He may be one of the top fashion designers around, but Garavani Valentino isn't going to set any trends with his dark orange tan.The 76-year-old style guru's skin looked alarmingly amber as he arrived at the opening night of the New York City Ballet's new season.And it appears Valentino's glowing hue rubbed off on his famous friend Sarah Jessica Parker as the pair hugged on the red carpet last nig
Feather in Coloured Pencil. Vivien Blackburn approx 5 ins squareA friend gave me some beautiful feathers and I couldn't resist drawing one. This is in coloured pencil, a mix of Lyra and Polychromos.If you like it enough :>) I've just added it to my Etsy shop - as I enjoy drawing feathers I thought I'd do a series for the shop.A good idea do you think?
Katie Holmes and her adorable toddler Suri geared up for Halloween yesterday by wearing the same orange, pumpkin-coloured outfits.
Mother and daughter headed out to New York's Central Park to play on the swings dressed in their seasonal dresses.
Later in the day, Holmes took her newfound love of fashionable urban chic to a new level by wearing a pair of sleek stilettos and PVC leggings.
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Esta es la segunda entraga de Themes para Symbian:
Lo que ofrecemos ahora es:
Magic of Black by a21: tal como lo indica su nombre es un theme oscuro, con toques de dorado oro. Me parece un tema sobrio. Se han editado tambien los iconos para este theme.
Orange Scratch by Udest: este es con tonos de [...]
....is an exhibition coming up in Sydney next week, that im really happy to be a part of. The lovely Kareena Zerefos has organised/curated the show. Opening night is Thursday 30 October, 6-9pm, at the Grand Social Pop Up Store, 461 Oxford St, Paddington. Im along side the lovely Kareena Zerefos, Tina Salma, Courtney Brims, Anna Pogossova, Kelly Smith, Eugenia Tsimiklis and TMOD. I wish i was going
James Connell
A visit to the hospital for an intimate examination can be distressing, nervewracking and embarrassing for some patients. Now the use of coloured “MoodLight” during breast examinations at Worcester’s main hospital may be the latest way to, quite literally, banish patient blues.
The new machine has been ordered by staff at Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Newtown Road, Worcest
cream coloured poniesopening night Thursday 30 October from 6 - 9 pmat the grand social pop up store481 Oxford Street, Paddington.featuring a few of my absolute favs (I know I say this every time....but really, you will love all these illustrators)Courtney BrimsKareena ZerefosBindi BoothBec WinnelKelly Smithplus...eugenia tsimiklis, tina salama, anna pogossovawish I could see it in Sydney !!Those
Best Buy - Coloured eye Contact lenses ( no presciption needed) Want to feel hotter and sexier? Want to stand out from the crowd? Want a change? Email me for information. We have a variety of colours and types.Price : $99.99 More on Personals Ads
Vibrantly coloured by nature, it's no wonder Fall is one of my most favourite times of year. I love how the season delivers a cornucopia of varying shades of green, yellow, orange and red. The air is crisp and clean and the sky is saturated in electric blue. Talk about the perfect opportunity for great pictures.
Light and shadows play an enormous role in your ability to capture a stunning - R
Evening Beach, watercolour pencil, 2.5x3.5 ins ACEO. Vivien BlackburnI've never done ACEO's before but decided to have a go. It's not a format or size I would normally use but I actually really enjoyed doing them.If you are interested in buying any of my ACEOs take a look at my Etsy site as I'll be uploading them there later today and tomorrow. I've only just begun and I'll keep adding new ACEOs
Push-up bra in embroidered nude coloured tulle with flower embroidery
Padded cups with plunging neckline and removable pads
Rear part in black tulle
Spaghetti double straps
Golden Christies logo between the cups
Everyone wants to make an impact in Orkut by writing cool scraps in cool text and colour. Here is an extra cool method to write your orkut scraps like the below text. Just have a look at that.
Copy the code from the box, paste that in your browser and hit enter, if you want write the text like below :
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Faber Castell Polychromos is your favourite brand of artist grade coloured pencil - by a whisker. That's the current result according to my poll which asks "Which is your favourite make of artist grade coloured pencil?"
This is an update on the progress of one of the polls on Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists - my coloured pencils information site - as at the end of July 2008.
