Jessie Lilac Blog

Trees are magical aren't they? When I wander through the woods I imagine what it could be like to live there. When I was a child my brother and I were always making dens using whatever we could find for walls and a roof. I'd happily spend hours doing this but I think he'd get bored before I was satisfied that it was habitable! There was one time, I decided we'd laboured long enough for the day and we sat inside it while it rained. The next day it had gone, probably other kids in the neighbourhood couldn't resist smashing it up. I didn't mind, it was a good excuse to make another one! How amazing this stream would look if I was a very tiny creature living amongst the trees.  It could be quite dangerous if I tried to cross it but I seem to remember Thumbelina travelled on  a leaf so that might be a good idea as long as there are nibbling fish and a butterfly around to help me! You'll sometimes see trees in my paintings, I'd love to c...

Monday morning, I hope you had a lovely weekend! Mine was filled with family visiting but now the house is once again quiet, it's time to show you what I was working on just before the weekend. Thankyou so much for your lovely comments about my beach baby painting! As I had some time left at the end of the day that I finished it, I decided to work some more on a painting that you might remember from last year? Do you remember this one? I've had it hanging up on the wall at home and so each day it would catch my eye and after time, I knew I wasn't happy with the face on the yellow vase. I felt it looked unfinished and at first I was going to put more shading in it to give it depth. Something else happened once I had my paints out! Not only did I change the face, I painted over it completely and added some birds and some more spots. (If you look closely you can see the masking fluid I put on around the edges of the vase so that I wouldn't ruin the bac...

The word for Illustration Friday  this week is 'Wings' I had this sketch (on the left with the butterflies) that I'd painted a while ago and thought I could make it into a bigger painting. And so I did. Here it is: It'll be for sale quite soon in my shop. :) The snow's gone now and the sun came out over the weekend. The family had a busy day with everyone helping to tame the hedge and the next day we went out for a walk in the nearby woods and some very interesting things were discovered. Look closely at the picture and you might see some faces staring back at you from the taller trees! The carvings were made some time ago and a lot of the detail had gone but if you click here you can see earlier pictures that were taken in the past (not by me) showing more of the carvings on the ground. When I looked it up on Google I discovered that people had experienced some spooky experiences occurences there: "Over a six ...