Watercolour Leaves Part 1 #watercolor #watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-16 | Watercolour with Crackle paste on Artboard.No gesso was laid down on the artboard first, just the crackle which I left to dry overnight before adding watercolour paint to it.This is my first test piece for the Autumn Leaves Project, part 2 is already recorded and will follow soon.
Playtime with Paullas Stencils Fran OnTheEdge 2025-09-22 | A varied selection of Paulla's fabulous stencil designs.🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 streamyard.com/pal/d/4742345543647232
Footsie Play Fran OnTheEdge 2025-08-04 | Demonstration of the newest fabulous stencils from Fran Baker: Footsie Play!I love these designs.
Oil and Water(colour) Fran OnTheEdge 2024-08-05 | Painting rocks with oil paint and watercolour - an experiment. From a technique I saw on YouTube, and trying a few alternatives at the same time. Original Video: youtu.be/pDtldKDO42o?si=klDoYx-UwDYp3fix
Standing: Finishing off Indigo Honesty Fran OnTheEdge 2024-04-19 | Painting standing up at the easel - one thing recommended to help you loosen up.Working on the Indigo Honesty piece.Watercolour.
Watercolour Relax 2 Fran OnTheEdge 2024-04-15 | Working on the next loose watercolour attempt - this one has a better composition I think, but still not very loose.
Watercolour Relax Part 1 Fran OnTheEdge 2024-04-12 | Attempt at Loose Watercolour, it's hard to do loose, and I'm not sure if what I mean by "loose" is what other artists mean by that term. This attempt is rather nice but I'm not so sure if it's loose enough.
Honesty In Loose Watercolour 2nd Version Fran OnTheEdge 2024-04-05 | I am here trying another attempt at a loose watercolour, and again trying Honesty as the subject - mainly cos I like them so much! LolHere is just the Drawing in outline form for the subsequent Watercolour.I have an idea for the colour of the Honesty seed capsules, but have not yet decided on the background colour/s.
Watercolour Magic: Testing watercolour, inks and mediums. Fran OnTheEdge 2024-04-01 | Testing bleach in inks and in watercolours, and testing different mediums in watercolours. Including Gum Arabic used as an addition, rather than as a basic ingredient.
Fran And Violet Play Day: Abstract Watercolour. Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-29 | Playing and printing watercolour in abstracts, on a spring day.
Sketching Exaggerated Perspective in Buildings Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-25 | Here I'm attempting to Exaggerate Perspective when sketching a Building. #sketch #watercolor #mixedmedia I'm not very good at it yet. I find it hard to Exaggerate it ENOUGH.But I'm going to keep trying.This one is my Summerhouse - aka She-Shed, which has now become a place to stuff things out of the way. lol.I used Inktense pencils and ColourSoft pencils in this sketch. I'm happy with how it went, but I think in future it would be better to stick to just Inktense pencils, so that they all move equally when you want to add water.
Watercolour Sketchbook Work 1 #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-22 | Working in my handbag sized Sketchbook. I want pencil drawings in here and sketches with watercolour added to pencil sketches, perhaps with added inked details afterwards. and brief quick sketches showing details or just outlines of various things.This session shows the results of recent outings, with photos and sketches taken locally.It'll be interesting to see how it progresses.
Fork Storm End Part 4 Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-18 | Finishing off "Fork Storm" #watercolor #mixedmedia Here's the Paint First Draw Later link I mentioned:youtu.be/4O48c5cB7Kw?si=CEr8A_Ua3AVNSQBdand here's the Exaggerated Perspective link I mentioned as well:youtube.com/live/V48GoXbJ--4?si=eJZPcehYkW-Ch2uvThis video is about finishing off the "FORK STORM" painting - luckily, my side-kick and editor extraordinaire Violet has sped up the slow bits so that this is a good bit faster than it actually took me to paint.
Fork Storm Highlights & Colour 2 #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-15 | Working on a spoon and the blue glass balls in the grip of a fork.
Fork Storm Highlights Colour 1 #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-11 | Adding the look of metal to the cutlery - I hope! Not something I've ever painted in watercolour before - so it's all an adventure.One of the forks looks older than the others, darker metal. I hope it comes across okay.
