Vivien Art & Design & Tutorials
A collection of my art, design & tutorials. Delighted you've dropped by!
Hello, lovelies. My computer broke down on the 23 December, and I’ve only just got it back! Not a lot to say at the moment, though, I’m gradually drifting into some of my projects. As usual, I’ve entered the Shift Art free digital art challenge. I’m a bit rusty so the outline of the girlContinue reading “Belated Happy New Year”
I spent the weekend working on a new piece for the free Shiftart Challenge. You need to incorporate 3 images and a texture together (you have a choice of images to choose from). The subject this month is to design an album cover. Here’s my final entry, together with a variation. In the second one,Continue reading “This month’s Digital Art Challenge, an imagined album cover”
With all the offers going on over the weekend I haven’t had much time to write or create. I’ve even bought a couple of things in the black Friday sales…. The first is a compliancy tool for my other blog which is the same as this blog only for the creative biz education side ofContinue reading “Creating a printable journal, other creative musings and a recipe!”
My brand new eBook Haven’t been posting here much lately as I’ve been writing an eBook….woohoo! Talk about tiring, but satisfying. I’m not a writer so it was quite difficult for me. But, I have teaching and creative digital strategy knowledge, so wrote about what I think is useful for creative folks who would likeContinue reading “Creative summer round-up, some new art and a free branding kit for you”
Have you ever seen the film ‘Out of Africa’ with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford? Well, I’ve been working on a piece this week and for some reason it reminded me of this wonderful film! After this ‘dreamy’ version, I also went a bit wild and made another one in a more modern style. AnyContinue reading “My Creative week”
Hello everyone, hope you’re all doing well. I’ve spent some time the last week working on some digital designs. I just loved these exotic flower images from design cuts, so couldn’t resist using them in this collage. Here’s wishing you a lovely weekend (and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it). As you probably know,Continue reading “My Creative Week and Digital Art Design Collage for the weekend”
A trip down memory lane for this post! I’ve gone back in time to 2019 with these images. All were created for a monthly photo art challenge I do with shiftart.com. They provide you with a choice of images from pixabay.com and ask you to choose three and compose an image on a monthly theme.Continue reading “An Art challenge from 2019”
Hello Blogger friends. I’ve just started a self-hosted site on wordpress (using the same url) as I wanted to expand on my articles and digital tutorials and wondered if anyone knows what happens to my blog here. Will I keep the same blog url with .wordpress.com added, or will I perhaps have to change theContinue reading “Query about self-hosted wordpress site and some digital textures for you”
Over the weekend I worked on a bit of art and also started creating a certificate of authenticity for my artwork. When you print and sell an artwork it’s always good to include a Certificate of Authenticity and a thank you note when you send it to the buyer. Make sure it’s in your brandContinue reading “My creative weekend and creating a certificate of authenticity for artwork”
Apart from my more ambitious art projects and online courses for artists and crafters (link here) I have also re-opened my little shop on Etsy. It’s easy to set up and you can upload a variety of products. I create digital downloads of my art prints and once the customer buys they download the filesContinue reading “My creative week and brand new printable animal art – my favourite is the owl!”
Someone complimented me on a digital art collage that I created a few weeks ago, so thought I’d do a tutorial! This is the one I did below (I also added a model image from Colby Files): The best way to start is by gathering together your digital floral elements that you think would lookContinue reading “My creative week begins… and a free digital art floral collage tutorial”
Well, I’m giving up on my January challenge of creating 3 images a day and uploading the best of the bunch. So I suppose I’m a bit of a failure..haha. Today I uploaded the last to my art group page. Here’s just a few of the ones I finished for the challenge.
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