What
Open any page in Orkut which contain text box. (Scrapbook,Community Post etc)
Type the message in the TEXT BOX.
Copy the following java script into the URL Bar.
Hit ENTER.
Now click on SUBMIT.
Code:
javascript:cor=new Array('aqua','blue','fuchsia','gold','gray','green','lime','maroon','navy','olive','orange','pink','purple','red','silver','teal','violet', 'yellow' );var z=0;txt=document.g
Fish 1, collagraph and coloured pencil, 9x7 ins, Vivien BlackburnWhilst sorting through old work to store in my lovely shiny new plan chest I came across unfinished pieces that were worth working further on - these 2 collagraphs were put in the 'To Work On And Finish Later' drawer. This morning I got out the coloured pencils and added just a few thin glazes of colour to push the colour range a li
Not all professional watercolour Hot Press papers behave in the same way.
I've been using what I think is Saunders Waterford Hot Press for coloured pencil drawings in my Drawing a Head class at the Princes Drawing School this term. It's a completely different experience from drawing on any other sort of paper and I thought I'd provide some feedback about what it's like.
Drawing a Head 5th
Trams in Hong Kong are famous for being painted with ads all over. Actually this is not so bad as it gives the city even more colours and (perhaps) helps in keeping the fare so low (HKD 2 for a ride). Once inside though, it’s still the same wood and steel decoration. The ad [...]
Este finde Fergie y Victoria lucieron sus nuevos pantalones de color. Fergie un pitillo y Victoria, como ya últimamente nos tiene acostumbrados, campana. Las dos casualmente eligieron el mismo color. Ambas combinaron su pantalón verde con una chaqueta de cuero negra.This weekend Fergie and Victoria rocked their new coloured jeans. Fergie opted for skinny jeans, Victoria prefered - as lately usu
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
The Festival of Colors, Holi spreads the message of happiness and blesses all with a blissful life ahead as colorful as the colors of Holi. The day remembered to have brought victory of good over evil, is enjoyed with colors, the taste of Bhaang, the memorable pranks and loads of fun and masti. Play with [...]
May in England, yellow fields and cow parsley. Sketch. 18x26cm approx Watercolour/mixed media. Vivien BlackburnA watercolour and mixed media sketch of the rapeseed just before it loses it's bright yellow flowers, with the cow parsley billowing in the verges, done from near where the pastel sketch was done.Watercolour, a little work with coloured pencils, white gouache and tippex went into this -an
Fairmont - Coloured In Memory (2007)Todos los amantes de la buena música electrónica sabemos que hay un antes y un después de James Holden y su sello Border Community.Este proyecto está de actualidad ya que ha publicado el que es su segundo largo, llamado Colured In The Memory, y lo ha hecho bajo el auspicio del sello de Holden, como no podía ser de otro modo.Este disco tiene todos los ingred
Remember those ice balls your parents used to enjoy holding in their hands under the hot Singapore sun, today I am going to show you how you can do something similar but instead of ice we will be using rice. Of cos you can still ask your parents to join in to make these but you can also get your kids (you being the parent) to make as well.You will need:- Cooked Rice (Cooled for 4 persons serving)-
Me encanta la tendencia de pantalones de color que empezó el año pasado con pitillos de colores. Al equipo encabezado de las trend setters Victoria Beckham y Rihanna, este año también entraron Katie Holmes y Cameron Diaz.Love the coloured jeans trend that has been here since last year. The coloured jeans celebrity team headed by two trendsetters - Victoria Beckham y Rihanna, was joined, among
Fantasia Black & Gold: Coloured ciggies. A fashion statement?Inspired by our company matriarch, Lautia Sherman, Fantasia Lights bring both elegance and fashion to smoking that one could only expect from Nat Sherman. A charcoal filter delivers lightness and the finest blending of all natural tobacco creates a truly unique smoking experience. This 101mm Queen Size cigarette features a gold filter tip and comes in an array of five colors.Flavia Oliveira in the April issue of Flair Magazine, holding the coloured cigarettes [via fabsugar][via fashionindie]
Vertu adds more color to its Signature Diamond Collection luxury cell phones line and offers two new design options: Signature Rose Gold Pink Diamonds and Signature Rose Gold Pink Sapphires.
