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He’s a cutie 🥰

Primroses. I don't have any acrylic markers yet. Can anyone suggest a good set to buy for first attempts? I don't want to commit to an expensive set until I'm sure I will like them.

Really enjoyed painting the primroses - I really got lost in process and

found it a mindful moment whilst creating the flowers. Thank you for

a lovely class Irene!

Another fun session. I really enjoy combining media like this. I think my hedgehog might be about to produce hoglets!

We haven’t had hedgehogs in the garden for a few years now. I think the local foxes and badgers have scared them away.

I like the idea of this and if my hedgehogs were just a bit better I would really like it. I would love to use this method to capture a place that is important to me. I will definitely be giving this another go in the future. Thank you.

I loved doing this!

I have never used Acryllic paint markers to paint/draw an entire painting. My new Ohuhu paint markers are so luxurious to use. I loved this lesson. Thank you Irene 🥰🥰🥰

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I am really enjoying drawing with colour pencils

I loved this lesson . The sealife scene takes on a fantasy underwater painting I think

Here's my pup. I do love using coloured pencils.

Class today referencing Erin Hansen painting. This one is watercolor and guache. I bit too bright. Will leave it till tomorrow and work on it again.

Finally joined Sketch Hub

Still life. I used oil pastels for the main shapes and pencils for the details and shading.

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s made me think of Lake Garda where we went on holiday a year and a half ago. I loved how you taught us to go about painting this Irene . Thank you 😊😊😊

I teally enjoyed painting this. It teally uplifted me. Thank you sweet, very talented Irene

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I scrolled through the archives and found this class from back in April 2024. I love that we have all these old lessons to rummage around in looking for inspiration. I think I've made the head too big for the body to be realistic, but on the other hand I think the bigger head makes it look super cute!

This was a true mix of multimedia - watercolour, black gouche, and colour pencils. I have never done a black sky before

Northern lights painting. I went through a stage of thinking it was all going to be a chaotic mess, but once the details were added later on it all came together. Irene keeps telling us to trust the process, and this piece showed me how very important that is

Inspired by last week's cardinal, I had a go at one of my favourite birds, a wren.

I loved doing this Irene. Doing your gorgeous lessons is helping in the healing of Bronchitis which got out of control. So looking forward to returning to Art properly too and sharing with this amazing Community. I love the Artwork everybody has been posting . Just beautiful xxx 💫

I loved drawing this cardinal.

A old one that I forgot to post…

Every evening and early moring I hear the owl in the barns across the lane.

So I was inspirated to do this picture. I really enjoyed this painting

I had trouble with white materials but enjoyed the playing with

the colours and different art materials

Wintry enchanted forest

Finished it off at the weekend. I love the purples, feels magical. 💜

I think I would like to work on understanding where bits should be lighter/ darker based on foreground and background. I find that hard to conceptualise somehow.

From the archives again, some birds in the blossom because it’s spring soon, right?