April 23, 2021Published by avrilejean at April 23, 2021Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaHow-to tutorialRobots, Einstein, Mushrooms and Landscapes All Have One Thing In CommonGetting around to posting some older egg tempera paintings.
August 4, 2018Published by avrilejean at August 4, 2018Categories ADHDavril e jeanavril jeandinosaursHow-to tutoriallearningPranksoftware development33 Non Destructive Pranks you can play at work that should not get you into troubleOk so most of these I don’t have photos for as they occurred before I had a smartphone and I didn’t carry a camera with me…but […]
May 21, 2018Published by avrilejean at May 21, 2018Categories avril e jeanavril jeanHow-to tutorialpaintingpastelPastel class #4I missed two classes, one due to illness and one due to workshops that I could only go to on a Monday – So I attended […]
April 30, 2018Published by avrilejean at April 30, 2018Categories avril e jeanavril jeanHow-to tutoriallearningLife events and musingpaintingpastelStill life in pastelI came into the class today to find I was supposed to be drawing this. Look, I don’t do still life often. Um, have I ever?…..huh. […]
April 23, 2018Published by avrilejean at April 23, 2018Categories avril e jeanavril jeanHow-to tutoriallearningLife events and musingpaintingpastelportraitTime line of a pastel paintingYo! I have completed my second pastel session. The first is here. We had the same model and the same pose, but yesterday I chose to […]
September 20, 2017Published by avrilejean at September 20, 2017Categories avril e jeanavril jeanHow-to tutoriallearningpaintingwatercolourMaking my own watercolourWhen I did egg tempera I bought a tonne of pigment. Which really, I should use as it was not cheap and it’s just been sitting […]
January 5, 2017Published by avrilejean at January 5, 2017Categories avril e jeanavril jeanHow-to tutorialsewing and embroiderySock MonkeySock Monkey tutorialI have been sewing a lot of sock monkeys recently. I thought I’d record my progress so you can see how easy they actually are. What […]
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 […]