Watercolour Tissue Textures Part 2 #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-11 | Creating a textured substrate for watercolours, using wet strength tissue paper, and then painting on watercolours! Easy exercise.
Watercolours on Tissue Texture Part 1 #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-08 | Using Wet Strength Carnival tissue paper to create texture for watercolours. Playing with textures.
Feathers Stencil Testing #pmartiststudio #gelplate Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-06 | Testing out my new Feathers Stencil. Making papers for the recent Box Collage Live Stream.I made 3 forms of this stencil, one is the blank feathers shapes, one is the patterned feathers and one is the patterned feathers connected by birds.I wasn't sure about the connecting birds stencil and here you see why.
Leaves Project 4: Last Touches #watercolor #mixedmedia Fran OnTheEdge 2024-03-01 | Showing the improvement in the intensity of colour in the 2nd leaves piece, and the introduction of shadow in the last leaves piece to bring the leaves forward from the background, and give definition to the veins.
Small Box Collage Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-28 | Fixing and collaging a small cardboard box, so it will once again hold things and be a bit stronger. And prettier, or at least more interesting! With a little test of a new stencil.
Watercolour Leaves Part 3 #watercolour #watercolor Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-23 | Working on the 3rd part of the Leaves Project, which is the masking fluid version.Also, I finally get around to adding various watercolour mediums, like: Ox Gall Liquid, Blending Medium, Texture Medium, and Iridescent Medium.Again, this is not meant to be an accurate representation of leaves, but a joyous celebration of colours.Part 1: youtu.be/0AJHBAs8tSs?si=5G05-wGqZUo8YvczPart 2:youtu.be/zWDVxC8mD4A?si=xsP5ayW4IVTTuiHM
Watercolour Leaves Part 2 #watercolor #watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-19 | Painting vibrant watercolours onto Golden Crackle paste leaf shapes. 1 piece with gesso on 300gsm 140lb paper.I'm initially thinking of Autumn colours, but going really vibrant and strong as well.This is not intended to be very detailed or exact, even if it's not as loose as I'd like.So far I'm very happy with the results, although I'd like to boost the colours more.Part 1 is here: youtu.be/0AJHBAs8tSs?si=5G05-wGqZUo8Yvcz
Waves With Violet #watercolor #watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-12 | Adding details to the beach scenes.Testing brushes for fine details on waves, foam, over sand etc. Testing brush strokes and lightness of paint over previous paint.
Grunge Journal Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-12 | Grunge Journal cover and pages with some Ephemera added inside.
Anger And Frustration Experiment Using Watercolour and Gouache. #watercolor #watercolour #gouache Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-09 | Talking about results of swatches for Fork Storm painting.Anger and Frustration: cathartic experiment in emotionally driven watercolour and gouache painting, and an attempt to escape those feelings.Will it work? Watch and see!
Books and Testing Paints for Fork Storm With Violet #watercolor #watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-05 | Looking at some loose watercolour books and testing new Mic and doing paint swatches for the Fork Storm.
Fork Storm! #watercolour #Forks #Spoons Fran OnTheEdge 2024-02-02 | Yes, we have Stormy Forks, folks.This is my attempt to get this idea of flying cutlery out of my head and down on to paper. Inspired by a hanging wind chime I have made from cutlery - twisted and bent out of shape. And from the thought of things flying towards you - maybe exploding.Well... we'll see how this turns out.today, drawing it and masking off.
Beaches: Free Form Watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-31 | Playing with watercolour movement, wet into wet, and using salt. Beaches!
Ideas For Watercolour Experimentals Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-29 | I got most of these watercolour experimental techniques from Jean Haines' books, but we've done most of them before, although maybe not in quite these ways.The last one is simply playing on my new Arches 300gsm/140lb cold pressed paper.So letting the brush dance around on the paper, for fun!
Honesty 3 - final VITAL touches. Revisiting Holes. Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-26 | Final finishing touches on the Honesty piece, Revisiting Holes piece, and final touches on the dark Poppy.
Honesty 2: Adding colour and DRAMA to Seedheads! Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-24 | Adding colour to the Honesty seed capsules, after removing the masking fluid. This is my best attempt so far at Loose Watercolours, this has the right dream-like quality, that I've been trying to learn.I call this a success!
