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Painted tag

May 15, 2009 – 2:08 pm

Arrgh, I m running late for a train but I couldn’t go without posting this. I have been making some painted tags for a swap, and here’s the one I didn’t send (didn’t like the girl’s flesh-tone, so opted for white in the end). But the doodled manga girl is a side of me that [...]

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Technique of the week: easiest spring background ever

March 12, 2009 – 2:09 pm

It is almost embarrassing to write a tutorial on this because it’s so easy, but just in case someone hasn’t thought of doing it before, here goes. The prettiest way to come up with a background in fresh spring colours is to use watercolours because they have such a transparent quality that immediately evokes the [...]

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Mummy, I paint better than…

March 20, 2008 – 11:40 pm

Ever since turning three last July, Niccolo has displayed an increasingly competitive streak. “I am taller than Andrian because I eat more.” Or “I play football better than Uncle Paolo.” And, of course: “I paint better than you, Mummy.” Which, incidentally, doesn’t take much. Better than Mummy’s paintings, no doubt Lately, however, his benchmarks have [...]

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Portrait of the artist as a young man

March 16, 2008 – 3:46 am

A hard day’s painting—trying his hand at canvas for the first time. Green on canvas

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Painting with my son

March 10, 2008 – 5:56 am

Perhaps it’s because I am a crafts addict, but I like to get my son involved in painting, collageing, stamping and drawing. Niccolo’s abstract painting For me, little beats the time we sit side by side at the kitchen table, smearing temperas over a piece of paper, our fingers stained with paint.I like to let [...]

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