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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

Bridging the gap

I got a request from my friend Leslie of spectacular quilt fame: “Josh’s dear friend Emily is marrying Jeff on Jan 25th. I’m wondering if you could paint a watercolor for them with the intersecting hearts, their names and even

Lori Bentley March 28, 2014March 28, 2014 greeting cards, illustrating, inspiring people, painting, Uncategorized Read more

Portraits – my pre-Christmas challenge

A lot of my work is figurative, especially the illustration, but it has been a long time since I have been challenged to create portraits. I count the onsite sketches I have done over the years as useful exercises in

Lori Bentley January 30, 2014 illustrating, painting, Uncategorized Read more

Advent Challenge 24 – go eat your turkey!

It’s over! This is the final post – I’m about as done as the Christmas turkey and probably gobbling just as much. This illustration by Benji Davies just about sums it up! Thank you to everyone who has read my

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Advent Challenge 16 – Gerard Hendriks

If you like loose and beautiful watercolours then Gerard Hendriks is your man. His style is wonderful –  it is almost as if the paint has been flung at the canvas in sheer joy and formed itself! What I particularly

Lori Bentley December 16, 2013December 11, 2013 advent challenge, inspiring people, painting, Uncategorized Read more

Holidaying with brushes

Going on holiday with a sister who has just started a charity painting initiative, could be viewed as a busman’s holiday. As it turns out, it was more of a brushwoman’s holiday… The beauty of Vandy’s approach to these little

Lori Bentley August 28, 2013 fun, inspiring people, painting, Uncategorized Read more

Go figure!

  Arriving on that first day at art college, we all thought we were the bees knees. We’d sat our entrance exams and been accepted, which pretty much made us believe that we were the cream of the arty fart

Lori Bentley March 4, 2013March 5, 2013 Drawing, inspiring people, Uncategorized Read more

No Lion – this was tough

“We have a strong appeal to a market which appreciates getting back down to earth and experiencing the bush as the bush, with all its sights, sounds and smells, rather than experiencing it as a distanced tourist with the strongest

Lori Bentley February 14, 2013February 14, 2013 design, Uncategorized Read more

Bad Yeti….

If you got a puppy for Christmas and are now regretting the midnight pee runs, imagine if you had suffered a mad moment and purchased a yeti? Massive hairballs under the sofa and lots of broken furniture await you in

Lori Bentley January 7, 2013 doodles, fun, Uncategorized Read more

Will they be getting coal this year?

This cartoon was created for my optometrist clients quite a few years ago…. The idea was that Santa needed to keep his eyes in good health or else he might not be able to distinguish the Naughty list from the

Lori Bentley December 19, 2012January 8, 2013 fun, illustrating, Uncategorized Read more
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