Floral Painting Update

Acrylic, Pastel and Acrylic Markers on Polyester Cotton Canvas

40 x 30 Inches

Hi there, I hope you are all having a good weekend.  It feels like summer is ending slowly here but that’s okay, I kind of look forward to shorter days.  I just wanted to post an update of my floral painting which I have been working on.  I am happy with how it is turning out but I worry about the amount of saturated colour I have used.  It wasn’t really my intention to make such a colourful painting but it has just turned out this way.  I think it is okay.  I don’t work with much of a plan.  The painting will be what she wants to be😊,  I don’t try to control what comes out too much.  I will be adding details with Acrylograph pens next, which, I am really looking forward to because it’s fun.  For now I will let the painting sit and I will do something else because I have been looking at it too much and I have lost perspective.  

Well I look forward to posting hopefully, a finished painting next time.

Look after yourselves and bye for now.

One Day At A Time

Girl In Green Dress

Watercolour/Gouache/Graphite Pencil in A5 Moleskine Journal

This week has felt so long when usually time feels so short.  I hope all those in isolation are going okay.  We are not isolated but have been asked to keep distance from others so I stay home a lot.  I’m trying not to watch the news today because yesterday it was too much and I wasn’t as sad for myself but for others and what they are going through.  It’s such a hard situation to get used to.  

I worked on this painting this week.  I feel like there are all these people inside me wanting to get out onto the paper and it’s like I have to get out the way and let them come through - I think Jackson Pollock said something like that and it is really true(not comparing myself to Jackson Pollock or anything:)).  It’s like the painting is already there and I just hope I am good enough to make it real on the paper.  I know I am trying to express something through these girls, I just don’t know what.  I think a state of being that I find myself in regularly and that I can’t define or describe adequately in words.   Goodbye till next time.

Solitary Life

Watercolour/Gouache/Graphite Pencil in A5 Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook

So I am playing around with these girl paintings still and I have decided to add graphite Pencil illustrations to the painting.  I think I am getting somewhere.  The Coronavirus has become a really big deal everywhere as everyone knows and everything seems so uncertain and unstable.  I like the solitary life and my own company so isolation doesn’t really bother me but I mostly worry about some other people and how they will cope.  I think we can only take a day at a time really and I don’t know what else to say about it but I hope everyone can stay safe and not become too stressed out by this situation.  I will continue to make art and post it and try to be more regular about it.  I feel lucky I can somehow distract myself when I need to.

Cold Snap

It's pretty cold here at the moment but I've been getting rugged up in a coat and beanie to go walking as I need to walk and it's great walking weather, even if I get a little wet.  It's so nice to go and watch the ocean in weather like this but I haven't been able to walk on the beach as the tide is too high.  Coming down here always inspires me, it's really beautiful.  It was great to catch this sunset too.

Love

'She Could See The Whole Universe In His Eyes'

Polychromos Pencil on A4 Moleskine

For those who love :)