Starting with the idea of haute joaillerie and Grand Complication timepieces, Vertu created two more unique designed cell phones for luxury lovers.
The news consists of the addition of 18 Carat Rose Gold,
Theres nothing a creative bod likes more than a bit of fun with the old Pantone guide. Its a design icon in its own right. Mugs, tshirts, you name it and its been pantoned. But stairs?
This is the work of San Fransisco artist Tamotsu Yagi. (A great web site). via
Nicole Caulfield has got her studio finished - which has given her the space to make her first ever video.
The subject is erasing coloured pencil on Fisher 400 paper. Nicole shows the different types of different erasers she uses and how to erase without losing the grit.
If you've ever wanted to see Nicole at work or have ever thought about taking one of her very popular coloured pencil
Lauren Conrad spotted leaving Katsuya in Los Angeles and looks like she need to brush her tongue
Lauren Conrad leaving Katsuya in Los Angeles
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Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News, Celebrity Photos, Lauren Conrad
I don’t like this new Wordpress display. It messes with my eyes because it’s so damn bright. I like it about as much as I like people who are stuck in the 18th century version of Cape Town.
So I moved. That might be why I haven’t posted anything for a while, or rather, [...]
An old tree stump, A4 size sketch in coloured pencil. Vivien BlackburnAnother sketch done in between teaching - students are finishing off work and there are lulls where they need to feedback so I fetched this tree stump out of the art cupboard - it's about 12 inches high with multiple cut off branches and knobbly bits and a straight side where the saw cut through the major stem. Stem? trunk?? whatever!I actually got the PIF's posted yesterday Karen, Lyndsay and Jeanette - I either got asked to work extra and couldn't get to the post office before closing time - or when I could I forgot! the attention span of a gnat I'm afraid :>( sorry it's been so long.The book can't progress yet due to work and a trip to London to some good exhibitions this coming weekend. I'll report back o
Why Coloured? You will notice that one of the recent trends in flooring is the introduction and increasing popularity of coloured laminate flooring. As laminate flooring is known for its resistance to stains and scratch, as well as its durability, manufacturers are coming up with several product varieties to encourage even the most discriminating home owner to consider using laminate flooring. Besides, laminate flooring with vibrant colors adds charm and cheer to the interior of your home. With a lot of hues available, you can choose the exact shade that is the most suitable to your home. Apart from the versatility it afforded, coloured laminate flooring is also considered the most suitable for contemporary design, which is one of the more popular architecture and interior decorating style
You sci fi geeks cant get enough of mosaics lately.
These Star Trek themed mosaics were created by Star Trek fan Devorah Sperber.
To recreate the look of being beamed up, Sperber used semi
translucent beads to thread the standing characters into shape. The
image of Captain Kirk (shown, right) uses 25,000 plastic beads strung
onto monofilament. “The beaded [...]
Portrait of Ben
11" x 14", coloured pencil on Saunders Waterford Hot Press
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
I did this coloured pencil portrait drawing of Ben in my drawing class last night. Some of you may remember the three pen and ink drawings I did on one large piece of paper about six weeks ago - Three perspectives on Ben - in this post.
I decided to just do the one drawing and see how far I
No matter if you spend $200 at the salon on highlights or use a $10 box of home colourant - fading is still a reality and a nightmare.
Here are a selection of products designed to maintain and extend colour between treatments and to provide nourishment and vitamins to enhance natural and infused hair colour.
Redken Color Extend
Redken’s Interbond Conditioning System and 360
Study: After Utagawa Kuniyoshi
coloured pencil on Polydraw film (see note)
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
The first "unwritten" rule of any art competition - particularly an open competition - is that the rules have to be clear. After all "The rules are the rules" aren't they?!
The second "unwritten rule" is that when an organisation changes the rules in any way from one year to the next, it must
Holi is a Happy festival of colours in India, people greets and cheer and celebrate Holi with Gulal, Colours…So as Holi is approaching Talkfree7 has something for you, the colourful messages / SMS / Text sites for you, enjoy Cheers! Do not forget to bookmark this page and site : )Featured Sites: Funny Holi SMS -sms.html#funny-holi-smsEnglish SMS: Holi-sms.html#english-holi-sms Hindi Holi SMS-sms.html#hindi-holi-sms Cool Free Holi SMS BEST Holi SMS for Indians / NRIs
I decided that I should so a post on medication. I'm often asked about my medication when I give public talks about depression. I get questions on side effects (both short and long term), dozes, types...you name it. Some I cannot answer. I am not a doctor. I can only speak from my experiences and from what I know. This section is based on that.
