Creativity

There is soooooo much happening in October that I felt it needed to be bundled up in some joy and renamed. So starting on October 1st  we have the ARTober Challenge starting that encompasses all [...]

It’s MerMay! Celebrate mermaids with me all month with the MerMay Art Challenge. The way it works: – You create art inspired by the fun,daily prompt below. – There’s no [...]

Fabulous Figures is a #1 best seller and has sold out on Amazon! This makes me smile because it isn’t even up to the official publishing date yet. I really put my heart into my books, and [...]

I have created over twenty workshops since I started teaching online seven years ago. Of all the things I do, and I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before,  putting my workshops together [...]

  INKredible® Collection You may have seen my new INKredible® Inks arriving into Michaels stores in the USA and Canada. They are vivid, dye-based inks that think they are watercolour. But [...]

  Hello Davenpeeps! I hope this post finds you well! Today I’m showing you how mindless colour play and experimentation can then be transformed into pretty funky tip ins and journal [...]

Anita Posted this amazing page featuring my Washi tape on her Instagram and I asked her to share how she created it! You can follow Anita ‘Ninny Noo ‘ Tillman on Instagram here: [...]

    There are some WONDERFUL videos popping up on Youtube and Instagram and Fb featuring my new collection. This one is from By Bun who posts videos daily. I love her, and her fun style [...]

JANE-uary is HERE baby!!! Queue the disco music, get the mirror ball spinning, release the balloons! I have a reveal of my full range in the videos  – Ta-Dah! Let’s celebrate with a [...]

Are you super-creative, love art supplies and feel ready to show the world your artwork? Then I want you to read on and join the DavenParty! I want to inspire people who enjoy all sorts of [...]

Did you follow along on the countdown for #janessecret? If so, thank you for your lovely company! The announcement happens at 10am AEST ( that’s Sydney Time if you are using a time [...]

Let’s have a yummy Giveaway! I have some sets of super- pigmented Schmincke colors – you just have to sign up to my newsletter to enter (it’s in the turquoise blue box on the [...]

I contributed to a brand new book by the lovely Lorraine Bell celebrating the wonderful and humble crayon! One of my images is being used in the promotion of the book: My copy should arrive any [...]

It’s World Watercolour Month! So let’s have ourselves a little celebration about watercolour shall we? Do you LOVE watercolour? If, so tell me why and let me know your favourite [...]

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oops! I am in such a flurry of preparing for my next round of workshops and life in general I completely spaced on announcing a winner for the Ever After Blog Hop!   My apologies! The winner [...]

As a general rule, anything not labelled ‘artist quality’; or not specifically marked ‘lightfast’ is usually not lightfast. Some dyes and pigments are just not stable and undergo chemical [...]

I have some wonderful & exciting news! I am going to be teaching on Ever After 2016! As you know, I love using fairytales as source material for my art, so of course I said ‘yes’ [...]

What a lovely surprise ! This email from Cloth Paper Scissors titled “Jane Davenport’s Greatest Wish” has a little drawing lesson from me and why I think drawing is so good for [...]

Thank you for all your fabulous entries for the Wonderland Watercolour workshop Scholarship! Our winner is Beth Harcourt: “I LOVE the Johnny Depp mad hatter for both costumes/makeup and his [...]

I have some fun news, I am joining the Brave Girls University as a teacher this year! To celebrate I have a code that gives a free trial month! I am creating my courses and will have them up in [...]

When Joanne Sharpe was at ‘The Nest’ we did a little secret filming and created a fantastic online workshop! ‘Miss Quoted’ registration is open now. The workshop opens on [...]

Lifebook registration opens soon and I hope you pop in and join from my blog when the time comes! But in the mean time, Congratulations to Kristin Langlais because she wins a spot in Lifebook [...]

Interweave have put together a sweet collection for my book,  Art Lessons and  6 of my favourite watercolours from Daniel Smith! It was very hard to select only six of my favourite  colours by [...]

My next online class is called JOYnal and the excitement is building up in the Facebook group already. We have some great swaps going on and just arty fun in general. One of the things I enjoy [...]

I have a feature on the Daniel Smith Site that is all about Buff Titanium. I just visited the site and when I saw my name come up on the front page with a host of fabulous watercolourists, I did [...]

I am one of the invited guest artists for The Documented Life Project. The theme for the Project is this month is: Expressive Faces and the Journal Prompt this week is: I can see clearly now The [...]

I’m curious to know what your favourite colour is and why and I have a giveaway to encourage you to share! Mine is pretty easy to guess! I like to call ‘my’ particular shade of [...]

It’s the last week of filming for the all new ‘Supplies Me’ I have really enjoyed revamping the whole workshop. It was the first stand-alone ecourse I ever created, and I really [...]

This post has a little bit of everything in it! There’s lots going on around the Nest… What keeps me busiest is producing all the new videos and content for ‘Supplies Me’. [...]

I had my first ‘Mentor Retreat’ this weekend. My intention with this new type of event, was to have a small group, so we could really hang out all weekend, relaxing and doing art. We [...]

Art Lessons 2014 Vol. 12: Colored Pencils Click the link to beamed over !  

January 5th: Art supply addicts around the world, unite. ‘Supplies Me!’ was the first stand-alone e-course that I created and it’s primary goal has always been to release you [...]

This year has been a really busy one for me, and now, as the calendar approaches the end of the year, it usually gets even busier. But I changed things up. I made this plan back in January. I [...]

InterWeave, who publish Cloth Paper Scissors, my Whimsical Face DVD and all my Art Lessons: Supply Stash Series seem to be having an especially awesome sale at the moment. Did you know that they [...]

I have a review on the new Distress Stain Sprays over at the Cloth Paper Scissors blog today. Do you really need more sprays? Probably not, I know I don’t! But I have Rainbowitis, and the [...]