by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Mar 9, 2021 | Art Holiday, Drawing, Watercolour
What’s better than one #mooloolabasurfclub ? FOUR. The first was sketched on our first morning at the beach (fun), the second from a photo that night (a bit staid), the third on the beach (while my students may have been taking bets on how long it would take me...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Jun 1, 2015 | How To
Pretty much anyone who’s been to a Shiny Happy Paint Along knows I love my dragonflies. They add a little “somethin’ somethin'” to a flower painting and fill in simple backgrounds quite nicely. They add movement and detail and sometimes a bit...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Apr 4, 2015 | Group Paint Alongs
In my other life I’m the marketing manager at a wonderful high school here in Toowoomba, Downlands College. A Missionaries of the Sacred Heart College, we are regularly offered retreat days, and just before Easter all staff (teachers, admin, cleaning, cooking,...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Mar 29, 2015 | Group Paint Alongs
Downlands College sent me and my colleague, photographer Catherine Mims, out to Charleville, Quilpie, Cunnamulla and Wyandra in late March, to run a series of collaborative group paintings with each community. Every session started off in a similar way, but the...
by anna@shinyhappyart.com | Mar 9, 2015 | Murals
A couple of weekends ago I got to paint a mural (at Kate’s Place childcare centre, Middle Ridge) and documented the process – after 10 hours of painting I swear these old bones were creaking, but oh, what a wonderful way to spend the...