You need to know that medications work very
Midnight, High Tide. 11-12 ins square, acrylic and coloured pencil painting. Vivien BlackburnSo far all the paintings I've done of this subject have been daytime or evening - I wanted to catch a nightime view and also do a painting with the tide high.I underpainted in a mix of ultramarine and raw umber and white. Ultramarine or indigo and burnt umber are what Paynes Gray is made up with - so that's a colour you really don't need to buy. If you mix your own you can tip it slightly bluer or slightly browner and have a little variety, which I think is more interesting than a flat colour.I then added touches of colour on the cliffs, in the clouds and the sea in purple, blues, green, ochre and brown coloured pencils. The underlying acrylics create a unity of colour and help with the nig
Across the beach, late afternoon, cool day, charcoal and coloured pencil, 18 ins sq. Vivien BlackburnAnother experiment with the charcoal and coloured pencil combination on grey paper - this time I did something I rarely do and included figures and a dog - it helps give the scale of those cliffs and rocks - the figures should actually be slightly smaller but the pencils wouldn't cooperate any smaller than this :>)Done using willow charcoal, polychromos and Lyra coloured pencils and a battery operated eraser on grey rough paper (which eats the pencils).The curve in the horizon is the paper not lying flat - not me tipping the sea up! detail enlarged - on the drawing this is less than half an inch highthe figures are just very loosely suggested, with their dog playing in the water. detail fro
Kalakand is a much-loved sweet in Indian homes. It is milk-based treat that graces festivals, marriages, and many more celebratory events.Kalakand has a melt-in-the mouth feel. It is grainy in texture often due to the multiple milk based ingredients that make it up. The best Kalakand is that which is gently sweetened and allows the combination of both flavour and texture to explode simultaneously in a single bite. Though almonds, cashews, and indeed even walnuts can be added to Kalakand, I find that this indulgent sweet holds its flavour best when paired with pistachio nuts! Needless to say, this sweet is for everyone who loves milk, adores fudge, and has the desire to give in to toothsome delights every so often. And with Valentine's Day round the corner, what better treat for your sweet
beach, charcoal and coloured pencil, 7 x 7.5 inches Vivien Blackburn Experiments. The scan isn't level - the horizon is :>) - a small version of the charcoal/cp beach trying out a cream cartridge paper as the background. The toothier paper worked much better, this is a little too smooth. I also like working larger better. And the landscape below was a mixed media demo of acrylics loosely applied to grey card (which shows through in places) with a palette knife and then worked on with pastels and a little coloured pencil. Winter Fields. mixed media. Vivien Blackburn 8.5 x 5.5 inchesI'm hoping to push on with the canvasses tomorrow..
Evening Light across the Beach. Vivien Blackburn. Charcoal and coloured pencilThis is the charcoal drawing on grey paper that I showed you unfinished here: -update-february.html (scan down past the painting to it)I said that I was mulling over whether to simply use white pastel for highlights and keep it monochrome or add colour - and if colour what medium???I decided to try coloured pencils over the charcoal and see how they worked - they worked! I wanted to keep the colours very muted, this kind of evening light softens and dulls colours and the cliff was deeply shadowed and backlit.I worked in multiple glazes of colours to softly build white, blues, mauve, umber, sienna, peach, orange, ochres and a little green on the cliff top which doesn't show much onscreen as it's only a little. Th
I’ve just finished off the colouring on an illustration taken from a new book I am working on, featuring Tass-Heyah, a mermaid princess, and warrior. Despite her parents requests for her to act more ‘princess-like’, she is stronger and braver than most of Neptune’s own warriors…. When the great undersea city is attacked by a large shoal of hungry sharks, ells and nasty little fish, she takes it upon herself to do her part. When Neptune’s warriors fall at the city gates, all looks doomed, until Tass-Heyah leads the invading army away from the city, saving her people. As she darts between the corals and vines on the seabed, with the hungry horde behind her, she stumbles and falls into a deep ravine……..
