With my Left Hand
What can you do with your left hand? (Or if you are left-handed, with your right one?) For most of us the non-dominant hand is in a sort of āsupporting …
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Acrylic Painting: Two for Joy
On a scale of one to ‘stupidly-proud’, I am at… well, pretty insanely proud šĀ It’s so beautiful I can hardly believe I made it! And here it is, the …
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Acrylic Painting: An Autumn Sunset
I am very proud of this one.Ā In fact I may be in love with it because I do not believe any photograph does justice to how beautiful it actually …
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The Sea and She: Acrylic
The image was flashing in my mind for some weeks now. It had to be night, it had to be by the sea, and she had to be wearing an …
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Watercolour: Hobbit’s Home
The door is ajar. I’ve been wondering since last night (i.e. since painting this) whether the hobbit is inside or out of the home. I feel like I know that …
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Little Things: Watercolour
Little thingsĀ with big eyes Big hearts Full of little things ..innocence, warmth Hope, hop, spring Warmth of the sun Warmth of a hearthĀ Warmth of new leavesĀ Warmth of …
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First Oil Painting!
Of all things on a buy and sell facebook page, I came across an oil painting class being offered by a lady within stone’s throw from my place. And so …
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Trust the Path
We cannot typically know the destination, but we can usually if not always, see the path. Do you trust the path? If one is anxious, frustrated, depressed, impatient- it is …
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Abstract
An abstract water-colour suddenly and rapidly emerges at the end of several long weeks, and the start of a long weekend. I wonder if I should give it a name, …
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Weekend Art: Capturing Colmar
I have had a fascination for some years now, with the fairytale French town of Colmar. And about time I decided to paint it..
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Watercolour: Olden Days
This one was made relatively quickly.. the weekend before. Something about olden days, and unadulterated dawns..of vast distances and leisurely pace..
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Watercolour: Crossing the Bridge
This weekend saw another Sunday swept up by brush-strokes. As always, I am supremely proud of my painting, which I am calling..well, ‘crossing the bridge’.
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A Water-colour Sunday
Unplanned, spontaneous, consuming. That’s how I find I like art best. And that’s how I found it this fine Sunday, when I spontaneously picked up my paints and brush in …
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Birthday of the boy
My favourite boy had his birthday earlier this week. Continuing with our preference for making gifts, I took up a slightly challenging one this time. I painted him doing what …
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Winter in Watercolour
A dark-purple walled house, melding with the velvet dark blue of the night sky.. at the end of neat rows of leafless trees. Snow and complete silence on the outside… …
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