Louise's ARTiculations
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. This quotation accurately describes the problems I have had creating a free vintage ebook that I promised all subscribers to my newsletter. Everything blog related (or should I say … Read More
A series of free vintage portraits. A Voyage in Time is a free ebook available exclusively for all subscribers to my newsletter. Since January, I have been painting one vintage portrait a week…well, to be honest, I did miss a … Read More
Featuring guest artist, hania kaczanowska. Hania or Anne Kaczanowski, is a Canadian artist from Alberta. I met Anne online in last year’s Paint your Heart and Soul class with Olga Furman. Anne’s beautiful paintings are filled with emotions and colour … Read More
Pet portrait portfolio on YouTube channel… Yes, I am proud to say that I have created my own YouTube channel and uploaded a first video. Yesterday, I experimented with an app that allowed me to set the timing for … Read More
My garden is poetry… For Throwback Thursday, I am publishing this post from June 2016. “A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me … Read More
Graphite sketch results in intimate knowledge of facial features. Progress in my graphite portraits occurs slowly but I can see improvements with today’s sketch of a total stranger. One gains intimate knowledge of another person with this type of exercise. … Read More
For this ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), I am looking to my early days of blogging. I published this post in August 2015. These sketches were completed from free online tutorials before I began taking different online courses. While I still love … Read More
Unwanted attention: working within a time limit. Unwanted attention is a charcoal sketch worked within a time limit. Well, that was the goal. But like so many other works of art, I get carried away with the fine tuning in … Read More
I am happy to share the work of other artists and promote creatives on this blog with guest posts. Please contact me if you are interested in being featured as a guest artist. Inge Zoet lives in Heerhugowaard, in the Netherlands. … Read More
For Throwback Thursday, I have selected three of the first journal pages from June 2015. The first colourful journal page is good practice for later portraits. I was simply experimenting and having fun. I also sketched my dog and some … Read More
