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Be More You - Expressive Drawing

23/2/2021

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Expressive drawing means being more YOU…

It means letting your thoughts and feelings show up in your drawing as part of your art.

It’s all about looking, feeling and being creative… but where to start with this?
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The objective of this drawing lesson is to understand how to put your own expression and personality into your art.

In this section, we’re looking more at our personal self-expression in our art...

We’ll be building on what we thought about in the previous post about collecting personal and meaningful drawing inspiration from nature…
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As well as our thoughts about what art is and why our self-expression in art matters.

Expressive drawing

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Artwaves Festival Open Art Exhibition 2021

22/2/2021

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The Artwaves Festival is going digital this year and I'm taking part in the Open Art Exhibition, on now until 7th March 2021...
Peony & Comma Butterfly artwork part of the Artwaves Festival 2021 Open Art Exhibition
Peony & Comma Butterfly artwork - part of the 2021 Artwaves Festival Open Art Exhibition
You can see my 'Peony & Comma Butterfly' artwork alongside over 200 other beautiful and interesting artworks on all different themes and in all different styles. You can also vote for mine or another favourite as the 'audience's choice.' See the digital art exhibition here...

The Artwaves Festival is also holding a week of excellent art & creativity workshops and demos (all to be held online this year) - get inspired and be a part of the festival here...
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Blue Butterflies Celtic Medieval Art

16/2/2021

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Inspired by Celtic knotwork and Medieval manuscripts - my 'Blue Butterflies' Celtic Medieval artwork...
'Blue Butterflies' Celtic medieval artwork by Lotti Brown
'Blue Butterflies' Celtic Medieval artwork by Lotti Brown
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If you've taken my Essential Drawing Skills course, you'll know that I'm very inspired by Medieval artwork and Medieval manuscripts, as well as Celtic knotwork... 

Now that I feel a little more practised with my Celtic knotwork, I thought I'd see if I could also bring in more of a feel of a medieval manuscript - I love the way that tiny paintings of flowers, butterflies, birds, animals and even people decorate the edges of the manuscript pages, and I thought I'd like to bring something of that to this artwork.

​I'm also drawing on my recent Celtic art style butterfly and flower artworks - I wanted to keep drawing butterflies as I've loved drawing them so much.
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I started out with the Celtic knotwork - carefully planning out a design...

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Celtic Ash Tree Art, Myth & Folklore

11/2/2021

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Celtic ash tree art prints & products, Celtic tree calendar version, plus ash tree myth and folklore...
celtic ash tree art
Celtic ash tree art
Celtic ash art (standard version)
Ash is one of our mightiest trees...

​A huge physical specimen when mature...

​But also a tree with some of the most impressive myth, meaning and folklore around it.

So let’s explore!

​And get to know one of our native British trees a little better…
Celtic tree calendar art - ash
Celtic tree calendar art - ash - 18 February to 17 March
Celtic ash art (tree calendar version)

Ash

Celtic Tree Calendar: 18 February to 17 March
  • Latin name: Fraxinus
  • Irish/Gaelic name: Nuin
  • Common names: esh, eshen tree, hoop ash, skedge, Hampshire weed – names for ash fruit ‘keys’: wings, ash candles, boots-and-shoes, cats-and-keys, cat’s keys, cattikeyns, chat, esh-keys, pattikeys.
  • Language of Flowers meaning: grandeur
  • Qualities: balance, stability, strength, protection, connection, vitality, fertility, justice, wisdom, connection
  • Associations: World Tree, Yggdrassil, Odin, Woden, Norns, Nemesis, Andrasteia, Andraste, Achilles, spear, lightning, rain, thunderstorms, Thor, Yule log, shew-ash, husbandry

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Celtic Daisy & Painted Lady Butterfly Art

5/2/2021

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Pretty Daisy and Painted Lady butterfly artwork in a Celtic knotwork style...
Celtic Daisy and Painted Lady artwork by Lotti Brown
Celtic Daisy and Painted Lady artwork by Lotti Brown
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We're feeling as fresh and happy as a summer daisy with my pretty Painted Lady butterfly artwork - there's nothing like an innocent daisy to bring us a cheerful smile!

I create my artwork digitally from hand-drawn pieces in pen, marker, and coloured pencil. Here's how I created this piece...

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Celtic Peony & Comma Butterfly Art

4/2/2021

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Fabulously floral Peony & Comma Butterfly Celtic art by Lotti Brown - art prints & printed products available...
Celtic art 'Peony and Comma Butterfly' by Lotti Brown
Celtic Peony and Comma Butterfly art by Lotti Brown
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A sense of summer with this blousy pale pink peony and pretty, colourful comma butterfly...

I create my artwork from pen and pencil drawings and then put everything together digitally to create the final piece... here's how it happened...

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Celtic Rose and Red Admiral Butterfly Artwork

3/2/2021

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Pretty pink rose and red admiral butterfly artwork...
Celtic pink rose and red admiral butterfly artwork
Celtic Pink Rose and Red Admiral Butterfly artwork
Rose & Red Admiral art prints & products
A striking Red Admiral butterfly alights on a pretty pink rose with Celtic knotwork surround...

I create my artwork digitally from my own pen drawings...
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Peacock Butterfly & Sunflower Artwork

2/2/2021

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Loving nature and sunshine with my pretty Peacock Butterfly & Sunflower art prints & products...
Peacock Butterfly & Sunflower wall art
Peacock Butterfly & Sunflower wall art
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I made this artwork on a dark winter's day to take me to a feeling of sunshine and summer - hope it can take you, too, on a journey through nature to sunny days...

In the language of flowers, the sunflower means adoration - and its beauty is well matched by the stunning peacock butterfly!
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How I created my butterfly and sunflower art

My art is all hand-drawn with pens and pencils, and then put together digitally - here's how I made it...

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New Butterflies & Flowers Art Collection

1/2/2021

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I'm very excited to introduce you to my new collection of four Butterflies & Flowers artworks with a Celtic art style...
Floral butterfly artwork collection of four
Floral butterfly artworks collection of four

I've been working on these for the last few weeks and have really enjoyed creating artworks that feel so much like sunshine and summer, with beautiful colours and sensuous swirls.

​I hope you love them too...

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Celtic Owl Art

27/1/2021

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Enchanting Celtic owl art - art prints, homewares, T-shirts, accessories, tech-cases and more...
Celtic Owl artwork
Celtic Barn Owl artwork
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The beautiful owl is one of the oldest of the animals of the world in the Celtic tradition - a bird of wisdom with connections to the Otherworld... 

She is also associated with the 'old woman' or 'crone' aspect of the Triple Goddess figure of Celtic myth and legend and can be present with us in times of ending or darkness...

I created my Celtic Owl artwork digitally from pen drawings and ink paintings... here's what happened...

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