My Love - customised Valentines Art by Alison Fennell

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Say it simply this year guys! This is a customisable heart print for the love of your life.

With the words My Love in several languages forming the shape of the heart you can add your lady’s name inside - a very subtle and thoughtful message for February 14th!

This is an 8×10 inch photo size print on sumptuous Velvet Epson fine art 260gsm paper - and its made to last. Epson claim these prints can stay true to their original appearance for over 70 years!

SPECS

Size 8×10 inches - landscape format

Backround colour - soft pink

Text colour - grey

Custom name and MY LOVE text colour - burgundy

You can purchase any pre-made standard 8×10 inch photo frame from any department store and slip the print in - easy as pie!

I usually take around 1-2 days to create and shop your print so plenty of time to get your Valentine’s gift.

So to shop for your please click this link below

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/thelittlepicturecompany/product/personalised-my-love-valentines-heart-print

Been Art Shopping - always a good thing to do!

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Well for some reason I have the urge to get into my pastel portrait painting more deeply - so of course I had to get a few more BITS for my pastel set-up now didn’t I!?

First my big collection of UNISON soft pastels needed complementing with a BIG set of Prismacolor Nu pastels which are hard. These I need for doing very fine touches around facial features and so I got a set of 96 for about £100 on ebay.

Here’s a pic of them.

Luscious Prismacolor Nupastels - hard ones for fine detail...

Luscious Prismacolor Nupastels - hard ones for fine detail…

I also really needed a small table easel (my studio isn’t really big enough for a mammoth full size floor one. I find when I do people portraits that working at a vertical plane gives me better results - so I hopped over to Ken Bromley Art Supplies and got a Loxley Bamboo table easel - as shown for about £18.

smashing little table easel for doing pastel portraiture

smashing little table easel for doing pastel portraiture

Finally (not related to pastel) I had bought a new copy of my old fave book Watercolor: You Can Do It! by my hero Tony Couch. He taught me so much in my early days 20 years or more ago.

Now I will re-read and absorb again as my old copy had bits that I had cut out and stuck in photo albums so was missing a lot of important text.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone starting in watercolour

I strongly recommend this book for anyone starting in watercolour

Next - find a suitable image to paint!

Have a great weekend.

Watercolour Crab Demo for Beginners - sit back and enjoy!

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This is a 30 minute demo I filmed this afternoon. CLICK on the CRAB image below to VIEW :)

Using blues and greens I painted a simple watercolour crab.

 

 

Watercolour Poppy Video - sit back and enjoy!

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Took me ages to upload it - I almost lost the will to live when YouTube announced to me that a 10 min video would take 189mins to upload!

Close up of finished poppy in watercolour 7x10 inches

Close up of finished poppy in watercolour 7×10 inches

Here is the link - simply click and you are there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_lfo_imCM&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy!

The Fox Vanishes - Game 2 - Deadline for Entries Sat 25th Jan

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Welcome to Game 2! Please see how to play below and deadline - good luck!

In this game I will be placing a faded out fox (here he is below at full strength) on a certain animal print in my online gallery at Eastwitching (www.eastwitching.etsy.com).

fox june cropYou will need to scour the selected items (usually about 12) that come up when you click the link I will provide each game.

When you find the faded fox image on the animal image in question DO NOT SAY WHERE IT IS in comments on this post.

Simply convo me with your ANSWER at eastwitching@hotmail.com or convo me at Etsy if you have an account there.

THEN leave a comment ON THIS POST saying WHICH PRINT you would like to receive if your entry is selected.

Selection is made randomly using RANDOM.ORG two weeks after the game is announced.

WANT TO PLAY? - GAME TWO of The Fox Vanishes.

How to play …

1 Click on this LINK and start searching all of the animal images that come up. On one of them there is a faded out fox like the bold one in this post above.

2 Convo me via Etsy or email me at eastwitching@hotmail.com with your answer

3 Come back to this post and say which animal print you would like to win from my gallery HERE - you can choose ANY print and shipping is free worldwide too!

4 Deadline for entries is MIDNIGHT GMT Saturday 25th Jan

5 Winning entry selected on Sunday 26th Jan and new game announced that same day.

To start hunting the fox click HERE! Good luck:)

How to paint a black dog in watercolour

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Here is a black dog I painted in watercolour for an upcoming workshop demo I am doing.

I used Saunders Waterford High White Hot Pressed 140lb paper and the paints are listed on the first step by step sheet - have a go if you want - Alison