Supplies For this project I used: * Arches 20x20cm cold pressed watercolour paper block. * Winsor and Newton Professional Watercolour Paints in Quinacridone Gold, Winsor Violet, Indanthrene Blue, Permanent Alizarin Crimson. * Princeton Neptune Pointed Round Size 4 * Pro Arte Prolene Rigger Brush, Size 3. Compass from the Helix Precision Drawing Set. Pencil, Ruler and Eraser. * These […]
Supplies For this project I used: Arches 7×10 cold pressed watercolour paper block. Winsor and Newton Professional Watercolour Paints in Winsor Violet, Indanthrene Blue, Quinacridone Gold, and Permanent Alizarin Crimson. Pro Arte Prolene Brushes Brush, Round 6 and Rigger 3. Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry Colours Palette (Blue Gold!) Pencil and Eraser. These are affiliate links […]
In this video tutorial I show you how to use your sketchbook and a fineliner pen to create six different border or page divider patterns with flowers, leaves and berries. When I make these, I scan them and use Adobe Illustrator to create vector images that I can recolour and use on my website or […]
In this video tutorial I show you how to make this teardrop pattern, beginning with a base of triangles. This is a fun pattern to make to fill a page or to use as part of a larger work of art, and it’s very satisfying to draw.
There is a simple trick to creating perfectly repeating patterns and, though many patterns are created using design software, it’s fun to make them by hand too. I show you how to make a simple repeating pattern using a piece of paper, pen, knife, ruler and some tape.
