Flurries and fantasticals

Flurries and fantasticals

Its Wednesday and so far I haven’t been able to do what I planned for Monday. This is Monday of this week, not next. But in the meantime I have been as usual busy with half a dozen other things……. the art board that I thought I’d finished last week and signed in an exciteable […]

Hunters moon

Hunters moon

You know what, I’ve found out something that I really lurve doing, and that’s painting B I G !! The biggest painting I’ve done up until this week was 31 x 24 inches as a commission for someone, well double commission actually, there were two paintings that size that I did for a client some years […]

Big and bold

Big and bold

Well the last thing I felt like doing at 9.30 this morning was painting a 8 x 4 feet board since I had a rotten nights sleep due to starting a cold yesterday, and waking up every half hour during the sleeping hours feeling  thirsty and hot. But today was the day the projectionist was coming and although I didn’t […]

Wipeout

Wipeout

The message came through that my help was needed, the time, and place stated and I responded that I would be there as requested. As I parked my car  this morning and walked towards my destination I idly looked at the man walking ahead of me, and smiled. As I drew up next to him I […]

Zinging up the colours

Zinging up the colours

Saturdays workshop was one of unexpected contrasts. The tutor  is a very talented woman artist who paints very loosely which in every case that I’ve experienced means very little drawing, or at least it’ s not precise drawing. But her workshop was actually the very opposite as she taught us how to be more specific in […]

Care in the community

Care in the community

I had visitors over the weekend, my fellas son and his newish girlfriend stayed overnight and arrived bearing a fabulous bouquet of exotic flowers and a delicious bottle of Sauvignon. Lovely to see them again and welcome her to my house as she’s not been before, as we only met her at Christmastime. Its quite obvious to people when […]