Alphabet challenge by the blogger Annabel Potter to paint an animal for every letter of the alphabet. Includes blog posts for her first challenge painting miniature ACEO, followed by a later project to do an animal alphabet colouring book.
The choice was between a kiwi, kangaroo, koala and kudu. Koala won the day, as they are of course incredibly cute animals! This time I painted the background using acrylics on 270gsm brown paper, rather than painting white paper a dark colour. I think it works quite well and I’ve painted more leaves on the acetate …
I’ve just delivered my paintings to the Well Café in Exeter and it will be great to see them all on the gallery wall together. A number of my alphabet challenge paintings are there and it’s exciting to see what the reaction will be! This week is letter K in my alphabet challenge and not much to choose …
My letter J art challenge results ended up having a cat theme, as mentioned in my earlier post. Of course the big cat is a Jaguar. It most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger. The …
I’m a bit late with my first post this week but I do have some fantastic news to share with you. Next week some of my mixed media paintings will be on display in a local cafe and for a whole month 23rd Oct-22nd Nov. The Well Cafe, Okehampton street, Exeter is a lovely cafe …
I can’t believe it’s been 2 months since I started this alphabet challenge. The good thing is I am still very much enjoying it! There were not too many choices for the letter I and I’ve gone for an Iguana ACEO and an Irish Setter dog SFA painting (small format art, as explained in last …
You may have guessed from the title my rescue cat is now with me and I was greeted with lots of meows! I’ve called her Lottie, the third consideration after Bella and Millie. She was found in a shopping car park, is between 1-2 yrs old and had been with Cats Protection for 3 months. …
Three of the H animals got votes this week- hedgehog, hippopotamus and hare. I’ve not done the hare yet, been distracted with getting a rescue cat but that’s another post! I have painted a hippo mixed media ACEO and hedgehog canvas, which can apparently both be classed as SFA. A new term I’ve learnt this …
This weeks alphabet challenge is the letter H and I found this cute hedgehog video to show you. As voting went down well last week, I thought I’d put it to the vote again. Please do choose which animal you’d like me to paint this week and put any suggestions for businesses connected to animals whose …
Thank you to everyone that voted in my alphabet challenge and giraffe won the day with gazelle getting some votes too. However I was on a roll this week, so ended up painting a gorilla too! Here they are with all the animals painted with glass paint, as usual. I don’t think I’ve got the giraffe quite …
I’ve just returned from a lovely short break away in Suffolk, visiting a friend who I don’t see that often because it’s a 6 hour journey. A long way in the UK! Hence I painted this flamingo before I went, for my letter F challenge. It is an ACEO (art card editions and originals 3.5 …
