A Silly take on last Saturday’s whirlwind trip. I’ve created an Abstract acrylic painting on canvas using the palette knife in fun swirls of yellow, greens, blues. A bit of silliness, never hurts! My interpretation and explanation for ‘Silly’ today, is simply that the yellow represents the lovely yellow shirt our granddaughter wore when […]
Time, Space, Nature, Zen. These strands that seemed to create a loosely woven design of lines, were like a waving flag of invitation to me. How could I pass this small micro world by? Filament Lines There is power, in the Line. These filament lines, floating on the surface of the pond are […]
Explosions of color surprised me….. I was just having a quick play testing some acrylics out with the palette knife. Thinking about mixing up and testing colors and textures that I might use for bark, forest, trees. All spurred by my recent trip down south to see The Ancient Empire, the Valley of the Giants […]
Two small impressionist watercolor landscape paintings. Both mounted onto the gorgeous, velvet surface of Stonehenge in black. But their formats and their use of edges are distinctive and unique from each other. Impressions of the Land Horizontal Format The Umber Fields with indigo feathered distant trees creates a calmer, more Contemplative scene. Its […]
The simplicity of watercolors beckons. one brush The Rekab 320s #2 performs this task, this technique with exquisite finesse. one color Burnt Sienna, PBr7 creates the brilliance, the tonal nuances, the clarity, the lack of mud that I delight in. one skewer The tip of a skewer to […]
Watercolor that has gone through a twister, shaken – definitely not stirred. So Many ideas from several of my recent posts, have been germinating away. They’ve gone through a Ninja blender and then I’ve integrated them into one design. Watercolor: Shake It Up The Underpinning The post, Watercolour Landscapes Blue and Orange laid the foundation image. […]
Soothing, refreshing and silky waters are in order for Silly Saturday. These beautiful tropical colors of cobalt teal, aztec gold and a lovely shallows green complement each other delightfully. I wish I were there! Well, I am there, in spirit. Today’s image really isn’t as silly as…. Yesterday’s images; especially that wild, eye popping […]
‘Something different’ for the Friday photos today. A morning play turning paintings into digital designs and photographs into line art drawings. Fun. Funky. Different. Funky Neon Digital Art This digital photo image was originally, a bright orange watercolor floral painting, seen in the post Inspiration – How It Starts. Processes […]
Impressionist Painting with sparkling colors dappling the mountainside, as if the gold, rubies and garnets were waiting….
Cobalt teal blue splashes onto the paper in my efforts for a cooler, refreshing ambience. The palette knife loaded with Acrylic paint slides on the wet paper in a brief fleeting kiss. Perfect for creating smooth applications of color in my abstract painting today. More palette knife posts are The Delightful Palette Knife and Watercolour […]