Several people have asked me why my blog is named Blue Biro Gallery, yet has no drawings done with a blue biro.
So I sketched this second eye in my lunch break today using a rather gummy one.
Blue biro eye
Archive for March, 2011
Eye – drawn with Blue Biro
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags blue biro, blue biro sketch, sketch of eye on March 29, 2011 by JennyEye
Posted in Painting Diary with tags eye, how to draw, online tutorial on March 28, 2011 by JennyA few weeks ago I tried following an online tutorial for how to do a new style of eye make-up. Now I’ve followed another tutorial, rather a good one, for how to draw the eye itself. I used a brown Conté crayon. You can learn quite a bit online !
Eye
Conté Crayon Leg
Posted in Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags Conte Crayons, Sketch on March 26, 2011 by JennyThis was my first time using Conté crayons this morning. They were invented in 1795 in France, and mostly come in sanguine, black and white. They’re natural pigments mixed with clay and graphite. I didn’t quite have the right paper, but it’s a start.
Sanguine and black conte sketch
Profiteroles
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags chocolate, chocolate sauce, choux pastry, diet, Flora Grant, Freddie Grant, Jennifer Caron Hall, Profiteroles, red hair, vanilla ice-cream on March 10, 2011 by JennyThere is something utterly absorbing about a plate of beautifully made profiteroles. Especially when you’re on a diet as I am this week… I painted over a recent photo of Freddie and Flora Grant, who both have amazing copper-coloured hair, enjoying a sumptuous plate of choux pastry with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice-cream. I like the way that you cannot quite tell which bits are painted and which bits are photograph. Mystery.
Profiteroles
Self Portrait – Big Earrings
Posted in Painting Diary on March 7, 2011 by JennyThe sun came out – time to do another self portrait! Why the two are related, I do not know, but they seem to be.
Here I’ve painted over an old photograph again and I’m wearing a pair of large pearly earrings that I bought in Paris and loved so much in the 1980s that I wore them until most of the ‘pearls’ fell off- then I sewed the remains onto my black leather jacket.
Self Portrait with Earrings
Lemon in shades of Blue
Posted in Painting Diary with tags cat, Digital Art, Digital sketch, Drawing of Cat, Jennifer Caron Hall, Lemon in Purple, Purple Cat on March 4, 2011 by JennyThe last picture was all a little brown…so here’s a purple version.
A less brown Lemon
Four Lemons : Wallpaper Mark 4
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags cat, Damien Hirst, Jennifer Caron Hall, Jenny Caron Hall, kitty, Lemon the Cat, Wallpaper on March 1, 2011 by JennyWell here’s another sketch of my cat Lemon. I’ve quadrupled it manually (rather than using tiling tools) to make Four Lemons. This is the latest version of ‘wallpaper for the house’ made from sketches of Lemon. I posted the previous 3 version on Twitter rather than here on my blog because it was just for fun, and Twitter is faster and easier. I was inspired by the Damien Hirst butterfly wallpaper.
Lemon the Cat Times Four
