As I reach a little milestone in my life, I thought it might be timely to reflect on a few things I've learnt as an artist and share "50 words of advice to artists". So here you go
Should you stretch watercolour paper or not? What does it even mean - "to stretch watercolor paper"? And why would you even want to stretch paper? Well, have you ever dropped some water on paper? What
The SAVE Art Exhibition is an art event in support of the SAVE African Rhino Foundation. All proceeds from the event will go to support the valuable work of the charity, and all pieces entered in the exhibition are
Not long to go till I head off on my art trip to the wildflowers just north of Perth. The wildflowers of Western Australia are very special to me as I spent a lot of time amongst them when I
These days you hear a lot about the need to get outdoors more and get your dose of Vitamin D. I know I do, because I do spend a fair bit of time in my studio painting because it's
This week I’ve been as busy as ever, and one of my little projects was to practise some quick watercolor sky studies. These were each created on 1/8 sheet of watercolour, and I did not use reference photos
After spending many hours working on my detailed purple hot rod painting, it was nice to go back to what I also love and that is experimenting with abstract watercolour. I really enjoy expressing myself in colour, shapes and texture,
At a recent City of Wanneroo Event I spotted this lovely old car (don't ask me what model or year it is, I'm a female and all I know is that it's a beautiful purple car)! I couldn't resist taking
I was very excited to receive a set of paints this week which I'd ordered all the way from Canada. I'm keen to look after our environment as well as the animals on our planet, so I am always on
I'm very happy to be taking part in a small way, in this very worthy fundraising event being held in Kalgoorlie on the 17th of May. One of the organisers (and a Facebook friend) contacted me this week to ask
Last weekend I ran a free workshop for anyone who wanted to experience painting outdoors (or "en plein air" if you want to use the true art term). About 30 people attended, including fellow artist Hettie Rowley who provided drawing
I had a clean out of my bookshelf recently and I realised I have quite a few visual diaries. I started to flick through them and just as one does when looking through photo albums, I spent a lot more