Honesty 1: FUN Loose Watercolour Experiments #watercolor #abstractart #watercolour Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-22 | More Loose Watercolour.This background on the Honesty is rather good. The next stage could be daunting.I want to go over the 'Holes' piece again with another colour, or just try it again.
FROLICS PART 2 #watercolor #watercolour #abstractart Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-19 | Part 2 of FROLICS shows the next stage after removing the masking fluid - which, as it is fiddly and takes quite a while, I did off camera.This is on the grain picture,which might be wheat, oats, rye or wild grass for all I know! it's just grain.
FROLICS PART 1 #watercolor #watercolour #abstractart Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-15 | Painting experimental pieces, abstracts. Hoping for looseness, not quite getting it. But still getting some rather nice results.
Camera Test With Watercolours and Masking Fluid Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-10 | Testing a different Camera and playing with Masking fluid and Watercolours.The video I mentioned is this one by Liz Chaderton:youtu.be/7QVkGQHr6f8?si=gwU8dP1COLaRlKcnIt's very useful with lots of info about how to use Masking Fluid, plus it's where I got the notion to do ears of grain.
The Bigger Picture Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-08 | Moving to a bigger paper size. A 12" by 9" paper block.Still trying for a looser more fluid look. The "Intuitive Style" hopefully.
Intuitive Watercolour Play With The Mad Scientists Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-05 | Making intuitive watercolour art pieces - just playing with colour, line and shape.No pressure, very relaxing.Come and have fun with the Mad Scientists!
Painting With Violet: Watercolour and Procreate Fran OnTheEdge 2024-01-01 | I'm painting some exercises in Watercolour and testing out ways to use a few of my brushes. Testing out new paints.And at the end Violet shows us what she's been doing with Procreate while I painted.Just some gentle, relaxing creative play.
Watercolour Exercises: Skies #watercolor #watercolour #abstractart Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-29 | Watercolour Exercises: Skies.Here I'm just following some watercolour exercises from a book called "Painting Landscapes and Nature" by Richard Bolton.There are some nice simple exercises in it plus some more complex exercises.
Watercolour Practice - Playing with Watercolours #watercolor #watercolour #watercolorpainting Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-25 | Creating Play or Practice art, in watercolours.The first of mine is taken from an exercise in one of my Watercolour books: WATERCOLOUR; Techniques and Tutorials for the Complete Beginner, by Paul Clark.And the second is a desert sunset from a favourite childhood book of mine. It shows the Tombs in the desert just outside the city of Tashbaan from the story "The Horse and his Boy" by CS Lewis.But the work I liked best was Violet's work on the watercolour from a few days before. I liked quite a few of hers today but I just loved the raised gold and the black pen details on that bigger piece. I think she ought to name that one, and she definitely needs to sign it!
Recreating the abstract watercolour that we did NOT record. #watercolour #watercolor #abstract Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-22 | This is our attempt to recreate the simple small watercolours that we played about with offline on Wednesday.Making tiny art.
Watercolours on the GelPlate #watercolour #watercolorpainting #abstractart Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-18 | Using watercolours on a gel plate.Creating Abstract Watercolours and having fun.
Murdering some papers - With Stencils! #pmartiststudio #stencil #watercolors Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-16 | Hoping to create a lovely mess. Gel Plate? Watercolour? Acrylics? What?
More watercolours, more layers! #watercolorpainting #watercolouring #watercolor Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-11 | Using watercolours and other things to build up an image. youtube.com/watch?v=AUlD6D39STY&t=1315s
Creating with Mad Frankie and Violet #watercolor #watercolour #abstractart Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-09 | A Watercolour self challenge.
Black Waters? Black Watercolours! #watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolouring Fran OnTheEdge 2023-12-05 | Doing some work/play with watercolours on black watercolour paper. And maybe white paper? Plus some more newly made dissolved Nat Geo papers after playing about with PhotoShop (- other paint programs are available.) Lol Here's the link to the video I'm following for the atmospheric scene: youtu.be/gKKqzw-VrBU?si=_8iaopUGAImHsW1- From Lois and Morgaine Davidson Art
