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Urban Sketching – Part 1

Urban Sketching – Part 1

Last year I was lucky to go on a month long trip to Europe, I decided to use an A5 Moleskine watercolour album to document my trip. It started in the UK with an intensely arty weekend. First was the

Lori Bentley July 24, 2017July 24, 2017 Drawing, fun, painting, Uncategorized Read more

Advent Challenge 21 – in good taste

The Victorian Garden is a creative idea worth sharing. Lindsay Salthouse started the company, using recipes for skin care products found in a collection of diaries written by her great-grandmother. She started out small, and has since gone from strength

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Advent Challenge 18 – Angela Smythe

It was one of those viral things, someone likes a page on facebook, and being nosy you go over to have a look and discover someone who tickles your funny bone. That’s how I found Angela Smythe who is based

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Advent challenge 13 – Christmas stockings

No artist featured today, but instead a creative idea with creative results. Getting socks for Christmas always seems like a bit of a cliche. Especially when the socks are for that man who is impossible to buy for. My father

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Advent Challenge 12 – Catherine Rayner

Today’s artist is Catherine Rayner. I admire her wonderful painterly style and how her animal characters are such individuals. Her bio from her website: Award winning author and illustrator Catherine Rayner studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of art. She fell

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Advent challenge 11 – Marguerite Brennan

For seven years, I played with clay at the New Jersey Centre for Visual Arts under the gentle guidance of Marguerite Brennan. Marguerite is a an incredibly creative ceramic artist. She specializes in hand building techniques so there is always

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Advent Challenge 10 – James Mayhew

James Mayhew is author and illustrator. He is famous for the Katie books and the Ella Bella books, both series introducing young readers to fine art, ballet, and museums. His list on amazon runs to three pages of interesting reads

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Advent Challenge 8 – Icecream Sunday

When I was at art college, I was friends with a fellow inmate (yes it was a mad house) whose father owned The Little Red Schoolhouse ice cream factory. This may have been insignificant, except that the factory was a

Lori Bentley December 8, 2013December 6, 2013 advent challenge, fun Read more

Engraved on my heart

Timing is always important when it comes to wedding invitations. Although this client is getting married later on in the year, she had an opportunity to post her overseas invitations during a trip to see family and needed the design

Lori Bentley October 16, 2013 design, fun, lazer engraving Read more

Designing with heart

  I was approached in the car park of HeronBridge College with a request: “We want you to redesign our prospectus, Nando’s Style”. My first reaction to this was: “huh?” Nando’s is well-known for its off-the-wall advertising, but how do you relate a

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