Any way you slice it, Monday is starting off fabulous! This bright rainbow inspired cake I’ve photographed for a friend is irresistibly cheery…. Lovely way to begin the week! Happy Monday!
Jump in and have some fun! Why do you think kids are always smiling? Yes, they’re out there jumping in. While we’re milling about, cleaning up, tidying up, sorting things out. Kids Just Jump In. Just Jump In and have some fun!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Painting with acrylics is a fabulous way to just dig in and create the kind of landscape textural effects you see on a hillside. Bold Cobalt blue paired with golden glazes make the image stand out and shine. The first step was to gesso the canvas a couple times, then the third time was […]
Relaxing on a rainy day listening to Zen nature music, dabbling with my watercolour paints. Just what I needed. To have a little play, experimenting and creating many different types of trees in the process. Watercolour Painting: The Creation of Trees I’d played with watercolour paints blues and greens in the top image, with overlapping […]
Soft, nearly monochromatic colours combine with rich sandy textures and echo the loveliness of my seashore. It evokes the serenity I feel walking along the Western Australian beaches as the sun flares and sinks below the horizon. With the sun paling to a soft salmon peach I wanted to ensure my painting palette reflected the […]
Play. What a lovely word. Getting my paints out and enjoying the day, just me and my Colours! Cerulean, Indigo, Scarlet, shimmering Gold, Naples Yellow, Indanthrone, Ultramarine Blue.It sounded like Fun to me. Plus, it sure beat mopping the floors. No plot, no plan, no deadline, no rules. No ‘must get this done’ or I […]