When I login to my GMail this morning, I noticed a new featured on the top right of my IE7 browser. Google has released a new feature in GMail - coloured labels for emails. Previously you can label all your emails and you can only label them in green. Now you can choose different colours for different labels. It enhances the visibility by providing different choice of colours for labels. Unfortunately this feature is only available for IE7 and Firefox 2 browsers. I use IE7 browser at work but when I am at home I use Safari on my Apple computer and the feature is not available.
Better organize your email with new colored labels. Just click the color swatch next to each label to assign a color. PS: Feature works only with IE7 and FF2 and above.
Have you ever wanted to try colored contacts? I have. No kidding. I mean, yeah, when I was in college, I used to secretly poke fun at one of our classmates who wore purple contact lenses (she's Asian, by the way), and claimed that they were her real eye colour! But now, after looking at many pictures of lovely Asian women who wear coloured contact lenses, I'm itching to give it a go.Today it is easy because you can just order them directly over the internet. Colored contacts have really increased in popularity the last couple of years, you can see a lot of celebrities use them and they are a great resource for changing your apparel drastically for a time.Before buying the lenses it’s important to know however that the effect of the different lenses varies heavily depending on your own natural color.For instance a person with dark eyes has to use an opaque contact lens if they want to change the color to blue. While a person with natural blue eyes use a tinted lens which enhances th
Colour Comparison Charts - by Bob Ebdon
The Yellow Oranges Colour group
Today is a very grey day - and it's raining - so my thoughts naturally turn to colour. I think I do some of my most colourful work in the grey days of winter!
Recently, at the "Art Materials Live" exhibition at the NEC, I came across some new information on the UKCPS stand about colour in coloured pencils produced by Bob
Wired bikini in two-ply microfibre in melon coloured ajour pattern and chocolate lining
Foam padded cups for a push-up effect
Straps detachable at back and to tie at neck
Material:
90% Polyamid, 10% Elasthan
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Pastor Geneve
Ever heard of colored diamonds? Many people haven’t heard of these rare gems; or if they have heard of them it’s only when talking about big name celebrities. Stars like Jennifer Lopez and Oprah are known for their taste in beautiful, expensive, colored diamonds.
Pastor Geneve Colored diamonds are rarer than white diamonds. They can also be much more expensive depending on the diamond itself. But there are some of these diamonds out there that are affordable for everyday people.
Among these rare gems are both pink and blue diamonds. Pink diamonds and blue diamonds are the two most rare and most expensive diamonds in the world; they’re exquisite. Once you set your eyes on them, you’ll be hooked.
If you’re shopping for these rare diamonds and you want the real thing be sure not to be fooled by an imitation. Some stores advertise color treated diamonds as if they were genuine. A color treated diamond is one that has been manipulated in order to change the color.
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I did another drawing of that gourd to show the class different materials with the same subject.This one was done with that Lyra 'skin tones' set that I really like, plus a deep blue one to enhance the cool darkest darks. I really do like those Lyra coloured pencils.And this ugly little gourd is fun to draw :)and I've been tagged! by Karen Hall http://karens-gardenstudio.blogspot.com/ who does some beautiful work - take a look.I now have to give 7 facts about me ....1 I'm a new grandmother :)2 Though I love the sea i live about as far away as you can get from it in England now :(3 I have 2 lovely daughters4 and one Irish husband5 I have my imaginary list of what I'll buy/do 'when I win the lottery' - but very rarely buy a ticket6 I've been lucky enough to live in some very beautiful places including Gibraltar (it was lovely then), Malta, Scotland and Cornwall.7 I'm really tired and I've run out of ideas!and blogs I'll tag:Katherine http://makingamark.blogspot.com/
Japan remains hot for colours; journey is long but potential is great in China, said Gavin Pearce, senior sales executive at Argyle Diamonds, who also forecasts that demand from new markets and the diminishing supply of coloured diamonds will drive prices up.
The Order Beds
10" x 14" on Arches Hot Press
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
This is a sketch which I started a couple of weeks ago at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - or Kew Gardens as they popularly known and finished the next day. It's a view of the Order Beds (in the north eastern section of the garden or no 28 on the map) from the centre of that bit of the garden - looking towards the Temple
There is a recessive gene influence in white-long and short-haired cats that leads to inherited deafness - but not always. Experts commonly suggest that deafness in white cats is indicated by those with blue or odd-coloured eyes.
