An effective Brain Dump – structured thoughts – funnel effect, math problem, showing how you got to your solution. Develop original ideas that are uniquely you – Beautiful accidents, juxtapose, left brain vs right brain – skills and ideas developed over time, proving you are the artist behind the work Allows others to guide, collaborate […]
A tool, a process to develop and create your Artist Voice and Style Idea Creation Who are you? What is truly you? Your Voice, your development as an artist. Your artists mind Sometimes called a Visual Journal, Visual Portfolio As artist we have various ways of storing and presenting art Sketchbook Archive Portfolio Visual Diary […]
Hi, I’m Lillian Gray, South African fine artist, and today we are going to be covering the basics of working with air-dry clay. In this video we will be covering: How to wedge your air-dry clay How to roll a proper slab How to join different section What is slip? How to finish off a […]
Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and for today’s lesson, we are finishing off beautiful Gregory the giraffe that we created in a previous video. For today’s lesson, you will need: Fine sandpaper Various colours of acrylic paint Different size brushes Paper towel and a water jar Clear spray paint Step 1: We need to lightly […]
Intro Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and in today’s lesson, I am going to teach you various tips and tricks, and some advanced skills on how to use charcoal. At the end of the lesson, I will be showing you how to do a beautiful charcoal landscape, inspired by the famous South African artist William Kentridge. Charcoal as […]
Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and I’m super excited about today’s lesson.I’m going to teach you some awesome tips and tricks on how to use oil pastels. We’ll be making a landscape honouring the Impressionists. There’s a free oil pastel printout on our blog for you to practice the various tips and tricks in this lesson. […]
Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and I’m really excited about today’s art lesson. We are going to go and look for inspiration from the queen of polka dots, Yayoi Kusama. We will be creating a mixed media, flower-collage. For today’s lesson you will need the following: Paper in various colours A3 black card Acrylic paint […]
Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and today’s lesson is inspired by a famous South African artist called William Kentridge. William Kentridge’s style William Kentridge is well known for his charcoal drawings but he also works in Indian ink. Today I am going to mimic the Indian ink look by using black acrylic paint as well as some […]
Hi everybody, I’m artist Lillian Gray and today we are adding colour to cute little Amy, the armadillo that we created in a previous video. Enjoy! For today’s lesson, you will be needing the following: sandpaper acrylic paint various size brushes water and paper towel clear spraypaint Step 1: Sand down your sculpture This creates a […]
Hi, I’m artist Lillian Gray and today we’re finishing our beautiful red panda, Rory. For today’s lesson, you will need: black spray paint acrylic paints various size brushes water and paper towel clear spray paint Step 1: Applying base colour Step one is going to be giving your sculpture a base colour. We are going […]