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Art Project: Found Poetry & Visual Poems
These instructions for a painting projects are free to use for personal enjoyment and in art groups with credit. (Note: some video links may not work as I’m moving where my videos are stored, and I am also updating the Patreon links; please drop me a note if you find a broken link.)
If you’re looking for the Monthly Drawing Word Prompt Charts, you’ll find them here.
Painting Project: Complementary Colour Paint Tubes
Painting Project: Negative-Space Flower Vase
- Project Instructions
- Monday Motivator: Paint the Shape of the Air
- Project video
Painting Project: Form Lines Not Outlines
- Project Instructions
- For Project subscribers:
Taking the Scrumpled Paper Project Further
Painting Project: Sea Texture in Gesso
- Project Instructions
- Sketching the Sea: Looking at Waves Only
- For Project Subscribers on my Patreon site:
— Video Demo: Sea Texture Using Gesso
Painting Project: Portrait of a Dog
- Project instructions
- For Project Subscribers on my Patreon:
— My Attempt at the Dog Portrait Painting Project
— Painting Project Video Demo: Sheepdog Three Ways
Painting Project: Neptune’s Gold (Abstractions from Nature)
Painting Project: Furrow Patterns
- Project instructions
- Ploughed Field Painting by Vincent van Gogh (aka ‘interesting browns’)
- My Three Attempts at the Furrow Patterns Project
Painting Project: The Same But Different
- Project Instructions
- For Project Subscribers on my Patreon:
— The Same But Different Project: My Apple Paintings (Work-in-Progress)
Getting Resolution Before the New Year: End-of-year Instructions
Painting Project: The Tall Sunflower
- Project Instructions: The Tall Sunflower
- Van Gogh’s Other Sunflowers
- Egon Schiele’s Sunflower
- My Sunflower Paintings: Part 1 and Part 2
- For Project Subscribers on my Patreon:
— Autumnal Reds with the Sunflower
— Thumbnailing for My Sunflower Painting
— My Started But Stalled Sunflower Painting
Painting Project: Circles of My Mind
- Project Instructions: Circles of My Mind
- Project Photo Gallery: Circles of My Mind
- For Project Subscribers:
— Behind-the-Scenes: Planning September’s Painting Project
Painting Project: Arboreal Abtracts
- Project Instructions
- Project Photo Gallery: Arboreal Abstracts
- Opaque vs Transparent Colours
- Videp Painting Demo: My Arboreal Abstract
Painting Project: Rain Shower at Thorntonloch Beach
- Project Instructions Rain Shower at Thorntonloch Beach
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Considering Compositions for Thorntonloch Beach Painting Project
— Part 1: Starting My Rain Shower at Thorntonloch Beach Painting
— Part 2: My Rain Shower at Thorntonloch Beach Painting
Painting Project: Palette of a Place
Painting Project: Stormy Camus Mor Bay
- Project Instructions: Stormy Camus Mor Bay
- Project Photo Gallery
- Step-by-step demo: My Stormy Camus Mor painting using acrylics and oil pastels
- For Project Subscribers:
— Looking at Wave Direction for Seascapes
— Compositional Choices
— Behind-the-Scenes: My Stormy Camus Mor Painting
Painting Project: Seaweed
- Project instructions: Seaweed
- Video Painting Demo: Shorelines Seaweed
- For Project Subscribers:
—Where I Started with the Seaweed Painting Project
—Continuing My Seaweed Saga
Painting Project: Pebble Portraits
- Project instructions: Pebble Portraits
- Pebbles Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Sneak peek
— My First Pebble Portrait Grid
— My Pebbles on a Wood Panel Part One, Part Two, Part Three
— An Artist Even More Obsessed with Pebbles
Painting Project: Shoreline (In the Style of Van Gogh)
- Project Instructions: Shoreline in the Style of Van Gogh
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Short Video of the Location
— Video Demo: Two Shoreline Drawings
— Creating Painterly Brushmarks Like Van Gogh
Painting Project: Eggshells (Looking Beyond the Obvious)
- Project Instructions: Eggshells
- Photo Gallery of Paintings
- For Project Subscribers:
— A Cracking Project
— Eggshells in Graphite & Coloured Pencil
— A Different Angle on Eggshells
Painting Project: A Dark Foreground
- Project Instructions: A Dark Foreground
- Project Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Step-by-Step Demo: My Dark Foreground Painting
— Video: Me Looking Over My 2020 Project Paintings
Painting Project: Orange Buoy
- Project Instructions: Orange Buoy
- Project Gallery
- For project subscribers on Patreon
— Sneakpeek: November’s Painting Project
— Video Demo: My Orange Buoy Painting
— The Hidden Aspects of My Painting a Creel Net
Painting Project: The Little Mouse
- Project Instructions: The Little Mouse
- Project Photo Gallery: The Little Mouse
- For project subscribers on Patreon
— Behind the Scenes: My Mouse Paintings
— Inspiration: The Mouse Illustrations of Monique Felix
— Millais’ Mouse
Painting Project: Breaking Wave
Project Instructions: Breaking Wave- Photo Gallery: Big Wave Project Paintings
- For project subscribers on Patreon:
— More photos from Storm’s River
— Behind the Scenes: The Social Media Photo vs Reality of My Watercolour Wave
Painting Project: Duntulm Shore
- Project Instructions: Duntulm shore
- Photo Gallery: Project Paintings
- Taking a Long, Slow Look at a Reference Photo