Sonoro Cubos of candy coloured goodness: "Whizz bang technology has a place (in my dreams, mainly) but there's a load of people out there who still want some basic functionality from their tech. And if it looks nice? Extra desirability points. Enter the Sonoro Cubos.(Via Shiny Shiny.)
This week one of my gifted students, Jenny, brought in a superb book by Shirley Trevena (you can see some of the work in it on her website) - an artist I really admire. One of the techniques she uses is rubbing watercolour pencils with sandpaper, over damp watercolour washes, giving a speckled effect - and it looks wonderful. http://www.shirleytrevena.com/ take a look at her gorgeous work :)Jenny lent me her pencils to have a go - so this is a very quick demo for the class - a play on cartridge paper with watercolour, watercolour pencils and sandpaper :) and ordinary coloured pencils (my own). We went on to discuss drawing with the 'wrong' end of the brush through damp paint to get those veins in the leaves and putting soft patches of normal coloured pencils in areas to enhance and push colours. They've all been used in this demo piece.I'm sold! I have to get some water soluble coloured pencils :) I think graphitints would be good for this as they are supposed to dry waterproof - w
There's a craze about Donuts now in Singapore. Donut Shops are opening one after another and the queue for them are ridiculously long. My son loves donuts but not me, so you won't catch me queuing up just to buy 2 donuts for him. It's crazy!Anyway, we can always making our own. In fact, floggers are already making it or writing about it! Look here and here. I too am going to try too! *wink* However, anything with Yeast in it will means you have to wait of at least an hour or two unless you have a bread machine, which I don't. Soooo, I have decided to experiment making donuts without yeast instead. And voila! See my ball donuts without using yeast! But I have to confess. It tasted more like cake but it smells so nice and it taste great too! My hubby and son said it even better than the yeast Donut! Waahh ... so comforting! LOL Hmm ... I haven't given up, yet! I'll be experimenting more! So watch my blog!Ingredients:// I'm not using a scale to get the measurement because it won't
This is a page of watercolour studies of pansies, not intended to be 'a painting', I did a while ago that I came across. It's a grey rainy day and the light isn't good to get on with the canvasses so I decided to try to pull it together as a composition. I used a bit more watercolour and coloured pencils and cropped it and added the soft blue green background to cool it down a little - the colours felt too hot. The deep dark pansies were really velvety and intense and maybe not the colour scheme I would have set out to use with the orange and pale yellows - but the background helps to knit them together. Bringing the soft mauves into the darker flowers also helped.I also took another look at a mixed media woodland that was unfinished and worked a little more on that.It has a little oil pastel in the early stages, watercolour and then coloured pencils.
"Swan Song"winner of the Derwent Award, UKCPS Annual Open Exhibition 200615.5" x 7", coloured pencils on Fabriano Artistico HPcopyright Beverly LewisFurther to yesterday's post, I have an update on advice about digital image submissions on CD to the UK Coloured Pencil Society's Annual International Open Exhibition 2007. Also, continuing the 'animals' theme started by yesterday's post, I now have an image by Bev Lewis, a UKCPS member and one of the prizewinners from last year's exhibition. However, just in case there is any confusion, I would like to emphasise that coloured pencil artists do portray a wide varieties of subjects other than animals! :DBob Ebdon, one of the founder members of UKCPS and its current webmaster, and Pat Heffer have very kindly provided some more information plus the advice provided to members and non-members wanting to submit entries on CD - and you can see this below.the standard size that most images are viewed at as a print is A5 that's148mm × 210
Whistling Duck at rest9" x 12", coloured pencils on Colourfixcopyright Leslie H EvansThe two major annual exhibitions of coloured pencil artwork by the CPSA and the UKCPS are both open and international - which means they accept work from any artist working in coloured pencil living anywhere in the world. Both are currently moving up a gear prior to the respective shows later this year.Colored Pencil Society of America - 15th Annual International Exhibition, BethesdaOn Saturday, the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) announced the artwork (and artists) accepted into the 15th Annual International Exhibition in Bethesda (July 14th - August 25th). You can see the list of artwork accepted and the artists who produced it here. CPSA enables maximum participation by artists at this open exhibition by limiting pieces shown to a maximum of one per artist. I'll be covering the artists awarded prizes following the announcements after the exhibition opens.I've included images of a coup
