend over 20 hours over the past few days. It’s been something that I’ve been able to do in bite-sized pieces, which has been helpful as I’m still experiencing fatigue due to burnout, anaemia and menopause. The artwork is on an A4 sheet of Fabriano mixed media paper. The pens used were 0.5 and 0.1 Uniball Unipin fineliners, and a white ..read more

Finally, a day where I’ve had energy to get a fair amount done! That included drawing and putting together a collection of five mandala colouring pages, including the one above! Well, I had to have one coloured in didn’t I? I kept to a quite simple colour palette and I’m fairly OK with the result. It does have a harmonious feel to it. But, there must be an infinite, or at least many, many ways of adding colour to such a design to make it uniquely the person who is adding colour. Finally, I’ve set up a Ko-Fi account so I can sell small collections of colouring pages and maybe even my original ..read more

These three works show my love of intricate, intuitive, flowing art. I continue to explore the use of colour to work on gaining more confidence in using it. I can appreciate how colour brings the drawing to life and sets the mood, too. I find using a fairly limited palette really helps me appreciate this. I’ve worked on these over two or three weeks, give or take. It’s been a slow process as I’m recovering from a period of burnout from too much adulting and peopling. None are finished yet as I still have to indulge my love of pattern/texture to create more volume in the designs. Also, dot ..read more

YouTube video is published at 19:00 UK Time today, 3 Feb 2024 It’s been a few weeks full of adulting, leaving me drained of energy. Dealing with fraudulent use of my PayPal account lasted a week, and I still have a couple of things to sort out that I’ve not been up to doing. Thankfully, it was all mostly sorted, my account is as secure as possible, so phew! I’ve also had a lot of ‘people-ing’ (for me) to do, which has been lovely but has also left me drained. I have had enough sense to take time for myself to sleep, rest, and do things that relax and soothe me. The last thing I’d want to happ ..read more

This drawing has taken a bit of an unexpected turn, to say the least. Two black ink-filled Parker Jotter XL fountain pens, one with an M nib and the other with an F, were used to draw the structure of this drawing and add some patterns and textures. I then decided to use some Zebra Sarasa gel pens with vintage colours to add more patterns and textures. All was fine, but it all looked flat and not finished in any way. So, I added some flat colours with softly coloured alcohol markers. This improved things a little, but it wasn’t quite right. The drawing was missing contrast and dimension. A de ..read more

This is a drawing I started three weeks ago for a series of YouTube videos. Today’s video is part 4 of the series. I finished the basic drawing in part 3. It’s all about colour and contrast now before I add the final detailed textures/patterns. To add colour and contrast, I used Chameleon markers. Adding colour/shade is always a nervous time for me. Surprisingly, I’m not really confident with colour. I prefer to work with a limited palette of monochrome or analogous colours, maybe with a sprinkling of a complementary colour here and there. That’s the case unless it’s one of my Doodleworlds, w ..read more

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. In fact, this year has been quite icky for me healthwise – physically, emotionally, mentally and energetically. I am getting better bit by bit. I’m doing my best to get a youtube video out each Saturday. I’ve managed at least one colour template a month for the Angela Porter’s Colouring Book Fans facebook group. I’m fortunate that the publishers I work with, and others, have been patient and understanding with me. And my huge gratitude goes to them too. And a huge amount of gratitude to you too for encouragement, kind words, and sticking with me th ..read more

This is the colouring page I’ve drawn for the Angela Porter’s Colouring Book Fans facebook group. Of course it’s spooky cute. It makes me smile, and certainly gave me a lot of pleasure to do so. Drawn with pen on paper, painted digitally using Clip Studio paint. I love Hallowe’en. I can’t explain why entirely. It may be that there are no awful memories associated with this celebration. It may be the spooky side of me resonates with the energy of the day. Perhaps it’s because I love the autumnal colours. Maybe it’s a mix of all these and a few others. I haven’t drawn much in the way of spooky ..read more

The last couple of weeks have been … tiring. I’ve needed plenty of quiet time and rest. I have been drawing, and this is my latest drawing. It’s taken about a day’s work or so. I’m quite happy with it. The open space creates balance with the fussier areas. All the lines are ones I enjoy drawing. It never ceases to amaze me that the design possibilities are endless even with just a few shapes I like! Will I add colour and/or shading to this one? I don’t know yet. Shading is needed at the very least. But, I’m not sure what to use to do that – graphite, chalk pastel, or another medium, even digi ..read more