I’ve been quite quiet recently as I’m busy creating a new website – which will be more of a portfolio type site – a bit more official looking! I’m really excited about this after having a blog now for a couple of years – it feels like the next step for me. I’ll post here… Read More New website coming soon
For me making art is all about having fun, by experimenting and playing. If I do the same thing for too long I get bored and want to try something new – I’m not great at sticking to the same way of producing something (although I think I am developing more of my own style… Read More Trying out lots of new things
Some of my favourite colourful pictures from the last few weeks. You can never have enough colour! These ones were adding colour into pen and pencil drawings in my old sketchbook…. These are from my new sketchbook which I started last week (I do like a nice empty sketchbook to play with!)…. And this one… Read More Colour colour colour and more colour
Today I challenged myself to see what would happen if I painted for more than 30 minutes! I would like to do it for a whole day, but I’ve got to start somewhere with it. I started off with an entry in my art journal – taking a piece of old art work from a… Read More An experiment …. what happens if I sit down to paint for 2 hours?
Continuing on with the art journalling / collage theme I have been doing some more daily sketchbook pages – which I’m loving. Plus it’s making me do more during the day as well. Here are some of the results from the last week, and I have decided to try taking photos of them with my… Read More Work from the week – having lots of fun with colour and responding to old art work
I’ve been having a go at art journaling – mostly inspired by various people I have seen on Instagram. It isn’t something I’ve done before, and I haven’t used words so far, but just starting from some items – bits I’ve torn from magazines that I find visually interesting, and also torn up bits of… Read More Art journaling
I’ve been doing far too much painting and drawing to put it all into my blog over the last few weeks (which I’m so chuffed about, although I’m not sure what to do with it all exactly). And my creating session yesterday afternoon was a particularly good one – playing around with layering of different… Read More I love when things all seem to come together
The way I like to work is sitting down for short bursts of creativity – enough to keep the energy going and not long enough to get bored! This was my 15 minutes of creativity from this afternoon – 5 x A3 paintings. I felt like doing something quite free and using a thick black… Read More 15 minutes of creativity
I’ve been thinking a lot over the last few days about what it means to be an artist, what an artist actually is, and how I talk about my work. I went to a talk on Friday night which was part of the national Arts and Wellbeing week, which includes lots of exhibitions, talks and… Read More What is an artist? Thoughts from the week
I haven’t done much art work for the last few weeks. Sometimes, when I’m not feeling at my most positive, it is hard to make something, but actually that is the time when I most need it. Partly due to this, and partly inspired by going to an artist talk on Friday evening, I sat… Read More From collage to butterfly prints
Artwork by Jane Robertson
Artwork by Jane Robertson
Napkin Doodles around the Neighborhood and Beyond
drawing out the best in our streets
Sketches and drawings 