A Watery World

Yay our drought has broken!  It has rained for three days; everything has greened up and growing like triffids.

Today for SundaySketches I decided to keep with the watery theme.

 

It was really misty yesterday morning and the sun was trying to break through the sky creating this lovely pinkish atmosphere.

This sketch is not so successful, but I love how the sun can shine through the rain and highlight a bit of the landscape.

Er, um, why did I paint this?  Must have been a leftover from my purlow (purple yellow) challenge at APR!  Anyway they are some post tops in my neighbor’s garden drastically changed by me.  I thought they could be people?

The last is a close up of the now sodden and dying Mexican sunflowers that are overtaking my garden!  I had been meaning to paint them for the last couple of months.  This picture is gouache as I thought the yellows would be stronger.  Alas I mess up the background and so tried to save it with chalk pastels. 

Pick of the week.

This week I discovered a blogger that has inspired me – Michelle (Ruess) Remy of http://lostcoastpost.blogspot.com.  She is whimsical, talented, uses bright colours and does marvelous journal pages.  So check her out.

Here are some examples:

 

 

Have a wonderful creating wonderful art blessings to you all.

Quote of the week:

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.  - Christopher Morley

Within or Without?

Here is a question - Is the landscape within us the landscape outside of us?

Linking to

 Art - Journal Journey

And

Art Journal Every Day

A New Beginning

I have had to face up to some facts this week.  My shoulder has got so bad that I am unable to lift my arm much, and painting large canvases is not helping, in fact causing much of the discomfort.  So I am going to do what the physio suggests and lay off painting large.  I may get back to it, I don’t know, we will see.

So this week I have been doing small watercolours and journal pages.  With small scale I can rest my arm on the desk, so all’s good.  I got brave yesterday and decided to redo my picture of Caro on A3 card with a layer gesso.  It worked! No pain as I was able to do it flat on the table, got a bit covered in paint, but loved that.  I used acrylics, gouache and watercolours.  I added the text in Photoshop as the top corner looked empty, will think about it before adding it to original.

I was on a roll, and decided to do a portrait of my sister’s granddaughter Kendal for her birthday.  It was about A4 size on rough watercolour paper.  I did the background first and then drew Kendal and then painted over the drawing with gesso, and then used watercolour to paint her in, the pencil lines of the drawing showed through a little bit, so I found it helpful when it came to painting her.  I know it is not proper water colour techniques, but what the heck, it works!

I am not sure that it is finished yet, so will brood on it for a couple of days before posting it to my sister.

As I am talking about family the other thing I am working on is an art piece for my brother’s wedding anniversary latter this year.  It is digital and I have used photos that he has sent me since he has come back into the family fold.  Although I did use an image from freubels-freebies, you can see it in the background slightly.  The lady on the bike is a reference to the fact that Dave and Liz were bikies and spent their honey moon on Harleys touring Aussie.  This is extra special to me as Liz had breast cancer and it has just returned, so sad.  I want to add text but need to find a quote that suits.

So overall a successful week, a new beginning doing smaller works, sometimes we have to let go.

Just a reminder to anyone who journals about their faith, I have a new weekly linkup - Journal inFaith - on my Stand on Faith blog.  You are welcome to take part.

Have a happy Paint Party Friday 

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