Whimsical Animals with Tracy Scott

Hi everyone!

I has a wonderful time on Sunday at a workshop taught by the wonderful Tracy Scott at AFTH,  I have been looking forward to doing this class ever since I saw the first animal that appeared in Tracy's journal!!!  I knew that I wanted some of these cute critters to appear in some of my work!!

So she got us started laying down some painty backgrounds and then we did a page of test animal sketches and then progressed to putting them into our journal.

This was the first one that appeared by the end of the morning session.

In the afternoon this little panda appeared on another page. 

 I didn't quite get it finished but came home and added the final touches.

I love them, and I have at least 2 on my sketch page which I want to add to my journal - so hopefully I will be able to blog them when they are done!!!

Now I just need the time to do them!!!

I hope all of you managed to find time this month to create something cute!!

Have a great month.

xxxxx HUGZ xxxxx

Preview day at AFTH - June

Hi everyone - I though I would do a quick post about the preview days at AFTH for those of you who have never been.

They are held every three months and they have samples of all the workshops that will be help for the next 3 months.  You get 10% discount for any classes that you book on the day and there are also 1 hour sample sessions so that you can get to meet the tutors and have a go at a small project.  These tasters are great fun and only cost £5 so are great value for money.

On the last preview day was in June and I did a taster session with the lovely Sandra Botham and we made these fab book mark!!!

Front

Back!

The next preview day is on the 3rd of October so if you fancy taking a run along and looking at the workshops and trying your hand at a taster I would strongly recommend it!!!

Oh there is also always coffee, tea and cakes to be had!!! Lol

Hope to see some of you there!! 

xxx hugz xxx

Regular Art Journaling with Kate Crane - September

Hi Folks - sorry I have done very little, or in the case of last month no blog posts recently, I have been unwell a lot over the summer and that has meant a lot of things have had to have been put on the back burner!

However I have still managed to get to quite lot of classes which I would like to do blog posts on - so I'm going to try and catch up on them over the next few weeks.

  So I thought I would start with the last one that I did, which was last weekend with the lovely Kate Crane at AFTH.

She decided to get us working on lettering within our journal pages - not the actual journaling but letters used for titles and decoration.

She had us do a few sample pieces - here are my unfinished ones!

Then we did our journal page itself - using amsterdam paints for the background and choosing one of the great Stampotique figures to colour in with pencil as our focal point.

Here's the page I finished.

This was the quote that Kate used on her sample page and I have to say I thought it was very apt!!

As always with Kates class - I had a great day!

Ok that's it for today!!

Hope you all have a creative weekend!

XXXXhugzXXXXX