I’m loving painting in miniature and I’ve now got the ACEO bug. Maybe it’s because I’m short, only 4ft11″! My miniature paintings on jewellery have gone down well and I’ve only recently discovered ACEO, which stands for art cards, editions and originals. They are an affordable way to buy and collect art, 2.5 by 3.5 …
We had a beautiful sunny day yesterday and coupled with the fact that all my shops, twitter, facebook now have my new animal name I’m feeling generous, so decided to have a 4 day summer sale starting today until Sunday. So a good time to get your animal mad friends, family or yourself a present! …
Last week was a week of new things, so I thought I’d write about some of them and would love to hear your thoughts 1) I had a go at painting in a different style, slightly abstract. This was in miniature form and started out with one of my bees and a rose, so initially …
As promised my first giveaway and the chance to win a hand painted necklace pendant with a runner up prize of 25% off at animalglassdesigns 🙂 It’s to celebrate that my website not only links to my Etsy and Folksy shops but now has the functionality to buy my new animal pendants directly from the …
I promise not to bamboozle you with science but there are 2 schools of thought on this! Artists appreciate that black can be created by mixing different colours but white cannot. However scientists would say black is not a colour because black objects don’t reflect any colours of light whereas we see white when an …
I’ve just painted a horse on a coaster and only when I’d finished him did I realise that I’d painted on the wrong side of the coaster! The fused glass coasters I use, hand-made in the UK by Bea Schirmer, have a shiny side and a slightly rough side. I usually paint on the rough …
Oh dear, hadn’t realised it was quite so long since I wrote my last blog post! In my defence I have been away for some of that time and I’ve been experimenting with combining acrylic painting with glass painting. As you probably now know I love trying new ideas but this time I am sticking …
I’m starting to add background to more of my animal paintings now and generally pleased with the results. It can be quite tricky painting around the animals because unlike painting on paper you can’t overlap glass paint because the original colour can be seen from the other side of the glass. This means I’m unable …
My latest painting is a ginger cat on a glass mug and I added the goldfish bowl for a bit of character! Hope you like him. Trying to get the colour ginger was quite difficult, I used orange, white and a spot of brown in the end. However having looked at other people’s work ginger …
