Scarlet Love. As winter is nearing its end I’m discovering a new love for scarlet red. I’m painting and photographing all things in warm scarlets and fiery reds more and more as the weeks progress. I am taking advantage of my “scarlet love” while it lasts. Things will change in a few weeks. Temperatures will […]
Take a walk with me! Walk the watercolour pathway for just a moment………. As some of you have read before, I do tend to go for a lot of nature walks! I love the feeling of being outside, with all that lovely space! No four walls to close in on me. As I walk along, […]
Freedom in Skies… watercolours wet into wet. Creates magical movement, softness and flow.
What type are you – soft edged or hard edged? I love art images and paintings with soft blurred edges ….. I wondered why. What type are you most drawn to? Wandering through the galleries I instinctively am drawn into some artworks, but seem blocked from others. I wondered why. For a while I was […]
Ethereal. Let me be completely honest! It it is not exactly what I was aiming for this morning as I took the photographs. It began as I was ………… Rereading my book Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee. The book opened to Charles Conder’s Moonlight at Mustafa 1892 oil painting in which I felt the magic […]
Bars with some curves. Shadowy figures with hands gripping rails, lend intrigue to the monochromatic image with its flat planes and simple shapes. With limited tones, the need for more dramatic shapes and textures to tell a story and create some type of interest has intensified. The horizontal lines, paired with diagonals help to […]
Photo taken late afternoon with Canon 600d, Canon 5omm f1.8 ISO 200 1/640 (f3.5 chosen for shallow depth of field and soft blurred background) This post is perhaps a wee bit on the short side and a bit ….. “shallow” after my last two lengthy and information packed […]
Artists Eugene Delacroix, Jean Leon Gerome and Paul Klee fill the pages – waiting to inspire me with magic woven with their hands, brushes, colours, paints and imaginations. A cherished book, “Orientalism – Delacroix to Klee” tops my favourites list, with every page filled with a spectacular art image. Mesmerising! Orientalism – Delacroix to Klee […]
Yet another walk with more treasures! These 3 trees have such lovely colours and patterns, that after I went right past them I felt I needed to go back to have a second look. Then the camera came out…… I loved how the golden green lichen encompassed the orange-sienna fungus creating a beautiful accent in […]
Our family grew up in Washington state, the Evergreen state, home of Mt. Rainier. Prior posts, I may have mentioned a few times something about the ever-present grey skies and drizzle. I left out The Mountain. Probably due to said clouds obscured it so often! Mt. Rainier is surrounded by national and state forests […]