Macro Owl

I took this while at Glastonbury Abbey seeing the birds of prey. This one was taken just as the owl was shaking himself down and I love it.

I have been very busy this last week and not had much time to update but I promise that will change, fingers crossed anyways.

Enchanted Art Studio

Street Dancing Plymouth

Street Dancing Plymouth, a photo by Lee Webb Artist on Flickr.

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Butterfly Tattoo Inked by me

Yesterday I had my first client for tattooing since we left Cornwall, for Plymouth.

The studio is finally up and running and it was time to test my new working environment. I inked this butterfly below on a shoulder. It represents her struggle with weight loss and she will have one butterfy tattoo'd for each stone lost. This is her first. Well done!

This photo shows how tiny the actual butterfly is.

Happy Glastonbury Contemporary Pagan Exclusive Art

The Goddess a beautiful piece of art freely given to us by the Wonderful and Talented Artist at Happy Glastonbury, a local shop selling the most awesome pagan, spiritual gifts and Art in Glastonbury. If your in Glastonbury this shop is a must.

She is now the feature of our bay window in our living room and looks completely at home, even the kittens are giving her a wide berth.

Glastonbury is a lovely place, with so many things to see and do especially if your a practising pagan, we managed to squeeze in so much in the two days we were there and i took some fantastic photo's of birds of prey at the Glastonbury Abbey, and some awesome flower close ups at the famous World Healing Centre Chalice Well.

We were also very lucky to be allowed to attend the Maitreya Project Heart Shrine Relic World Tour at Chalice Well of which I have some amazing photo's of the Relics and even some very strange ones.

Keep an eye out over the coming week to see some of the photos of our trip, some of which I am hoping to transform into contemporary oil paintings this year.

Happy Glastonbury

Sometimes an email is awesome!

I get hundreds of emails a day wading through them is like wading through mud sometimes, sometimes I just select all, delete but that's very rare.

Occasionally though, an exciting mail shot creeps into my vision, I click thinking omg could this really be an offer I cant refuse, after refusing 99 other, I cant refuse offers?

One such mail hit me today, its from the Jackson Art Supplies store, a store that I buy from and a store whose mail shot I have signed up for; this mail contained a link, a link to a colour mixing interactive chart. It uses Acrylics from Golden but its an awesome bit of kit. You can upload a picture, click on a section on the picture a voilà, the chart shows you the colour and how to mix it

Click here for more information, go on, its worth it!!!

Step by step guide to drawing correct human proportions

Human Figure Drawing Proportions

Technical chart for teaching human proportions

Proportions Of The Human Figure | School Charts | Educational Posters

Its been a massive week for me

I have had so much going on this week with working a full time job, planning out my first few tattoo clients tattoos' at my new studio and busily preparing for a short weekend away to Gastonbury next week its been manic and I have had no time to post.

So this is a brief update of my life, its hectic, its manic, its full, its tiring but I woulld not change it for the world.

In other news, we are getting a chocolate labrador puppy to add to our menagery and Sammy is busy tapping away looking at all the puppies to choose from;  I'd better get them there tattoo guns a working quick time

I have also been asked to provide the story board and artwork for a new adult dark fantasy comic, its mad I'm scared and nervous but thrilled to be asked

I am not able to give you a synopsis of the comic but all I can say is watch out Marvel!!!!

Pyrography

I found a lovely website Click here today via Twitter of an artist who specialises in Pyrography Art, an art which both myself and my wife Sammy have recently acquired some skill in.

Pyrography is the burning of a design, say a landscape, onto a piece of wood or leather, or anything really that will burn withough being destroyed. I guess it really smoulders the support with which you are using at the time but its easier to describe the action as burning.

Take a look at this basic video below to see what its all about, happy art making you guys.

Art Tutor has launched

Art Tutor launched this week and promises to be an exciting new way for artists of all levels to brush up on skill that they need. Video tutor-age seems to be the order of the day, with step by step, bite sized chunks guiding you through all you need to know in a variety of mediums.

Take a foundation course in Watercolour, Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting, Pastel and Drawing plus much much more. What's more is you can pick and choose what you want to learn through the entire range and all for just a small subscription of £10 pcm if your based in the UK. You can cancel once youve finished what you want to learn its that simple.

Click the picture to see for yourself what its all about, I shall be taking up a subscription myself.

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This was taken with my blackberry torch to capture a love heart found on the side of my wife Sammy's coffee cup

Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media

A selection of my recent pictures untouched

Some photographs that I am planning on developing into paintings or for Digital Manipulation.

