Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 18, 2010, 5:52 am
Hi all,         I have been offline for a few days now and as from tomorrow will be so until Monday, and to cut a long story this is due to a cock up by my ISP, whic...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 12, 2010, 9:38 pm
Hi all,       Another quickie, Blogger has rolled out a new feature in draft called Template Designer, which allows us to recreate our blogs, with some funky new designs, cust...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 12, 2010, 9:22 pm
Hi all,            As promised the stones are put to one side for a change and my pencils are back in hand and am feeling quite inspired to get some s...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 11, 2010, 1:53 am
Hi all,      Just a quickie to say that I am still here, but been busy working on my stones, so now new artwork yet to show. However the pencils are calling me and I do have a few ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 5, 2010, 2:15 am
Hi all,         After much thought I have set up a new blog for my stone painting, as this is going to be a long time commitment, I feel it needs its own place in th...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Mar 4, 2010, 1:41 am
Hi all, Its been a while since my last update, but I have had one or two puter problems, and hubby had taken it for fixing, plus I am totally obsessed with my new passion stone painting,which I cannot...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 22, 2010, 12:44 pm
Hi all, Here a few more of my stones.....my fav being the Pink Ladies! I am having lot of fun doing these and hope to do some more, with lots of different styles and colours. Not all are finished or g...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 19, 2010, 12:19 pm
Hi all, Firstly I would like to thank every one for their comments, each one has been most helpful, and helped me to come to a decision about this piece. As you can see from the picture I blended ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 16, 2010, 8:26 am
Hi all, So is my latest update and with it problems of my own making ......will I never learn! I love this dog picture, but I am struggling with the background which I have said before, so useless...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 13, 2010, 12:23 pm
Hi all, I have had two weeks of rock painting and much fun getting creative, and I will post up a pic of my efforts when I take a photo tomorrow, but now it is back to my pencils with vengeance ! ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 7, 2010, 8:41 am
Hi all, It has been a week since I last updated, but I have not been drawing but painting stones again, hence the delay! I just cannot seem to get enough of this rock painting lark.....I am addicted...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Feb 1, 2010, 12:46 pm
Hi all, This is where I am at the moment, but this pic is taking a little longer than I had hoped, especially around the mouth area, getting that pug pushed up nose look ! I am still using the sa...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 30, 2010, 12:08 pm
Hi all, No art to show today, as I have been tweaking my website galleries with the aim to making it easier to navigate. I have always had the galleries laid out as Coloured Pencil and Graphite, but...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 29, 2010, 12:48 pm
Hi all, This is my new work in progress and I think is a Pug Cross. I took the photo at a dog show a few years ago, and have been meaning to draw him for ages, as he is an older dog and quite cute...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 28, 2010, 9:38 am
Hi all, I am going to call this one done now, as if I tweak and adjust any more it will be ruined. I am pleased with it and really like the hint of colour, but as I also scanned it in grey scale I ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 24, 2010, 1:11 pm
Hi all, So this is where I am at the moment, and this current stage was scanned in under colour rather than grey scale to show the eyes and collar off a bit more. I am fascinated with combining ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 22, 2010, 1:04 pm
Hi all, Got to say that I am really pleased with the way this drawing is coming. I don't use Graphite as much as CPs, but I do find it to be a faster medium and capable of so much, and at tim...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 19, 2010, 9:13 am
Hi all, I have started a new piece of work in Graphite, actually I have four on the go, but am sharing this one here. Some of you may remember the picture that I did of a Rottweiler some time ago...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 14, 2010, 12:53 pm
Hi all, Here is my latest update on the Golden Lab, which is almost finished now. I am not entirely happy with it...something I always seem to say coming to the end of a piece lol, however this...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 11, 2010, 12:18 pm
Hi all, Ok this is where I am at with my Golden drawing,which is coming along nicely methinks.....more so since I nearly put it on the bin pile the other day ! If I am honest though, I have ma...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 8, 2010, 12:59 pm
Hi all, I have made a few changes to this blog,firstly the template as I felt it needed a little colour injected into it...got really fed up with the plain white. The template I chose takes it back to...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jan 8, 2010, 7:58 am
