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Hello, I’m Janette. I draw, paint, and occasionally write and illustrate poems - mostly haiku. I work in: watercolour, ink pen, pencil, acrylic..and at times, with my fingertip on an iPad. From some of my art I create high quality, inkjet art prints; producing them in my home-studio, in beautiful Gippsland, Australia. Thankful† There’s information...

Making More Sketchbooks – and Filling Them Up…

There’s so much about bookbinding I find fascinating: the various stitching methods, the tools….making covers… Given time I hope to delve into it more. For now I’ve chosen to use relatively simple and quick bookbinding techniques for my sketchbooks - namely: “Perfect” binding, “Saddle stitch”, and more recently “Accordion” styles.  In the above picture, the...

*Gouache and watercolour on a tiny canvas: approx. 10.2 cm x 15.2cm (4” x 6”). To protect the painting I rubbed on some Dorlands Wax. It applies without smudging the paint, and gives a pleasant, low sheen finish. Watercolour, pencil, inkpen…have for many years been my mainstay. Delightful to use, and so handy for quick...

This artwork above is in a mix of media - 5” x 7”. I began it using ink-pen and water-soluble graphite, in one of the sketchbooks I make myself. I took a snap of the sketches. Then with my fingertip I used art media in Procreate to remove the middle seam of the page, and...

Some Sketches: Inkpen, Watercolour, Gouache, Art App Media…

Drawn with a dark sepia inkpen, and then added watercolour washes. Mostly my art is inspired by scenes from home - my favourite place to be. I’m not often directly looking at the subject matter. However: bowls, teapots, fruit, a vase of flowers, pot-plants, the garden, gumtrees, paddocks, bushland, birds…are daily in view - providing...

I began this painting with a brown watersoluble “Neocolor” crayon, applied with a flourish (and without much of a plan) onto A4 cotton watercolour paper. Then added watercolour and gouache. I used a tiny bit of coloured pencil here and there. The paper texture was a little rougher than I usually like to use for...

I drew this with a black inkpen and watersoluble graphite crayon on paper. With my iPad I took a snap of it, then sent it to my inkjet printer. I printed it (with the printer also set to black and white) onto “rough” A5 cotton watercolour paper.   It was fun working/playing over it with watercolour...

Firstly a quick flourish of my inkpen, then washes of watercolour and a touch of white gouache in the centre of the flower. A page from one of my homemade sketchbooks. A page is A6 (approx. 4” x 6”, 10cm x 15cm) in size.

Siftings of Art – and Snaps of my Studio

This is painted with a mix of media. I began with a 9B Lyra water-soluble graphite stick on a 8” x 10” canvas board; and finished with layers of gouache, watercolour, Inktense ink washes, and acrylic matte and gloss medium. I wasn’t sure where I was going with this - there’s photos of the beginnings below. Though...