Our adventure started in Rome, an amazing place with lovely people, even the air smelt beautiful! So many stunning churches, paintings, sculptures, fountains, shops. We even saw the Pope without knowing he'd be there at the Vatican, sat on his chair doing a talk (like you do!) Everywhere were things to please the eye. My eye anyway. and to feed the soul.
Once we'd planned our route back home to the UK, (amidst the stress!) we enjoyed an unexpected day in Paris.
Wow! I feel like I just took a mini vacation myself. Your pictures are not just lovely, but they seem to really capture the essence of the places you visited. Thank You so much. It is raining and dreary here today. I really needed this. Cenya
Wow what lovely photos! We're heading to the UK very soon and spending a week in France, I must check out those street artists looks like a fascinating place :0)
beautiful photos!!!So,all the volcano-ash experience,even if stressful ended up with extra-beautiful memories!!Eeeeeeh,I miss Paris;as for Rome is for long time ago on the''next''plan:but i can understrand that nowhere is better than home!!!So,welcome home!!
Wow, Jess! such beautiful pictures! You're so lucky to have been stranded is a magical place like Rome... and Paris as a bonus?? I suppose there was some good in that trip after all, right? :))
This is my painting for this week's Illustration Friday word. I first drew it with a black fineliner pen, added watercolour and finished the shading with coloured pencils. I don't know why I'm drawing fish recently, it could be the shape. They're similar to leaves aren't they, and teardrops or raindrops? I tend to draw a lot of spirals too. What shapes do you have a tendency to draw? (close-up view) Don't forget I have a 10% discount in my Etsy shop this week! :)
What's happened to the weather? It's raining and windy and my gas was switched of all day yesterday so it was cold too! This little sketch popped into my sketchbook from my windy head. I finished this painting on canvas above a few days ago, it's called 'Safe Harbour' and soon after finished the other painting (with the bird flying a kite) too. I didn't have a name for it until the end and I decided upon 'Summer Breeze'. That was a day when the sun was still shining but the wind was beginning to stir. Summer Breeze sounds quite soothing doesn't it and I quite like the song of the same name. :) That guitar intro takes me back to being 13 before teenage angst really set in! Windy and rainy it might be but my latest painting is filled with a peaceful setting of pattern and colour. I like textures and the effects of different painting techniques and I'm trying to balance randomness with pattern. Not an easy ta...
I like to make pictures that aren't a conventional landscape, so that the ground and the sky are interchangeable, dreamlike, floating. These paintings are done using my Tombow dual brush pens, the watercolour effect is made by adding water to the pen marks with an ordinary brush. This next one below is painted in watercolours and the black is done in waterproof drawing pens. Next is a picture made with my coloured pencils that I've had for ever. They might be ancient but they still do the job! Oh. And my black pentel brush pen and a gold gel pen. I love a bit of gold. And finally here's a cute little cucumber that Middle Daughter grew in her garden. It looks like a lemon doesn't it? It's about the same size as a satsuma and I think they're called lemon cucumbers but let me assure you they taste like a very tasty cucumber. Have a great week!xx
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Cenya
Thanks for sharing all this beauties.
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(Sorry my English)