Midnight Feast

By Anita Murphy / November 27, 2008 /

There 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…

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Primary Colours

By Anita Murphy / November 25, 2008 /

When 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…

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“Squeeze from the bottom” and “Bed Linen”

By Anita Murphy / November 24, 2008 /

6″ 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…

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“The Second Bite” and Portrait Swap

By Anita Murphy / November 23, 2008 /

I 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…

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Strawberry Cheescake

By Anita Murphy / November 22, 2008 /

8″ 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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Words

By Anita Murphy / November 20, 2008 /

No artwork today. I thought I might write a little about living in Pakistan. We aren’t allowed out much – I mean at all – because of the security situation so since we have been here my experience of Pakistan has pretty much been limited to what I see on the ride to and from…

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