Two things that coloured pencil artists concern themselves with - when not drawing - is acquisition ('Do I have enough pencils?') and disposition ('What do I do with all those short stubby ones?')AcquisitionThe answer to the first question is an unequivocal "No". You can never have 'enough' pencils - unless you truly believe that you can produce everything you have ever wanted to draw with one red, one blue and one yellow pencil! Even when you settle on your brand of preference you can still get the heebies jeebies when you think you might not have enough stock of unused pencils in your favourite colours. Do I have tins containing stocks of unused pencils? Of course I have - with an elastic band round them to stop them from rolling around and getting damaged if the tin is handled! (Actually I have more than one tin....) I won't even refer to what happens when a favourite brand or colour is discontinued - it's too painful!In my experience, the dedicated coloured pencil ar
Noone really expected me wearing latex at the bloggers meetup in berlin last friday although several people asked me about it and I had to confess that I really was thinking about wearing some (that sounds as if my closet is filled with all kinds of latex stuff - it isn't, btw!). Robert and Luisa (aka style scout pointed out that there is another latex editorial in this month's UK Vogue. Thank tfs it's no problem to see it (I actually went straight to the newsstand the next morning, because I was so curious...). The model is Lara Stone photographed by Mario Testino.Please visit tfs for the whole spread.Credit: sethii at tfs
This is a hit! The kids love it and so does my hubby. This is not a kueh but Tofu with Fish Paste. I made these before but they were without the colours. Since the kids dislike eating vegetables, I incorporated vegetables to it. My son kept asking me why is the tofu so colourful and how did I make it. I only tell him after he finish it. He never guess it was the vegetables that he dislike.Ingredients:100g Fish Paste1 tube Egg Tofu, smashed1 tablespoon Finely Chopped Spinach2 tablespoon Grated CarrotHow to do it:Mix fish paste and egg tofu well.Take 1/3 of the mixture.Add in the Spinach and mix well.Add carrot to the remaining 2/3 of the mixture and mix well.Take a deep dish, lay cling wrap if you want easy removed.Spread the carrot mixture followed by the spinach.Cover with cling wrap.Steam for 15 minutes or till cooked.Removed and cut into pieces.Serve.Alternative:Pan fried the steamed tofu till slightly brown on all sides.Notes:No seasonings required as Fish Paste usually comes seaso
A sketch of Frog island, a grotty inner city industrial area, in watercolour and coloured pencil in the 11 inch square sketchbook.I really like to mix media, it gives me different marks and possibilities to draw on to push darks or emphasise lights.The tree is enhanced with a Lyra flourescent yellow pencil - the leaves were that incredibly bright and fresh spring green against the murky darkness of the old brick wall behind it.Behind the weir the water was inky dark and appeared still, although of course it wasn't. In front there was bright light reflecting and a jumble of ever changing (as the light changed) reflections. English weather isn't the easiest for sketching in! sometimes the light on the water reflected the bricks of the buildings clearly and at other it went dark with only hints of a reflection as clouds went over the sun.At one point the friend I was sketching with stood helpfully in front of the scene :>) I was drawing
From pastel to fluo... colored jeans are hot. In a way it's amazing this hasn't been taken on as a trend before (Sass and Bide did it a few years ago, but it didn't really stick). Already we're seeing some pairs on the street - Christina Aguilera (looking really trampish, btw), Ashley Simpson, Fergie and Rachel Bilson: Carmen Electra has also been spotted sporting this... interesting trend, too. So, where are they getting their gear? From left to right: Citizens of Humanity, BDG, Ksubi: Denim of Virtue:And, if you want to test the waters with this trend, Topshop and Oasis (left, right) won't cause such a dent in your bank balance:Lee also are producing some pastel varieties (how 80s). And, for the creative among us, LA clothing store The Hundreds is telling us to buy a pair of Public Label Straight & Narrow white jeans and colour them yourself (http://www.denimology.co.uk/2007/03/public_label_diy_coloured_deni.php#more). Interesting. Overall, though, the first thing to notice is
