Yesterday's picture that came from nowhere, it kind of evolved as I was making it. The flowers arrived at the end when my feelings had changed. Flowers represent happiness.
Oh the human condition! I'm off to get me some nice music to listen to. :)
wow, this is beautiful!! I have been fighting the snow the last few days plus going to the Christmas Art Markets where I have my handbound books displayed so I am catching up with your beautiful posts this evening. This is soooo wonderful with these two cats and all the fresh flowers!!
An absolutely beautiful picture, love the happy expressions and the flowers. It is very white here in Yorkshire, the flowers in the garden are buried and the cats aren't very pleased as it is deeper than they are tall! Carol xx
I truly think that this is one of your best pieces yet! The detail with all of the tiny designs makes it such a pleasure to look at and the overall composition is great. The colors work very well together and remind me of folk art. <3
I love this! I love this. Yes! You do watercolors with ease. I can see it. I shall not stop. Thank you for the encouragement. I need all I can get. Haha! By the way, I use the pre-filled micron pens 005 nib but lately I have started using the wider nibs instead of going over so many times an area with the 005 nib. I also use the Rapidograph pens with India ink on certain occasions when I really want to create minute details. I use the 008 nib which I have to constantly dip into the ultrasonic cleaner to prevent from clotting.
Hello, I'm here today to tell you about my giveaway! I reached 100 likes on my Facebook page a few days ago, 142 today! ♥ THANKYOU! ♥ There will be two prizes, one will be my original watercolour painting, painted on thick watercolour paper, with lovely soft hues of pink and mauve called 'Peace' :) I'm also offering you a print on lovely Bristol paper from my mixed media painting 'Open Up To The Best'. Here they are.. Peace, watercolour painting, 8 x 11 inches Open Up To The Best , art print 8 x 10 inches. (The copyright watermark will not appear on your print.) To Enter: Go to my Facebook page where the link for my giveaway is and 'share' and 'like' the link. There! That's all you need to do. :) If you're not a Facebook person , that's still ok, just copy and paste one of these pictures above to your blog with a link to this post but don't forget to come back here to tell me that you've...
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...
Brixham Harbour It's been a while since my last post hasn't it? It's been a very busy Easter holiday for me, lots of things to sort out and jobs to do. Today's my first day at home but there's so much catching up to do after being away I don't know where to start! So I decided to start right here and to make this blogpost :) I did manage to have some relaxing time too and one of the places we went to was Avebury Manor. I've been to Avebury stone circles more times than I can count but have never visited the 500 year old Manor House. Each room has been restored to a different time period to represent the different generations of people who lived there over the years. I love the handpainted wallpaper in one of the rooms, so detailed. It was difficult to choose which part to photograph there was so much amazing pattern. It's based on an early English chinoiserie wallpaper from around 1700. The artist Mark Sands working on t...
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wonderful with these two cats and all the fresh flowers!!
It is very white here in Yorkshire, the flowers in the garden are buried and the cats aren't very pleased as it is deeper than they are tall!
Carol xx
so many wonderful details.