This little garden cutie (approx 3mm or so long) kept moving its head from side to side to get a … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
Just another Thursday sketch
This week, the wrong side. The friendly portrait group I draw with for a couple of hours most weeks is often nearly … More
Spike grew up!
The spikiest little caterpillar is now . . . the hairiest little butterfly.
Look deeply into my maw!
There’s a late summer feeding frenzy in the garden at the moment, as this year’s crop of monarch caterpillars do … More
Monsters, lovely monsters
It’s been much too long since I made any masks. And I’ve never made a classic latex mask using a plaster … More
Admirable admiral
Spike here was about 15mm long, and sitting in the middle of a plank on the deck. I couldn’t get the … More
Afterhours at the zoo
My local zoo had their annual Neighbours’ Barbeque last night, so along with other humans from my zoo-including neighbourhood I enjoyed the zoo for … More
The tiny photo bomber
A photobomberpillar? This morning I was trying to capture an image of the mouthparts on this tiny 3-4mm monarch caterpillar, … More
Fluffy wolf charcoal technique revisted
I said I’d try some more with the recently learnt slow-wolf approach to using built-up layers of black and white … More
Looking closer . . . closer . . . just a little bit closer!
When a new camera lens arrives you just have to put it on your camera and go take photos. The … More
A Little Art 