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Here on the artist blog of artist and designer Charlie Albright, we write about the topics of painting, drawing & illustration, surface pattern design and creative business.
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Charlie Albright
Abstract Artist & Surface Pattern Designer
Latest Blog Posts in Painting
Journal – Day 6 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
Journal entry for Day 6 of 100 Days of Abstract Painting following #the100dayproject. Continuing to analyse the images I’ve collected – following Flora Bowley’s Intuitive Painting creativebug class.
Journal – Day 5 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
Journal entry for Day 5 of 100 Days of Abstract Painting following #the100dayproject. Continuing to analyse the images I’ve collected – following Flora Bowley’s Intuitive Painting creativebug class.
Journal – Day 4 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
I am finally done with the phase of gathering inspiration and observing them closely to analyse what exactly it is that has drawn me each of the pieces that I have collected. As I was decomposing and analysing features, I used a thick black sharpie, sometimes a pen,...
Journal – Day 3 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
Today was spent just focusing on taping down my remaining stack of inspiration and annotating the features. I am determined to get this done so we can start the painting process.I am starting to get paranoid about not physically painting when this project is 100 days...
Journal – Day 2 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
Journal entry for Day 2 of 100 Days of Abstract Painting following #the100dayproject. Continuing to analyse the images I’ve collected – following Flora Bowley’s Intuitive Painting creativebug class.
Journal – Day 1 of 100 Days Of Abstract Painting
Journal entry for day 1 of 100 days of abstract painting following #the100dayproject. Using Flora Bowley’s Intuitive Painting creativebug class as guidance, today was all about gathering inspiring imagery to develop a concept for the abstract art painting process.
Currently In The Art Studio
I love how it looks at the moment and I’m hesitant to add to it, just in case I ruin it. Yes, this is the reality of what goes on in an artist’s mind… not super fancy at all is it?
Large Colourful Square Abstract Art For Your Dining Area
If you are drawn to these bright and bold colour combinations of phthalo blue, turquoise and magenta, then check out this recent large square canvas wall art to the Moments by Charlie Online Shop, titled Bright Flow.
Experimenting With A Soft Colour Palette
Yes, that time has come when I have gone mad and decided to experiment with a soft and muted colour palette. I’ve resisted the temptation to use my favourite colours of phthalo blue, torquoise and magenta, and gone ahead and tried to keep it very soft and blended. There’s no need to worry. I will never give up my bright and bold colours.
Latest Blog Posts in Drawing & Illustration
Journal – Day 2 of 100 Days Of Drawing
Journal entry for day 1 of 100 days of drawing #the100dayproject. Following Rachel Reinert’s book In Bloom – A Step by Step Guide To Drawing Flowers, I will be embarking on drawing all the flowers in the book.
Some Tips For Drawing
Journal entry for day 1 of 100 days of drawing #the100dayproject. Following Rachel Reinert’s book In Bloom – A Step by Step Guide To Drawing Flowers, I will be embarking on drawing all the flowers in the book.
January 2020 Free Wallpaper Download
First order of business for the year is this fresh wallpaper for January 2020, available free to download. I’ve included options for desktop, tablet and smartphone devices. If you can’t find the option for you, contact me and we’ll see what we can do. By the way, the artwork is a modern floral surface pattern design I created a few weeks ago.
Studio Log 02 – Reconfiguring My Website Storage & Digital Ocean Droplet
Two hours into this entire process and I think I’ve reached my limit with the speed of making edits in the blog post and waiting for it to save. So I’ve decided I might actually resize the droplet again but add another vCPU – however, this does mean I will probably wait around 15 minutes for this process to complete but that seems worth it for my sanity. Waiting 5 minutes to process each click is driving me mad.
Studio Log 01 – Preparing Modern Leaf Illustration Print Design Concepts
I’ve got a couple of hours up my sleeve this evening. My intent is to work towards finalising the release of some prints of modern leaf drawings/illustrations. Last Saturday, I released the original drawings of these modern leaf drawings on my online store, as well as on Bluethumb and Etsy. What I also want to do is also release the versions of these leaves that I have been working on in Adobe Illustrator.
Latest Blog Posts in Surface Pattern Design
Journey of Creative Pursuits
Here on the artist blog of artist and designer Charlie Albright, we write about the topics of painting, drawing & illustration, surface pattern design and creative business.
The wealth of knowledge and information contained within these blog posts, is for the fellow creative or creative business owner, who is trying to make sense of it all.
Skip to painting blog posts.
Skip to blog posts on drawing and illustration.
Skip to surface pattern design blog posts.
Skip to blog posts on creative business.
Otherwise, keep browsing until you see a blog post that intrigues you!