So I haven’t posted for a month – great excuses coming up – new blog with just sketches on (so I have been posting, just not here), been on holiday for a week in Bavaria (gorgeous) and I have been preparing for a new piece coming up which is a bit like climbing a mountain!
Read More“Pestle and Mortar”Charcoal on Paper I can’t believe it’s nearly a year since I last posted on here. I’ve been suffering from major loss of inspiration and drive but am determined to strap on my pencils/brushes/pastels, climb back into the saddle and face that blank paper/canvas. The only thing that I have done in the…
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Its been a long time since I have posted anything – usual hiatus between postings when I am without my art materials. We are on the move – leaving Islamabad, Pakistan in early August and are currently in the States before going on to our new post. The extended stay in the States sent me…
Read MoreLandscape with a Modern Edge Group Show Opening Reception at the Newberry Gallery in Santa Monica Saturday Evening, Oct 17, 20097 – 10 pm Hefferlin, Fort Apache Reservation, 2009, oil on archival board Melissa HefferlinRobin Purcell William WrayDaud Akhriev Michael Newberry Cathey CadieuxDavid Scherrer Landscape with a Modern Edge is a show of paintings, watercolors,…
Read MoreHad a great time early one morning when I arrived at work taking photos of these pansies. I think pansies are the most endearing flowers, they seem to have little faces. Pansies are typically only about 4 – 8 inches tall which meant grovelling at ground level on very heavily dew-laden grass (I had muddy…
Read More7ft x 4ft, ink on paper February was a bad month for me – shoulder injury stopped me in my creative tracks and I have been finding it hard to get back in the groove now that I have some mobility back. I am determined though that March will see me back in full production…
Read MoreNo art today – I’ve done something excruciatingly painful to my shoulder (the right one, my painting arm of course!) and now have my arm in a sling. I’d like to say that it was doing something extraordinary, but it wasn’t – just taking laundry out of the washing machine. My husband says I should…
Read MoreToday is my son’s birthday – he is 22 today (I’m really not sure how he got to be that old because I swear I’m not much older!). I was thinking today about childhood memories of Christmas. As a child we always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve (my father was Danish and it is the…
Read MoreMy paints arrived on Friday! Spent a fun couple of hours with this apple. As usual I got way too tied up with the detail. I need to limit myself to big brushes – very hard to become detail oriented with big brushes. I’d like to thank Joe Lacorte who sent me a link to…
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