by anna@shinyhappyart.com | May 13, 2021 | Drawing, Drawing, Freebies, How To, Video, Watercolour
I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, but I love the challenge of painting or sketching something for May the Fourth Be With You day each year, and seeing the progress in my art. This year I surprised myself with this sketch, and I can honestly say I have NEVER sketched...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Feb 18, 2021 | How To, Paint Alongs, Paintings, Shiny Happy Ideas, Watercolour
Ahhh, what’s so good about a #collection? You get to explore a topic, or an art supply, with purpose. You create an impressive body of work. You have the opportunity to see your skills improve between artwork 1 and Artwork 8 (or 12 or 20 or 31 or 54 or 100) You...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Feb 18, 2021 | How To, Shiny Happy Ideas
I’ve had five Zoom calls with lovely Shiny Happy Art Club Members this week, and I found myself recommending SAMPLERS a few times. These two are on Scrap Book Covers (I use them for planning) from 2017 and 2018. The thing with Samplers is: – you get to...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Jan 14, 2021 | How To, Paintings
PAINT IT AGAIN. That’s my message for today. The more you look at a subject, and then paint or draw it, the more you will SEE. Here’s a photo of Cape Tribulation that my friend, Larah, has taken – I painted it (small) as part of my #shacards series...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Nov 5, 2020 | How To, Online Paint Alongs, Paint Alongs
On New Years Day 2017 I started deliberately trying to sketch every day. I decided on ‘everyday-ish’ and the first sketch was not about much – an empty chocolate nuts bottle and a pair of scissors or something… sketched with coloured biros. As...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | May 12, 2020 | Drawing, Drawing, Freebies, Group Paint Alongs, How To, Uncategorized, Watercolour
It seemed, that because we’re all home on Saturday nights during COVID, it was a great opportunity to have a global Drink and Draw – social drawing session. So I did. For 8 weeks in a row. And it’s been AMAZINGLY GREAT. All the live videos are still...
