Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is a continuation from last Tuesday. Last week i showed you burnishing with a white pencil crayon on top of another colour. This week, I am taking a coloured pencil crayon and burnishing on top of another colour.  The key to this is to pick your burnishing colour (...

For today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques I will be sharing more about pencil crayon techniques. This technique has a name and it is called burnishing. Burnishing is a technique that most people don't know and don't know how to do it. It is a very simple technique that smooths the look of the colour be...

Happy Tuesday! I hope this finds you well. Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is continuing with pencil crayon techniques. The technique is blending two similar colours together (i.e. blue into a blue). You would use this technique to show values in a piece of work (i.e. blue into another blue could...

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Last few Art & Soul Insider’s, I shared about colour. This newsletter, I will share about the elements of form and value. 

Some people consider value to be an element of its own from colour. While others believe that value is under the element umbrella of colour. I am of the belief of the late...

Welcome to #WednesdayWins ! Today I am thankful for self care and the tools I use to take care of myself. There is drinking water, exercise, journaling, talking to a therapist and so many others. But today I want to focus of the self care awareness I can get from Akal Pritam's Self-Love Oracle. If y...

Today is #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques . There are some amazing artworks that are created with pencil crayons. Today's technique is about blending two colours together... it could be a colour blended with a darker similar colour, or it could be two different colours blended together. whatever the colou...

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This is the final sharing of the element of colour. I have covered a great deal concerning colour as I most often get questions concerning colour. The final revealing is concerning three words: Complementary (which we have covered), Analogous and Triadic. Most often these colour theory words ar...

The last few Tuesday's I shared about hard and rough textures in watercolours. This #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques is all about creating soft texture with watercolours. You would use this technique in creating fluffy, soft clouds that hang in our skies.

Hey! I'd love your input. So many women struggle with stress, worry about their lives, feel tired and feel like they have no time for themselves. I help women solve this struggle and move to a place where they jump out of bed with optimism and have a sense of pride towards themselves and what they d...

Today's #TuesdayToolsAndTechniques , is about texture, rough texture. This it the type of texture that is on the side of a old wooden barn door or siding. It isn't a smooth hard texture or a soft texture, it is bumpy, sharp, rough texture. You know the kind. The key is to dry your brush off, but it'...

Today's #WednesdayWins is about makeup! One thing I don't like is putting on makeup and then later it is all gone! How can we make this a win?  Besides a permanent way by tattooing it on, there is a lipstick that can last a long time. What's nice is that it is not just the brand I am showing you (Pa...

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This edition of Art & Soul Insider newsletter will focus on the continuation of the element of colour.

The colour wheel can be divided into two. It can be categorized as warm and cool colours. Warm colours are considered reds, oranges and yellows. While cool colours are seen as blues, greens a...