I recently made a list of my favourite artists and wrote down why I liked their work – the artists are many and varied in style, Monet, Bonnard, Seurat, Macke, Thiebaud, Diebenkorn, Hopper, Rothko to name a few. The predominant theme that ran through my little discourse was colour. It struck me as strange that…
Read MoreI think that I have finished this commissioned portrait. As usual impossible task of photographing graphite work and getting the paper to look white even in monochrome. I will try and get a better photo of this. Quick pastel – really liked the way the light was spilling round the edge of the canvases leaning…
Read MoreThere is nothing like milk and biscuits in the middle of the night (biscuits = cookies for the Americans, not those other biscuits!). I was thrilled to find there were Oreos in stock this week and pounced on them like they were a gold bar! Got very funny look from other shoppers when I whooped…
Read MoreWhen I came home tonight I wasn’t in the mood to paint at all and I spent at least an hour fussing about what to do, hovering between a pastel and doing my daily painting. The more I thought that I wouldn’t do a little painting, the more guilty I felt and so I ended…
Read More6″ x 4″ oil on canvasToday’s daily painting – tube of paint, and it was my husband’s suggestion to have the paint coming out of the tube so I blame him for the sheer extravagance of wasting paint! I’ve discovered that the smoother the object the more fiddly I become and its all I can…
Read MoreI ate the first bite before I even noticed it had found its way into my mouth! Had to hold back so I could get the second bite painted! Had to move into bigger format as I have run out of 8″ x 5″ canvases – can’t remember what size this is but its a…
Read More8″ x 5″, oil on canvas.Today’s little painting. The Cheesecake was plain and I added a hearty dollop of strawberry jam to top it off. I’m afraid the photo doesn’t show all the different colours in the creamy layer. Fun to paint! “The first impulse towards painting, or art in general, stems from the need…
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8″ x 6″ I know the image is on its side – I have spent the last hour today (and a lot of time yesterday) trying to get Blogger to load it correctly but it wont and I can’t be doing with the struggle anymore. I tried to load from an outside site but can’t…
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