Jeni on Drawing 22. Hybrid Contemporary Dance event
A while ago, Francesca Tranter, Assistant Lecturer / Dance Practitioner at the University of Malta School of Performing Arts and also the Artistic Director and Choreographer at Contact Dance...
Jeni on Drawing 18. Drawing with Help
For many years, it was traditional to study under a ‘master’ artist to learn techniques and basic knowledge. An apprentice would study for years, helping to mix paint and...
Jeni on Drawing 13 Drawing After
Creativity is best learned by inspiration. By copying drawings we admire, working in the style of someone else, we learn how it feels to move our hands and make...
Mercedes’ Marvellous Mondays… Hillier Garden Centre food review…
Facebook – Twitter – @MercedesPrunty The boiling sun has been beating down over Britain and one of the things that has taken a beating from the...
Mercedes’ Marvellous Mondays… Abbot’s Woodland Fun…
Mercedes Prunty, Facebook- Twitter- @MercedesPrunty May half term, it’s usually the half term when I find myself skint and without ideas on what to do...
Jazz Paintings
Every year I set my easel up at various events and try to capture the atmosphere, the sound, colour and movement around me. I have painted dancers and actors,...
Drawing to a Close
When is a picture finished? This is a common question from students, but it doesn’t have a simple answer. My flippant reply is ‘about ten minutes...
Drawing with Help
For many years, it was traditional to study under a ‘master’ artist to learn techniques and basic knowledge. An apprentice would study for years, helping to mix paint and...
Drawing on Your Own
There’s only one you, only one me. You can’t really copy me, and I can’t copy you – together we can move forward by inspiring and supporting each other,...
Mocktails. (Drivers’ Delights.) Non-alcoholic Cocktails
Unfortunately, if you go out for the evening, someone has to draw the short straw and drive, unless you hire a minibus or book taxis. I’m quite happy to...
Learning to Draw
If all children are born able to draw, sing and dance, to express themselves and their emotions, what happens to stunt all that? Why do we lose confidence in...
More About Drawing
One of the things that makes humans unique is our self awareness. We are all born with an urge to express ourselves by singing, dancing and showing our emotions....
10 Steps to Painting at a Jazz Festival
This year the Malta Jazz Festival celebrated its 25th edition. The standard of music was outstanding on each of the four nights and I was lucky enough...
Drawing Skills
There is nothing wrong with doodling in a cartoony way, or using symbolic figures to represent reality, but being able to draw things so that they look and feel...
Drawing Matters
“An amateur gives people what they want; a professional gives them what they need.” I can’t remember where I heard that quote, but it guides me when I think...
Beginning to Draw
Humans are born with an urge to make marks, to sing, dance and generally express themselves. If you ask any small child if they can draw or paint they...
Simply Drawing
I really believe that accurate drawing is a skill that can be learnt relatively easily, and also that it has many benefits beyond its superficial pleasure. With practice and...
Drawing Emotions Out
Humans respond to the world around them through their emotions. We feel these emotions in our bodies and they are physical things, not simply imagined scenarios that run through...
Drawing is…. Mindless!
I am very interested in the left and right brain theory about the opposing effects of logic and creativity. It helps to explain many of the problems...
Drawing as Meditation
I am really keen on the idea of ‘art’ being a tool for self expression and for connecting our inner and outer worlds in deep and personal ways....
33. Drawing on Your Own
There’s only one you, only one me. You can’t really copy me, and I can’t copy you – together we can move forward by inspiring and supporting each other,...
My Christmas List
Besides writing my own Christmas wish list I thought I’d help a little with yours! I paint my ‘Little People’ on the beach near me, Golden Bay. I...
Drawing and Painting Fifty Shades of Grey Nudes
Underpinning all the ‘action’ paintings and sketches that I love to do so much is a life-long fascination with people. I always carry a sketch book with me, and...
Commenting on Comments
The feedback and comments from my last article have been really interesting and helpful. Most of all it’s been good to know that people are actually reading my...
29. Drawing Conclusions….. I wonder, can you help me?
People quite often tell me how much they enjoy my posts, so I know that they are being read, even though I rarely get any online comments. I wonder...