- Interesting Greys
- Video: Rocky Seascape with Texture Paste
- For project subscribers:
— Step-by-step painting demo: Duntulm shore in mixed media
— Video demo: Duntulm shore in oils
— Interesting Greys into Mountainscape
Painting Project: Daisies
- Project Instructions: Daisies
- Painting Daisies in a Concertina Sketchbook (with video)
- Photo Gallery: Project Paintings
- For project subscribers:
— Video Foxgloves and Daisies in Mixed Media
Painting Project: Bluebells
- Project Instructions: Bluebells
- My Video Demo: Painting Bluebells
- For project subscribers:
— Painting Bluebells for June
— Tree Drawings Combining Control and Spontaneity - Project Photo Gallery
Painting Project: Blocks of Abstraction
- Project Instructions: Blocks of Abstraction
- Blocks of Abstraction: Two Cut-Ups
- For Project Subscribers:
— Blocks of Abstraction: From a Bunch of Roses
— Award-Winning Grid Drawing - Project Photo Gallery
Painting Project: Found Poetry and Visual Poems
- Project Instructions: Found Poetry & Visual Poems
- Video Demo: How to Create a Found or Blackout Poem
- Video Demo: Start Afresh Found Poem
- Video Demo: Draw Fearlessley Found Poem
- Video Demo: Draw Found Poem
- Project Photo Gallery
Painting Project: The Red Boat
- Project Instructions: The Red Boat
- Photo Gallery: Red Boat Project
- Video Demo: My First Attempt at the Red Boat
- For Project Subscribers:
— My Second Attempt at the Red Boat
— Failing at Thumbnails (and leaving out most of the boat)
Painting Project: Woodland Pond
- Project Instructions: Woodland Pond
- Photo Gallery: Woodland Pond Painting Project
- For Project Subscribers:
— ‘Thumbnailing’ with a Camera
— Video: My Thoughts on My Woodland Pond Painting
— Video: Woodland Trees, the Saga Continues
Painting Project: Iona Shore
- Project Instructions: Iona Shore with Palette Knife
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Playing with Knives
— Video: My Thoughts on Composition
— Video: Timelapse of my project painting - On-Demand Video: Real-Time Demo, Palette Knife Iona Shore
Painting Project: Talisker Bay
- Project Instructions: Talisker Bay
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Project Thumbnails
— Step-by-Step Demo: Talisker Bay
Painting Project: Ram
- Project Instructions: Ram
- How I Do It : Splattering Paint
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project Subscribers:
— Project Thumbnails
— Video: Ram Painting Demo
— Video Demo: Sheep Painting with a Rigger Brush
— My Thoughts on Eddie’s February Project Paintings
Painting Project: Passing Place
- Project Instructions: Passing Place
- Project Photo Gallery
- Video: “Passing Places” Demo: 20 Minutes in Two
- For Project Subscribers:
— Step-by-Step Photos: Passing Place Sheep
— My Thumbnails for the March 2019 Painting Project: Passing Places
Painting Project: Paint Tube
- Project Instructions: Paint Tube
- Photo Gallery: Project Paintings
- For Project Subscribers
— My Thumbnails
— Photos: Step-by-Step of My Paint-Tube Project Painting
Painting Project: Tree with Gorse
- Project Instructions: Tree with Gorse
- Photo Gallery: Project Paintings
- For Project Subscribers
— My Thumbnails
— Video Demo of Tree Painting in Ink
— Suggesting a Gorse-Covered Hill
Painting Project: Seaweed Rock Shore
- Project Instructions: Seaweed Rock Shore
- Photo Gallery Project Paintings
- My Paintings of June’s Project Photo
- For Project Subscribers:
— Step-by-Step Video Demo
— Another Attempt at June’s Project
Painting Project: Beach Huts at Findhorn Beach
- Project Instructions: Beach Huts at Findhorn Beach
- Project Photo Gallery
- Trying (and failing) to Rescue My Project Painting
- For Project Subscribers:
— Video Demo of Painting Pebbles in Ink
— Video Step-by-Step of My First Attempt at a Beach Hut Painting
Painting Project: Tall Trees
- Project Instructions: Tall Trees
- Video: Four of My Paintings of Tall Trees, working wet-into-wet with watercolour and acrylic (speeded up 8x)
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project subscribers:
— Video in Real Time of One of My Tall Tree Paintings
— Thinking About Tree Trunk Colours
— New Rules for August’s Project?
— Behind the Scenes: Trio of Trees Drying
Painting Project: Portree Harbour
- Project Instructions: Portree Harbour
- Video of the location
- Project Submission: Portree Harbour in Continuous Line
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project subscribers:
— My Thumbnails for Portree Harbour Painting Project (with video)
— Closer Photos of the Church
— Step-by-Step Demo: Portree Harbour Chimneys
Painting Project: Camus Mor Rocks
- Project Instructions: Camus Mor Rocks
- Project Photo Gallery
- Video of the location
- Timelapse Video of My Project Painting
- My Thoughts on My Watercolour Rocks
- For Project subscribers:
— My Thumbnails
— Camus Mor Rocks with Fluid, Granulating Watercolour
Painting Project: Derelict Croft House
- Project Instructions: Derelict Croft House
- Project Photo Gallery
- For Project subscribers:
— Video: Timelapse video of my painting for this project
— If You Don’t Do Thumbnails
Painting Project: Highland Cow
- Project Instructions: Highland Cow
- Two Highland Cow Paintings from the McManus in Dundee
- For Project Subscribers:
— Questions About Cows