Its been an absolute age, but I have updated the Etsy store with paintings for sale.
Please head to the store to see the newest acrylic paintings for sale.
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I hope you see something you like 🙂
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I saw on a Facebook group at the start of January, a challenge to make 1 mark a day for every day of 2023.
Here is the result for January 23.
Do I like it? Nope!! But I’m not sure I am meant to, the point is to create everyday.
Have I done that? Nope!!! I have had to fill in several days at a time, but the intention is there, that’s what’s important isn’t it?
This month I used acrylic pens, watercolour pens and distress crayons. It will be interesting to see how they all react as the layers increase.
The plan, currently, is to update you at the end of each month, to show you progress, and to keep me accountable.
I hope you stock with me, and give appropriate encouragement along the way 😉
Until next time…..
It’s 2023 and it’s starting as a warm one here in Norfolk UK. We rang in the new year as a family, including our daughter’s boyfriend. It was a fun evening of laughter, just dance, Wii sports and alcohol-free bubbly.
We look forward to 2023 as a year of being happy, healthy, and full of things we love to do.
The end of 2022 finished in a bit of a blur, with both Hubby and I testing positive for the dreaded Covid a week before festivities, and our son having a horrible cold, but a negative C test. Our daughter on Xmas eve announced she was feeling ropey, but remains negative.
My December started well – I started a new job, my first in 6 years, I am now a part-time librarian for our local library, and my new employer is super keen to know what I can bring to the library artistically, so watch this space for potential classes being run by you know who! I took part in a local craft fayre and sold a journal there, it covered the cost of the table at least, and we all bought things from other stallholders so we definitely gave back to the community.
I have also been excited to sell a journal on Etsy, it was a lovely Grunge Botanical folder made from the base of an Amazon package, so that’s something to ensure I keep going with, it’s a slow burner, especially as I am not promoting it at all, but I’m happy people are liking my work enough to buy it.
I had some art showing in an exhibition for 2 days before Christmas and I am so super happy to say that I sold a piece. Apparently, it could have sold twice over, so that’s one to do again in the future 🙂
Due to illness, my art took a back seat over the festivities, all my ideas of “I can do loads of art college practice” went out of the window and I struggled to even achieve doodles for a few days.
So here we are in January 2023. I spent a lovely time on New Years’ eve and New Year’s Day in the studio, tidying up and generally making marks on papers, I followed a lovely matchbox tutorial from The Ugly Art Club, and a Big Painting from Laura Horn Art class, some Awesome Art School classes.
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I paid for any products discussed.
I received no payment and I am not affiliated in any way with any brand mentioned herein.
So today is #colourfriday – an initiative started by the fabulous Holly Tucker MBE the original founder of Not on the Highstreet
Yesterday I met Holly, in Norwich, where she came to talk with around 100 small businesses from East Anglia, to promote her Colour Friday scheme. This scheme aims to ditch “black Friday” and encourage all to get back to shopping with Small, Local, and Entrepreneurs. It was an amazing event, I can’t even begin to explain how honoured I felt being there listening to her, in real life, and being in the presence of so many small business owners. I almost – but not quite – felt like a fraud for being there!
I have this morning been trawling everyone’s posts I can from yesterday, and I’ve already made a purchase! However, my biggest takeaway from the day is:
I CAN DO THIS!!!! I can be an artist, and I can sell my wares, I just have to work hard at promoting myself (not good at that) and believing in myself (again that’s not an easy thing for me to do!)
So here goes
Hello, My name is Donna, I am an artist, and I have an Etsy store where you can buy some of my Journals and my Original Artworks. I also enter my work into Art Exhibitions and Craft Fayres.
Donna Holmes November 2022
So module 1 is all done and dusted, we were looking at “imaginative landscapes” and that in itself takes on all sorts of connotations, but ultimately we were looking at how to paint a landscape, using a colour palette of our choice from the 4 seasons we had prepared and having composed a drawing from our references.
I struggled with it because I am not able to naturally take an image and redraw it in my way, I tried several versions of landscape and eventually settled upon a series of photographs from our trip to Austria in 2019. My initial references were combined to make a new version of the landscape rather than paint from one image. This style of work is new to me and so I had to combine many skills into the final piece.
After this, I produced a non-realistic version of the painting, making it very flat in colour, but with blocks of colour rather than a realistic style. for could almost be leaning toward a “David Hockney” style painting.
I also created a painting from a photograph of a trip to Yorkshire in 2016 of the view of the Humber Bridge. I found this a little easier, maybe because I was more practised in representing what I was seeing this time, maybe because it was an easier reference image and I was altering perspective and sky detail.
All images were started as pencil drawings and added detail with acrylic before building up to a finished piece.
Our sketchbooks and final works are in for marking and I’m looking forward to the feedback as it will help me take my art further.
Next Module: Still Life.
Our next module is all about Still Life and I’m really looking forward to it.
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All opinions expressed here are my own.
I paid for any products discussed.
I received no payment and I am not affiliated in any way with any brand mentioned herein.
