Gorgeous combination of colours – Indigo and Cobalt Teal blue. Loving the oasis feeling of cobalt teal! Intense, Indigo creates a perfect contrast and brings out the shimmering radiance of the cobalt teal. And it’s all with a brayer. The medium I chose to work in was acrylics. Again, keeping it simple with […]
Abstract painting fast and loose! I was able to create this free, colourful Abstract Ocean painting without a brush in just minutes! Here’s how. Materials For Acrylic Painting: Palette knife, canvas with a coat of orange already on it and 4 colours. Limiting my palette to white, buff titanium, turquoise and prussian helps maintain […]
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 […]
I fished out the netting from my oranges this week with the plan of recycling. I thought I’d reuse my net for a lovely textural pattern. But I wasn’t sure what or precisely how. .. Yet. I needed to do a bit of research. Recycle Household Items First I did my recycling. My oranges came […]
Its a very early Sunday morning, and I’m feeling like going for a little holiday as I drink my predawn coffee. A peaceful, relaxing, tranquil place. Cobalt Teal Blue: a perfect holiday colour! I’ll scout my photos… can I find my morning holiday? Esperance glittering waters. An image that soothes, invites and delights. Definitely has […]
Been Too Busy? Me too! So I wandered out to the pool to sit down for 5 minutes to drink my morning coffee in peace. Warning: this post may offend…. if you are a ‘busy’ person! I have no idea why I believe Value is tied up in being “Busy.” Or why others […]
What’s a gelli-print!? It’s a super soft, print making ‘plate’ that has quite a bit of flexibility. Yes, you can buy premade “Gelli Plates.” I chose not, today. I wanted to make a DIY! To create it from things in my kitchen. “Wow, what fun! Creative, imaginative. Liberating.” And, “I feel like a kid […]
“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” Dale Carnegie I do confess, I’m probably more focused on the future, than the present a lot of the time. Its just the way I am, I like to plan to […]
What’s in the Kitchen?! It turns out, there’s a lot of products to paint and create with in my pantry. Amazingly, I thought of over 100 different media and tools to choose from in little under 5 minutes! Of course, this was once I put the whole archival issue aside and just focused on […]
Spiders and snakes, oh my! Deep alizarin crimson spikes drew my eyes to the tiny carousel spider orchid at my feet. The bloom was less than an inch in width, but its stunning and wild beauty more than made up for its diminutive size. Carousel Spider Orchid “Caledonia Arenicola” is a vibrant and […]