I have a little notebook that lives in my car (well it lives in my car when I am not in lock down!) and when I have to pick the terrible trio up from school or dance or wait for covid tests and doctors appointments, I’ll sketch little drawings. Part of this is boredom – […]
THE BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK! Halloween is just around the corner so it must be time to create some new additions for my Boo Beastie collections. I just adore how these turned out and how much people love them. Boo Beasties are the cutest damned Halloween decorations out there! This years collection included a few
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P R E O R D E R S N O W O P E N Pre orders are now open for the 2022 LilliBean Designs Art Calendar! Each month features a print of an original art work by LilliBean Designs all of which are brand new and have never been in a previous calendar.
Today I am share the third of 5 paintings created on wooden disks. Last year I bought five large round wooden disks from our local hardware shop. At the time I didn’t really have a plan, but I was also slightly enamoured with wreaths, and starting to follow the moon phases. Earlier this year I
This painting seemed to take months. Actually it did take months! Each time I worked on it, I would take infinitesimally small steps forward, and end the session feeling frustrated and lost. But I think the end result was worth it. This is the second of my wooden disk paintings – the first being the CRYSTAL
After a mammoth three year procrastination I bit the bullet and sat down for a couple of days to design and create my Patreon site. I have wanted to create a simple subscription based service for ages and I felt that Patreon was able to help me with that. There are four membership levels
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It’s was perfectly cold and miserable mid winters day when I wrote this, but I love this time of year. Against the back drop of heavy grey skies everything seems much more vibrant and alive with colour. I find myself constantly stopping on my walks trying to capture the vibrancy and darkness with my phone’s camera,
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JULY 2021 UPDATE. 2021 saw the addition of an art journalling practice to my weekly rituals. I have written about it in depth here . Today I want to share some more of the journal pages I have been creating lately. Some of which have inspired new larger paintings. I am so happy I had added
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Adding a art journalling practice to my day has really helped with my creative ebbs and flows, and I find that often paintings I have made in my art journal are begging to be recreated into larger paintings. Mademoiselle was one of these paintings. Starting as a quick paint and then graduating to the a
