Christmas Time

 

So it’s Christmas already.  I think I am so glad to have made it through the year okay health wise.  I have more confidence that I am able to get through difficult times - with help of course.  I’m actually looking forward to Christmas Day this year.  I really enjoy cooking for my family when I’m up to it so that is the focus for me.  I look forward to the new year and making new art.  I hope you have happy holidays, bye for now😊

Summer Floral On Canvas

‘The Fluid Summer Blooms’

Acrylic, Pastel and Acrylograph Pens On Polyflax Canvas

30 x 24 Inches

Hello and Happy New Year, at least I hope it will be a good or better year for all of you😊.  We have had such hot weather this week, too hot to be outside but it was okay.  I haven’t taken my Christmas tree down yet because I just love the sparkling lights and that festive feeling that seems to be gone the day after Christmas. 

So I posted this painting last year because I thought it was finished but I would stare at it on my easel everyday and I knew it wasn’t right but I just had to wait for the solution to come and it did last week.  I added more to the outside with the acrylic pens and I am happy with it now.  So now onto the next one which I am looking forward to.  

Goodbye till next time😊 

Merry Christmas

I made thes artworks for family and friends and they were made using Watercolour/Gouache on Khadi paper.  They are actually cards that came with envelopes which was great.  I really like working on this paper. 

I hope that wherever you are that you have a safe and happy Christmas even though the circumstances in the world at the moment aren’t great.  I also hope the coming year is much better for all of you.  Goodbye for now ☺️

Early Christmas Pressies

Hi there ;)  As well as doing Christmas shopping for both big and little people, I got some things for myself.  I bought 'Show Your Work' by Austin Kleon as I find the idea of promoting my art kind of icky and needed some help there.  I've read a few pages and it sounds just what I needed so far.  I bought 'Infinity Net' which I am already about half way through and really enjoying.  I've always been intrigued with Yayoi Kusama and always thought, 'what's with all the dots?'.  Now I know a whole lot more.  I bought Eva Hesse: Datebooks 1964/65 which is a creation of two small datebooks in her own handwriting as well as a printed book of her datebooks.  It wasn't what I expected but beautiful all the same.  After I discovered Eva Hesse I fell in love with Minimalism and went through a whole Eva Hesse phase with my art but it just didn't satisfy me as much as doing more figurative work so I shelved those ideas.  Then I couldn't go past a new Moleskine sketchbook as I really love the paper(and the covers).