Working on my blog content

I have been working on my blog content today and you will find some new things appeared on the right hand side. Firstly there is a Video feature linked to the Painting and Drawing Channel, which features tutorials from some of the best art teachers in the UK in a range of media, Oil Painting, Pastel Painting, Watercolour Painting and Drawing.

I have also added two link sections which contains 10 top links I think my readers, that's you, would be interested in. The first section contains Art related links including education, art supply stores and resources. The second section includes links to artists that I admire, whose work I find interesting and thought provoking. These links will be updated regularly so check back for more.

For a snippet of the Painting and Drawing Channel here is a taster video to get you started

Study Art at Home Home Study Art Course

Every so often I would like to include in my blog snippets of information I have found regarding art and one section of this is courses.

Not everyone can study art at college or on tutored holidays, because its expensive or they are unable to get out the house or they are just shy and intimidated by the thought of going to college, "I'm not good enough for that!" is a phrase that I often here, usually in my own thoughts.

A good way to learn art is to do so in the comfort of your own home and the London Art College is a great way to achieve this, you can take certificate courses or diploma courses in many different media or subject matter that takes your fancy.

These courses can be done at your own pace and you get tutor marked assignments to complete, all of which can be done on-line or by post. You can pay for the course in one go or in instalments making it a flexible way to learn.

I myself have taking a certificate in Coloured Pencil, which I am working towards as I write this, I lack confidence with a pencil so this a great way for me to brush up on drawing skills while at the same time learning a new medium with which to paint. I shall post my work as I complete it over the coming year.

If you'd like to consider a course or for more information, just click on the picture below and it will take you right to the London Art College website. Happy Learning!!!!

Par Beach Spring Evening

ParBeachSpringEvening, a photo by Lee Webb Artist on Flickr.

After some thought I decided to use this section of the painting as a finished peice in its own right after all I think it looks good compositionally, the strokes are free and loose and I'm happy with it. I shall develop the 2nd part to this and maybe make a few studies for a series of paintings. Who knows?

Par Beach Spring 2012 Digital Art

This painting is the initial stages of a developing art works, the first I have ever tried on a digital canvas. I am using Art Rage Studio Pro as the platform to develop the painting and my newly purchased Bamboo Tablet by Wacom.

I found it difficult at first especially as you have a wealth of settings and tools to choose from when using a digital art platform but after the initial hesitations that one feels with a new medium I settled in. This started off   as a sky experimentation and has developed from there. The initial painting is laid out and I have some manipuation to do, plenty of developing and then finishing touches. I expect I will fiddle for hours and hours to come before this is finished.

Here is the first stage, took me about 3hrs to get this far but hey whose counting?

Digital Oil Paint - Artrage Studio Pro

While my studio is being built this is the only way I can paint as everything else is packed let me know what you think!!!!

A tablet for my Illustrator Program

This is the Wacom Bamboo CTH-670 pen and touch tablet which gives you a platform to use programs like Artrage, Illustrator and Photoshop with ease.

I have got it out the box and spent nearly 3hrs setting it up and working through the tutorials, now I cannot wait to paint with it.

Even artists need dummies!

This is a great tool for starting out with illustrator, it explains all the necessary need to know bits to get you started without the techy jargon, it truly is for dummies and as I'm a dummy I'm qualified to say it works :-)

UKCPS Watercolour Pencil Tutorial

Hi Folks,

I don't know how many of you might be interested, but some of you may
recall we did an online exercise of a landscape using watercolour
pencils a year or so ago ( over the winter ) and around a dozen members
of the UKCPS Forum took part (and discussed their progress or lack of
it) - much of which was later published as The Allerford Tutorial on
www.penciltopics.co.uk

I am just about to get under way with another exercise that will build
into a quite big step by step tutorial.
This one is a street scene in Malcesine on Italian Lake Garda and
contains mainly buildings ( with a token tree).
I have just posted up the reference and will add to the notes as the
days go by, hopefully completing the picture and the notes before September.

If you want to follow along, have a look at
http://www.penciltopics.co.uk/page176.html
The tutorial also has links from the site home page so you can find it
again if you lose that reference.

I don't need you to get in touch, but if you do want to discuss what I
am doing in a similar group to last time, please let me know and I will
add you in to an EMail ring.

Cheers

Peter Weatherill
www.penciltopics.co.uk : 299 pages of free information
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and Pencil techniques

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