A fast dash to the local roses at the neighbours. Beautiful again. Too gorgeous to resist! These delicate ethereal roses just budding herald the new day and a new week. Enjoy these delightful beauties.
Delicate Rose
Layers of Petals
Tiny Pink Rose bud
“To me art is an Adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risk.” Mark Rothko Exactly. More playing with photography this morning, thinking about contrasts and tone, line, texture, no colour. Taking a risk. A Rothko quote coupled with a black and white photograph! […]
Prussian blue is a deep and mysterious blue paint that creates the most magnificent foliage greenery. I love its tonal ranges from a very dilute pale cool greeny blue to the full mass tone of near midnight blue black. Prussian Blue This blue paint was created by accident around 1706 by a […]
Autumn Aglow Landscape is a mixed media painting that I’ve used Prussian Blue to create the tree foliage. The painting was done in a loose, interpretative and impressionistic approach…no brushes! My reference sources were from my recent walks and taking quite a few photographs of the autumn leaves, water reflections in the late […]
Do you think colour can be too bright, too bold, too distracting? Sometimes it is! Bright glaring red, yellow, black and orange colours shout in nature “Stay away, I’m Dangerous!” Bright Colours can be too loud Generally, when painting I like to neutralise and subdue my ‘brights’ so they stop their shouting. I’d like a […]
Can you resist color’s lure!? Impossible! Gorgeous landscape in vibrant joyful hues delight my eye……
I like to give credit where credit is due. I’m proud of this beginner’s landscape painting. Rich and powerful. Bold! A Brilliant pop of blue pleases the eye. And amazingly, she did this on her own, not in class……. I wasn’t there hovering, helping. The Wilderness in Watercolor The painting communicates […]
