Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
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Friday, 5 April 2013

Paint Party Friday






This week I have been concentrating on getting my illustration web site ready for uploading, I hope to have it done by next week, but knowing me it will probably be the week after.  The creative work is done, but I have to sort the codes and get the code verified etc. etc. Boring, so I tend to find other things to do!  But, I have taken myself in hand, as hopefully it will become my bread and butter.

The upshot is that I have only spent a little bit of time painting, and my portrait is far from finished.  To keep my spirits up (painting mode that is) I have done a couple of watercolours.  The one above is the window sill next to my computer desk.  I love the blue bottle the colours fascinate me when the sun catches it.
The gouache below is of Lucy my big ‘Fat Mama’ cat!  She is very much an indoor cat, huge and lazy.  However, if there is a smell of a mouse she is like a young gazelle and can move at the speed of light!  Her favourite position is on a window sill surveying the world.

The next is a gouache I did during 29 Faces; I just love that poem by Coleridge and often use it to encourage me to think anything is possible.  What would you do if you had that dream and woke up with a flower clenched in your hand…..?



Happy Paint Party Friday everyone.

Friday, 15 March 2013

A Medley



Over the last 2 weeks, I have been away from home and have not had access to the internet or most of my art materials.  However, I still managed to do some art, as I had my laptop and watercolors and some pencils.
I painted these watercolours from photos of my garden
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 Altered Book



I also took with me, a project that I have been working on - an altered book.  The book is For the Love of a Rose by Antonia Ridge.  A much loved Auntie visited me in Britain and saw my hedge of the Peace Rose in the front of my house.  When she got home she sent me her copy.  It is about how the Peace Rose came about, a love story of the rose and the love story within the two families involved. I saw a copy in a junk shop last year and thought then it would be good for an altered book project. So finally I have started on the project.  I have decided to redo the story in my words and my illustrations.



For the title page I pasted a photo of the peace rose cut out from the book and used the colours of the rose.


The next pages I did waterclour and pencil faces of the founders of the Meilland dynasty – the first love story.

A Dedication

The next project is very dear to my heart.  As some of you may know my mum has Alzheimer’s and she lives with my sister in Perth.  I feel helpless being so far away.  But there is one thing I can do for her and my family.  I have decided to make a book dedicated to her life.  I hope to have it finished so that I can give it to her and my sister when I visited next Christmas.  So over the last two weeks I took the opportunity to get stuck in.  The above is from a photo of her on her sixteenth birthday party.

I am now back in harness, and hope to spend next week working on journal pages and doing a painting I promised two weeks ago.  However, I am mindful of the old adage ‘the best laid plans of mice and men….’

Happy Paint Party Friday everyone.

Monday, 4 March 2013

Pineaplple Lilies



Now that 29 Faces has finished I am going to keep Mondays for one of my loves that I haven’t blogged much about - digital manipulation of photos and artworks.

Today I have chosen to use photos from my parched garden.


The pineapple lily is amazing as you can see the land is parched and it is doing the best ever!

I decided to combine the photos and show the feeling of heat.

Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3


The software I used was Photoshop and Photoscape.

Linking to