November 13, 2018Published by avrilejean at November 13, 2018Categories ADHDlearningLife events and musingportraitAncestry testing – I’m from Great Britain. ALL OF IT.I decided to do a DNA test through ancestry.com. I spat into a vial, and off it went – and then I got back the results. […]
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 […]
April 16, 2018Published by avrilejean at April 16, 2018Categories avril e jeanavril jeanlearningpastelportraitTaking art classes – first session in pastelsI joined the Victorian Artist’s Society this year because why not. I’m having a break from technology work until I am ready to go back or […]
December 3, 2016Published by avrilejean at December 3, 2016Categories avril e jeanavril jeanegg temperaguitarlearningpaintingportraitEgg Tempera. Messy, difficult, addictiveA while ago I did a series of posts on painting with egg tempera. I’d finished the first one – this portrait of Ada Lovelace holding […]
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 […]
March 18, 2013Published by avrilejean at March 18, 2013Categories avril e jeanavril jeanillustrationlearningpencilportraitLife Drawing*****Please note *******- there are some drawings at the bottom of this post that may be deemed as not work safe; as they are charcoal drawings […]
February 25, 2013Published by avrilejean at February 25, 2013Categories avril e jeanavril jeandinosaurdinosaurselizabeth IIkingportraitqueenqueen elizabethregina rexNewest Queen paintingI’m working on my second Elizabeth II/Dinosaur picture. I decided it was time to to a large meat eater but that posed problems with scale. A […]
January 24, 2013Published by avrilejean at January 24, 2013Categories avril e jeanavril jeanOld photographsMorphing Old PhotographsSomething I used to do 2 computers ago (when i had the graphics tablet and the software was compatible), was modifying old photographs.