Blog One

Hi there

Let me introduce myself. I am Lizzie Tobin artist, which you will already know if you’ve got this far. I thought I’d let you have an insight into how I go about producing a digital painting to make into a print which, if all goes well, I will be able to sell. I am not one of those artists who think you should just paint for pleasure, although it is pleasurable. I mean artists have overheads. Even to produce one digital print, and I do not reproduce them interminably, I limit them to editions of ten or one off original prints, I have to pay for a broadband connection, a phone contract-I take photos on my phone and upload them to Google Drive after I have made a detailed sketch. I then upload this to my digital programme. I use a free package called Epixlr which I was kindly given at art college. It has all the basic requirements. I would like to experiment more but won’t at this point go into the frustrations of applying for college courses in Pembrokeshire where I live. I then colour in the sketch using the digital palette, which I find strangely appealing in its simplicity and uniformity of colour and tone. I then upload the image to my files and send it to a professional printer.

That’s all for today guys. I will be updating you on my progress as I am investing in online assistance to promote my art and trying to increase my social media following. Thanks for reading.

Lizzie