I decided to paint a new moth lady, this time featuring a Cinnabar moth.
Category: Nature
New art journal page – Lady Hawkmoth
I decided to paint a new art journal page with an Elephant Hawk-moth and lady, it’s sort of supposed to describe how nature is both in us and around us.. :)
Elephant Hawkmoth painting
I decided to paint an Elephant Hawkmoth for use in another painting as a collage element.
New art journal page – trust
I started this art journal page as I wanted to paint a bird and darker skinned lady, however as the picture emerged I realised it was about trust. The bird having enough trust in the lady to land on her, and the lady allowing the bird’s sharp beak to be so close to her eyes….
Wading bird painting
I made a picture of a wader bird inspired by yesterday’s visit
RSPB Rainham May 2014
I went on the Sunday Stroll at RSPB Rainham yesterday. I last went in the winter of 2012 so was very excited to see what was there during springtime :) It was a fantastic day, the sun shone, the birds sang and our guides were very good, we learnt lots about the folklore surrounding plants…
Earth Hour 2014
I observed Earth Hour on sunday, switched off all the lights in my house and drew a Pulmonaria leaf by candle light. I think I’ve always been an environmentalist, as a child I spent much of my time reading nature encyclopaedias and going on city nature trails. I also studied environmental biology at university. I…
Saturday morning 29.3.2014
On Saturday I spent time playing with watercolour paints in purples and greens, first painting some mandala type patterns These patterns came from a recently bought mandala colouring book, I scanned in the images then edited them in Photoshop using the magic eraser tool to remove the slightly grey background, I then reduced the opacity…
The Northern Lights seen in the UK
Last night the Aurora Borealis gave a spectacular display over the UK due to solar winds from a coronal mass ejection reaching the UK. Unfortunately I was tucked up in bed sound a sleep whilst it happened but here is a lovely picture from the BBC Website. Nature is beautiful..
Watercolour leaves
I spent a windy and rainy London day snug in my ‘woman cave’ painting watercolour leaves The colours used were Permanent Rose, Rose Madder Hue and Purple Lake
Phloem 