Cynthia Lane

Yes, it all helps. The technique feels like pressed flowers – I don’t know if you ever did that when you were a child? It worked with some flowers and others just kind of shrivelled into nothing.

Thanks, Sandra

Thanks, Lisa Ann. I did it so I could use it as a front of a birthday card for a friend. Hope she likes it, too!

Thanks, Yvonne, for the tip. I have signed up for some by Brent Eviston on Udemy, with a coupon each section is only 9.99 which is very reasonable. He teaches drawing from observation. From what I can gather Sandra Angelo teaches drawing from photographs which are two different skills I’m supposing.And then drawing better from the imagination…[Read more]

Learning, Yvonne. I am not good at drawing or colour.

Good idea , Yvonne. I found the page with the free lessons -you have to sign on to her mailing list to be able to down load them and it hasn’t responded to my request to sign up. I have watched a few of her videos on fb and she is heavily promoting her online course, and her students appear to get good results but most of the talking points are…[Read more]

Great way to show the prompt – my hands can get so dirty in the garden I am sometimes surprised something hasn’t taken root. 😉

what fun! 🙂

Very appealing, and gives a sense of depth.

Thank you, Mary!

Thanks, Lisa Ann. I am happy with how he came out – looks like he wants to play ! 🙂

Thanks, Karen 🙂

Thanks, Sandra 🙂

Thank you Sandra! how very kind of you, much appreciated! 🙂

Congratulations! Trying to make our own with what we have sounds like a good idea. I wonder if they use specially sized paper or not? I’d be tempted to test a few different ones – freezer paper and parchment, for example. I wonder if on wc paper they would just absorb in. Do they seem to be on watercolour paper?

I love how fluffy and silky you got your chicken to look! I’m still trying to figure out how to deal with fur and feathers. Mostly feathers. I love birds.