Hi all, I hope you all had a good Xmas and New Year,despite the very cold temperature's. Who would of believed it that 2010 has started with Britain in the grip of a deep freeze! It has been very...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Dec 23, 2009, 11:15 pm
Hi all, Gosh I cannot believe that we are already at the end of 2009, the year has just seem to of flown by! When I think back over it, so much has happened in many different ways, and got to say it h...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Dec 2, 2009, 2:52 am
Hi all, Just a quickie to let you know that I am still here,but have had quite a bit to do over the past few weeks which has kept me from the puter. Also I have not been feeling too well due t...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Nov 13, 2009, 12:44 pm
Hi all, This week I have not been doing too much of anything art/computer wise, as I have not being feeling too well and I have got me mum coming for a long weekend, so my limited energy has been t...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Nov 4, 2009, 12:15 am
Hi all, No animal art to show today, instead something of an Abstract piece done in my sketch book. I have got to say doing work like this is a real passion for me and a creative release, I jus...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Oct 30, 2009, 1:40 pm
Hi all, As you can see I have now finished the first two drawings for my puppy series. I am still not entirely happy with the basket ones, but feel it is time now to leave it alone, as for the oth...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Oct 27, 2009, 1:09 am
Hi all, This is where I am at with my Xmas pup image so far, and it is coming along really well. This will be added into my series of puppy pics that I am doing, and would of been the second one, b...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Oct 25, 2009, 6:28 am
Hi all, Ok got to own up to having some major senior moments for updating this blog....like three weeks worth ! Time has just flown by and I have been so busy with one thing or another that this...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Oct 7, 2009, 1:46 am
Hi all, Firstly I would like to thank everyone for their kind comments, it means alot to me and more so as an artist, as we do like to know what other artists/people think about our work. Okey dokey...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Sep 30, 2009, 5:57 am
Hi all, I am back from my break and although feeling a little tired, am ready to pick up my pencils and start creating. For those of you who follow me, you will understand the reason why I need...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Sep 16, 2009, 11:54 pm
Hi all, I would really just like to say thank you for all the lovely comments since my last post. When I read through them all, I realised why I love blogging so much.....you "meet" great peopl...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Sep 3, 2009, 6:29 am
Hi all, It is with great regret that I will be leaving Blogger for a while. My posting over the last few months has dropped off and I am finding it quite difficult to keep up with making posts whic...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Sep 1, 2009, 5:17 am
Hi all, This is where I am at with this drawing, and it is really beginning to gel now, as I continue to build the layers up. I am hoping to have this done by tomorrow and then on to the next on...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Aug 30, 2009, 2:18 am
Hi all, This is my current WIP a black GSD ,size 12 x 10 inches. She is only a youngster and completely lovely, and we met at one of the local dog shows recently,where she was in awe a bit of a...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Aug 24, 2009, 12:24 pm
Hi all, This is Diva all finished, and I am pleased with how it has turned out. Find myself drawn to Graphite pencils quite a bit these days, and am enjoying working with this humble medium. I h...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Aug 18, 2009, 12:35 pm
Hi all, I hope all of you Uk dwellers are enjoying the constant sunshine we have been having? I know that we have, and this in turn just is still keeping me outside and away from my drawing board ...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Aug 12, 2009, 1:20 am
Hi all, I have no art to show today, as my time has been taken up with lots of other things. Firstly I was judging a dog show at the weekend which was great fun, again so many different breeds,sh...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Aug 5, 2009, 12:44 pm
Hi all, Again I find myself way behind with everything due to a week of builders coming in and out to fix my bathroom and the arrival of tree surgeons to remove some very large overhanging tr...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jul 29, 2009, 12:48 pm
Hi all. I have just realised it has been a week, since my last post...just seem to lose track of all time lol. The weekend I went to a dog show and got some more great shots, and as usual my pal Nico...
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Victoria S. posted an article on Art With A Pencil - Jul 21, 2009, 1:06 pm
Hi all, This is my latest piece of work, which started out originally as a small drawing of just the cats head, 8x6 mounted. It has come out quite well and I thought that cropping into the cat ...
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