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Revisiting Inktober 2022 – Rocktober!
30 days of tiny rock drawings, some sketches done from the Whitby coast, and ‘portraits’ of multiple sides of my favourite rocks.
https://tina-m.com/2023/01/09/revisiting-inktober-2022-rocktober/
Why rocks make the best still life drawings
NEW VIDEO! I think rocks make the perfect still life subjects for drawing. Working with shape, tone, light, contrast, pattern, and style from scientific to realism to abstract. This is why I'll ...
https://tina-m.com/2022/09/29/why-rocks-make-the-best-still-life-drawings/
Inky ammonites – a drawing demo
How to abstract fossils in a drawing? Here’s how I take ink and pencil and focus on the mass and form of the shape, then create details using carbon and 2B pencils. See what choices I make fo...
On Edge
Boundaries and edges have long intrigued me and influenced my artwork. Boundaries along rivers and shores. Boundary of the horizon between water and sky. Boundaries where rock meets the sea and c...
Reading the Rocks
A reading list! The past few weeks I’ve had oodles of lovely visitors at my open studios. It was so great to see people again! And one of the questions that came up was recommendations for good...
Story of a Painting – September
“SEPTEMBER” IS A INTENTIONALLY MISNAMED PAINTING capturing the memory of two important things in my life. As a landscape, it is a towering deep blue black rock stack of Whitby mudstone - Blac...
https://tina-m.com/2022/05/25/story-of-a-painting-september/
Above the sea to below
Using magazine images as drawing prompts again. This time fabric (and a bit of stone!) images transformed into sea waves in the sketchbook. From seas on top of the water I moved on to drawings of...
Pouch Cove 2002: the first ever blog!
My first ever artist residency was in Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada and even back them my laptop was attached to my hip. Despite technological limitations I managed to contact the local phone ...
https://tina-m.com/2022/04/27/pouch-cove-2002-the-first-ever-blog/
A return to waves
Just some nice South Bay waves, a walk home from the studio. The later spring light means I’m not walking home in the dark and can actually see the sea.
Which way up? A drawing demo
Here’s an actual geology exercise with drawing and sightseeing! Drawing this by hand helps me see the layering in the Whitby Abbey sandstones and practice the patterns in the rocks.