December 30, 2015Published by avrilejean at December 30, 2015Categories art boy galleryart showAustralian Landscapeavril e jeanavril jeancoloured pencildinosaurdrawingegg temperagalleryglueillustrationlandscapelearningoil paintingpaintingpastelpen and inkpencilqueenregina rexsewing and embroiderySock MonkeywatercolourThe Ubiquitous 2015 RetrospectiveI guess it’s inevitable so I will bow to it – what’s my year been like, art-wise?. What skills, highs, and lows, has this year brought […]
August 19, 2015Published by avrilejean at August 19, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeandrawingillustrationwatercolourThe Lady of Shalott- part fourThe last installment of the illustrations I’ve done Part IV In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his […]
August 17, 2015Published by avrilejean at August 17, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanillustrationpoetrywatercolourThe Lady of Shalott part threeEverybody’s favorite verse, the bit with “The curse has come upon me” in it! I wonder who cursed her. Part III A bow-shot from her […]
August 15, 2015Published by avrilejean at August 15, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanillustrationpoetrywatercolourThe Lady of Shalott part twoThis is second lot of illustrations I’ve done for the Lady of Shalott. (One day I might even learn to spell Shalott….) Part II No time […]
August 15, 2015Published by avrilejean at August 15, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeandrawingillustrationpaintingpoetrywatercolourThe Lady of Shalott – Alfred Lord TennysonI had a bit of fun doing an illustration for each line of this magnificent poem. Red watersoluble ink on paper with watercolour. Here is the […]
August 1, 2015Published by avrilejean at August 1, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanMighty MelbourneToday I went into a small bit of the city: hopped off the train at South Yarra, walked to the Shrine, and then up to Flinders […]
July 19, 2015Published by avrilejean at July 19, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanlearningDreamscope PhotosOh my I’ve been having a good time shoving things through the Dreamscope ‘trippy’ image software! Everything turns into puppies eventually.
July 3, 2015Published by avrilejean at July 3, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutoriallearningpaintingportraitEgg tempera VII – Completed paintingSo I pulled my finger out and finished off this painting, my first attempt at teaching myself Egg Tempera. It is Ada Lovelace, who did a […]
May 23, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 23, 2015Categories avril e jeanegg temperaHow-to tutorialpaintingEgg Tempera VI – the first go at laying down the real colourThis is such a learning curve. I spent the entirety of the movie Random Harvest doing this little bit. First I got my pigments ready. I […]