Showing posts with label abstract. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract. Show all posts

Friday, 22 November 2013

A Love Affair with Colour



Things have been a bit stormy around here, not just the weather but my life, I have had to reassess many things, and I feel that now I am starting to see sunshine and with that, lots of colour. 


Colour is what got me through; it makes my heart sing with joy.  I haven’t done much art or bloggeds over the last month or so or maybe even longer, events and personal health conspired against me.  However, I have managed to do creative things.  I have a new obsession - crochet!  When I was in hospital last September one of the nurses took pity on my frustration at not being able to do any art (they had put the drippy thingy in my right hand and it was awkward to draw with).  She came in with a basket of bright wool and crochet hooks and said would I do grannie squares for the children’s ward.  She put some foamy tubing on the needle so I could hold the hook without any problems, Yay!  So for that week I crocheted away using the brightest colours ever!

Of course when I got home, I had to dig out my old tapestry wools (I had a tapestry kit making business in a past life) and voila last week I finish my first blanket.



It is more of a throw really.  I ran out of wool.  So pleased with that I sneaked into the local wool shop and have started to collect the different colours of my boudoir.  Thus I have now started on a new project – a large blanket but a stripy one with all sorts of crochet stitches.



Back to art,  I have been looking at work I did earlier in the year and the ones that made me feel good were the colourful ones I did in July and August such as Tweety Bird below.




My heart sang, so colour here I come!



At long last my head is buzzing with joy!

Here is a photo of a climbing rose that I have along the drive way, it also makes my heart sing.



Today I am linking up with Eva and Kristin at Paint PartyFriday, thanks for visiting and have a blessed week.

 

Friday, 3 May 2013

Paint Party Friday



This week has been a watercolour week with a bit of digital art thrown in.


Our autumn has been crazy, maybe because of the drought which broke last week, bushes are flowering that should not flower until spring!  There are camellias, magnolias, daphne and even blossom on the fruit trees.  Of course I had to pick the daphne as it has an amazing scent.  In this picture I used gouache as I wanted to use white to give that translucent waxy feel the flowers have. 
   

This painting is a watercolour abstract; I did after a painting I did earlier in the week.  I tend to mix up too much paint as it can be difficult to get the same tone if you have to mix up some more during the painting.  As a result I have lots of abstract watercolours, which often turn into pages for my journal.

In my digital work I have been carrying on with my theme of behind the lace series and it is evolving quite well. I am quite pleased with the one below, this beauty I found on the web and I used brushes from http://www.annikavonholdt.com/brushes/ as well as a photo of an old window with overgrown scrub outside.  I think it gives as feeling of times long gone.  For my ladies I have decided to use a mix of images from free copy right sites and my family and I am going to experiment with drawings or paintings of the ladies concerned.


I won’t be posting for the next few weeks, as I am having surgery on my shoulder next week, but I will visit!  Time to catch up on my reading hopefully!  Perhaps, I will do some drawing with my left hand!

Have a happy Paint Party Friday