I had some fun the last few months taking a painting class in an old house that has been repurposed into a teaching studio and is right on the beach! When my partner-in-crime artsy friend Monika asked if I was interested in this class I...
Isn't summer exquisite?I've been working very hard lately, very little time for painting.That's OK. My time will come. Have been avoiding blogging here a bit as I am supposed to be a painter and that's hard to blog when I am painting so little but...
Mother's Day. Some horizontal contemplation allowed....
I've been thinking a lot about painting lately. What?? Shocker! But I have a dear friend, someone who I look up to for lots and lots of reasons but one reason is that she is a very accomplished and talented artist, and lives an artist's...
Wish these were on the menu for tonight....
It must be because it's spring. My head is bursting with colours and ideas. That's often the case. It's so distracting! But usually I walk around with those colours and ideas circling in my head and waiting their chance to get out. Add spring into the mix...
Yay! A day to paint!And with spring (perhaps even summer, if I wish real hard?) showing itself I'm taking a swing into flowers. These are chives.This is an echinacea flower that I painted huge before, but this time it's much smaller.I really enjoyed playing with...
The other morning I sat down at my desk in a big funk, an off start to the day, my head running in circles, a bunch of things needing doing, and a jumble of ideas over what to do first. I pulled out my little...
Missing this water. I'll stick in the photo of the real thing at the end so you can see I'm not making that colour up.This isn't finished (as is my norm) but I made a few hours on the weekend and I'm hungry to get...
So I did manage to do some painting over the holidays, but it's mostly been a time of trying new things and hoping that although it might be not quite right right now -- chuckle -- it might lead to good things in the future! Right?And of course, being...