I’ve been trying to capture my morning walks on Instagram. It adds another dimension to walking to work every day and allows me to capture the details of what I see and keep a record of them. So I’m going to start posting them on my blog too.
New Painting – Lady and insects
Hi all, I’ve been arting away this weekend whilst the weather here, on the edge of London has been cold, windy and wet. I took the time to complete a painting that had been sitting in a ‘prepped’ state for months. I wanted to practice drawing insects using a lot of line work, I’ve realised…
New mixed media dream catcher painting – Life Book
I thoroughly enjoyed making this dream catcher from a life book lesson taught by Rachael Rice. The background was an old painting (I didn’t like) which I firstly covered with a neutral coloured ‘Fresco Finish’ acrylic paint applied with a brayer. When this was dry I added blobs of my new fave Golden fluid acrylic…
New whimsical lettering painting – Life Book 2015
Hi, here is a new watercolour painting made for a Life Book class by the lovely Joanna Sharpe. It’s been a long time since I’ve used my watercolours, I love their vibrant luminous colours. Who was it that said ‘watercolour painting is like painting with tears’?… And here are some feathers, painted on a scrap…
London walks and a bit of a ramble
Instagram photos from my London walks. I’ve been on a health kick recently, and started a health and wellbeing regime :) including walking for at least an hour per day and trying to eat 5-a-day (fruit and veg) every day. I’ve been plotting my progress on the fleetly and 5 A Day apps. I’ve really…
New Hawk Moth canvas painting
I finally finished my Hawk Moth painting.
New Seeds of Love Painting – Life Book
New painting made for Life Book 2015.. Seeds of Love
A recent video edit
I recently created this video edit to showcase a collection of 1960’s ‘Roving Reports’ filmed by ITN, it was part of a digitisation project that is currently underway at this well known news broadcaster’s archive department.
Whimsical Ballerina painting
This was a life book lesson that I adapted, the apartment block is a painted paper cut. My lady is taking her pet bird ‘Fredi’ shopping for a new handbag. :)
New Life book 2015 painting – Whimsical Beacon of light
I’ve made a start on Life book 2015 with this delightful lesson by Tamara Laporte, A beacon of light! We also had to set our word for the year.. on this warm up page. I’ve been slowly refining my website gallery here and thinking about making some more hand-made books and fabric projects. The lovely…
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