by Alison | color techniques, Colored Ink Art, Colored pencil, Sketchbook
Intro On Mother’s Day I was fortunate enough to receive this beautiful orchid from my daughters. It was totally unexpected as I’ve never owned an orchid before. I decided to do a sketchbook drawing of this orchid as it had such an interesting form....
by Alison | Nature Journal, Pen and Ink
Inspiration As a part of working on my nature journal, last weekend I went down to the beach at the coast in Vancouver. I was there last week but this week I walked further round the promenade and came across the massive inukshuk. An inukshuk is a figure made of piled...
by Alison | Colored Ink Art, Flower Press
Inspiration In the first week of May I discovered the YouTube channel Daily Nature Journal and I was inspired to start a nature journal. Alex showed some pressed flowers that he was using in his nature journal and I was so interested, I decided to order a flower press...
by Alison | Nature Journal, Pen and Ink
This week I went to the beach where the protected waters of English Bay laps desultorily at the coast in Vancouver. Just behind the foreshore and promenade is a well manicured strip of parkland comprising grass and flowers to enhance the nature beauty of the area. ...
by Alison | Nature Journal
Inspiration The idea of having a Perpetual Nature Journal which is different to a normal nature journal is that rather than starting at the front and working towards the back, depending on where I went and what I saw, I will be focusing on one or two nature features...
by Alison | Ink and Watercolor, Markers, Pen and Ink, Sketchbook
Sketching This weekend I had planned to go to the beach. It’s a short bus ride from my home and very pleasant to spend time there on one of my precious days off. Unfortunately, it continued to rain which seemed to be set in for the whole day. My original idea...
by Alison | Markers, Sketchbook
Fibonacci I’ve always been interested in symbols and patterns and particularly the patterns found in nature. The work we are about to draw is one of those natural patterns that pops up all over the place. The Fibonacci sequence is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21… and...
by Alison | Neurographic Art
Inventor Read more about the Neurographic Art inventor Psychologist Pavel Piskarev https://www.neurographica.us/author. Introduction In this post, I’m going to share with you how I made these neurographic art Artist Trading Cards (ATC’s) which are...
by Alison | Neurographic Art
Inventor Read more about the Neurographic Art inventor Psychologist Pavel Piskarev https://www.neurographica.us/author. Sayings to Live By This artwork shows how you can combine sayings and or words with neurographic Art. This is a quote from Shakespeare’s...
