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 […]
May 20, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 20, 2015Categories avril e jeandrawingegg temperaHow-to tutorialEgg Tempera IV – InkingEgg tempera painting relies on there being a detailed under drawing in ink to paint over. So you transfer over from a cartoon (a preliminary drawing […]
May 20, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 20, 2015Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutoriallearningEgg tempera III – grinding pigmentThe next post in my Tempera series! One thing all the stuff I’ve read insists you do is grind your pigments. The best grinders are glass […]
May 20, 2015Published by avrilejean at May 20, 2015Categories avril e jeanegg temperaHow-to tutorialpaintingEgg Tempera V – under paintingAt last I get to introduce THE EGGS in this whole excercise.
April 19, 2015Published by avrilejean at April 19, 2015Categories avril e jeanegg temperaillustrationlearningpaintingEgg tempera II – transferring the pictureSo I’ve ended up with four nice shiny clean flat panels, ready to go. The thing about tempera is that you have to lay down exactly […]
March 25, 2015Published by avrilejean at March 25, 2015Categories Australian Landscapeavril e jeanavril jeanlandscapelearningpaintingpastelStorm clouds over wheat field – pastelI took some photos from the car window when I was out and about near the Grampians over the christmas break. There were wheat fields everywhere, […]
November 23, 2014Published by avrilejean at November 23, 2014Categories avril e jeanavril jeandrawingillustrationpen and inkThe orphan Well I’ve got nothing to post that’s new cause all my time is going into those dinosaur royalty things and I’m painting like a fiend […]
April 9, 2014Published by avrilejean at April 9, 2014Categories avril e jeanavril jeanFinally found something to do with that Justin Bieber DollA number of years ago I got a joke present for xmas – a Justin Bieber Doll.
December 6, 2013Published by avrilejean at December 6, 2013Categories avril e jeanavril jeanlearningLife events and musingpoetryMy Top 100 BooksI’ve been reading those ‘top books of all time’ lists and they always stick in Dickens and James Joyce and books that are unreadable and not […]