Plastic dinosaur
pencil
A kitchen knife
Don’t worry, I’m not having violent thoughts. I just thought it’d be cool to sketch. 🙂
A dark mess
This was a toned-ground exercise from my acrylics starter kit. It was a bit of a disaster—mainly because I ran out of white and mixed most of the colours way too dark, but also because I got discouraged, started experimenting, and made a bit of mess of it. Again, I learnt a lot, though, and I did enjoy creating the toned-ground effect.
I also did a reasonable quick sketch from the photo before I attempted the painting:
Pencil case with a little bit of colour
This was my attempt to capture the rainbow effect in my daughter’s glittery pencil case. I used her coloured pencils too. 🙂
Initial sketches
From what I’ve read recently, drawing is foundational to good painting, so I’ve been focusing on that to begin with. Here are some of my better sketches from the last few weeks.
Feijoa 
Copy of van Gogh’s ‘Old Nag’ 
Succulent 
Glitter bottle 
Elephant piggy bank 
Shoe line-drawing exercise 
Leaves from a Waitakere bush walk
