ART BLOG
If you’ve read my website you’ll have discovered I’m dyslexic so I expect you can appreciate that blogging is not my favourite way to pass the day. BUT here it is worts and all. May you forgive my enimitable grammer and typos!
Case Study Cathy Holloway – Emerging Artist
I hadn’t drawn anything for well over ten years and certainly not in colour - I was strictly a graphite pencil artist except when forced otherwise in school art classes! Then the 2020 lockdown hit and I decided to learn something new. I couldn’t go to a shop and...
Case Study – My lockdown Artistic Journey by Ann Kretzschmar
"My real turning point was Sue Kerrigan-Harris’ 5-day soft pastel challenge!"I started pastel painting in April 2020 after 60 years of believing that I didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. My first teacher was Emma Hunt from west Cumbria. I started with a box of...
How To Watch My Art Video Tutorials – 3 Ways
How do you watch yours? Leave me a comment and let me kniw what you do 😊 Did you know that there's not just one way to watch an art video tutorial? And anyway you choose is the right way! The format of my online classes starts with anyone coming on...
Is Soft Pastel Art a Drawing or a Painting?
A Drawing, A Painting or A Pastel - What do you call Art in the Pastel Medium? Did you expect a simple answer? 😅 Well, it kind of is and kind of isn’t. Clear as mud? Okay, let me explain. 🤓 Soft Pastel can be a drawing medium and a painting medium (as can paint!). So...
How to Keep Yourself & Your Pastel Art Clean – 7 Top Tips
A common complaint about soft pastels I hear time and time again is about getting messy! Pastels can be messy on your hands but you don’t need to be messy everywhere else. I am the most untidy person I know (apart from my mum and sister ha!) and if you saw me in the...
A is for Art – Your Art Journey
Did you know that I’ve been a teacher since 2002? I used to teach children who struggled with learning - a challenge that I loved. But after the birth of my son I couldn’t do that anymore so I switched to teaching ladies which I love doing even more. I love teaching...
How to Choose Colours for a Painting
I don't know about you but if you are anything like me when I first started pastelling (painting with pastels) I could never get the colour right. I'd always be picking up the wrong colours and ending up with a mess that would end up turning a shade of brown! You're...
Critique – Pastel Pet Portrait
Can a critique help you improve your pet portraits? Obviously I’m going to say YES - a critique of your pet portrait can help you improve because I am an art tutor, both private tuition and weekly classes and more...
How to Frame a Pastel Portrait
A lot of people ask me how to frame a pastel painting so I have written this post to show you how I do it. I use Acid free materials because my commissions are designed to last a life time. You can choose to use different materials. So to start, here is a list of...
I Didn’t Draw For 3 Years
Someone once said my art wasn't very good. I thought it was great, really great, my best! She said it didn't look like the celebrity I was referring to and I gave up art on the spot for 3 years!! My world came tumbling down. This was my best and it is not good...
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