I need to do some more of the long thin seascapes in the Time and Tide series for a couple of galleries so I decided to have a play in coloured pencil from sketches and paintings done at the coast and the last one simply playing with colour and shapes and taking a different viewpoint - looking back at the land instead of out to sea or along the beach. The majority of my seascapes look out at the sea as that's the view we commonly get - but looking back at the land from the water gives an interestingly different perspective. I must do more of these.These are only small, about 7.5 ins tall, coloured pencil in the moleskine.I wasn't planning on them being anything other than sketches but it occurs to me that a row of them in coloured pencil might be worth framing. I have to write a press release now and update a group website but I keep getting distracted by the amorous squirrels in the garden - it looks like we could have babies before long by this behaviour! and noisy sparrows dispu
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I should be doing lots of things instead but I wanted to draw - so I did :) ... and now I have to face the dirty dishes, pile of washing and tidying up :( I did this from a combination of the sketches I did on the beach at sunset and memory. I've done a series of works from those sketches - in oil, pastel and digital images. It was interesting to see just how intense and dark it's possible to go with coloured pencils. I think they hold up well in comparison with other media. I'm speeding up with them and can now imagine sketching more with them plein air. I think they'll feature more often in my sketchbooks in the future. It was done with a mix of Polychromos, Lyra and cheapo Tescos coloured pencils and one Derwent. I like the heavier waxier Polychromos and Lyra - in future I'll know which to go for. Luckily I took the advice of expert CP users and bought quite a few polychromos - the Derwent is an old one, though it's good I don't like it as much. The moleskine
I knew that people had said that moleskines didn't take watercolour - but I had to find out for myself :>)I started off with a rough pencil sketch of a marsh harbour at Brancaster Staithe from the small moor on the hill above. It's a tiny area but real moorland with gorse and bracken and rocks.The watercolour just rolled off its waxy surface and had to be scrubbed in quite drily to get it to stay on the paper at all! Definitely not one to try again - maybe gouache? or acrylic?Then I used coloured pencils to reinforce colours, letting some of the watercolour that 'stuck' show through.A mix of Polychromos, Lyra, Derwent and some cheap unnamed supermarket coloured pencils were used, reinforced with graphite pencil.This is a view I'd like to do in oils some time, working plein air. It was done from a photograph taken when I sketched there last year. There's a wonderful view from the moor, known as The Common, of the harbour with its islands and twisting creeks, reed beds and salt mar
This is the second of two posts providing an overview of abrasive supports for use with pastels. Yesterday's post discussed a range of supports - Ampersand Pastelbord, Art Spectrum Colourfix and Ersta Sanded Paper.Today's post covers four different surface:Jack Richeson Premium Pastel Surface (new product)Sennelier La Carte Pastel (Pastel Card) / Rembrandt Pastel Board.Schminke Sansfix PastellkartonWallis PaperFuture posts will cover making your own abrasive supports using pumice or marble dust and this will be covered in a future blog post and the velour type papers.Quotes (in the boxes) which follow are all from the Dakota Pastels website unless otherwise indicated. I was generally impressed with the presentation of information on this website - which specialises in pastels and associated art materials.Jack Richeson Premier Pastel SurfaceJack Richeson is introducing a new pastel surface produced on three different substrates:140lb. paper, 1/8” hardboard and 3/16” Gator Boar
Christmas in Cheshire available via the Art for UK Youth North 2007 exhibition in April)5" x 15", coloured pencils on Art Spectrum Colourfixcopyright Katherine TyrrellI really like making a mark on an abrasive support when developing artwork involving either pastels or coloured pencils. So how come I've not done an overview about abrasive supports before? This post begins to remedy that problem and completes with a second post tomorrow.Why use abrasive supports for pastels and coloured pencils? I use an abrasive support for pastels because I find it invariably gives me much greater control over my soft pastel sticks. Adhesion is also very much better than when pastel is used on paper. Abrasive supports vary as to how much pigment can be laid down before the tooth is 'full' - some have such a good grip they positively eat soft pastel sticks.The way I use my coloured pencils on abrasive supports is very similar to the way I use pastels. The only real difference seems to be
