Art and crafts blog posts about all things art, crafts and design by Annabel Potter. Includes other artists work as well as Annabel’s and art found during her travels.
The Christmas season has started and I’m pleased to say I’m busy, hence the lack of a post last week. I’ve therefore decided to postpone the rest of my alphabet challenge until January but I wont disappear from blogging completely between now and then, so dear readers please don’t abandon me! I have managed to do …
I’m a bit behind this week having had visitors and a tummy bug! However I did manage to paint this red lemur for my challenge, in my usual style painted with glass paint on acetate and placed over an acrylic painting on canvas. For letter L businesses I discovered there is a lemur conservation foundation: ‘DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND …
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 …
