Discipline can be a hard task master. You know how it is. When you get first get something new, you feel the overwhelming desire to spend all your time with it! But, I’ve put aside my cleaned repaired camera, with its shiny brand new prime lens, for …today. I’m feeling a bit desperate. […]
What wondrous things a palette knife can do! Soft diffusions of colours and tones and heaped up delicious globs of paint, I think I’m a bit obsessed with my PK 1008 palette knife. But I’m sure you can see why its so easy to get lost in all the delightful patterns, textures and colours that’s […]
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 […]
Happy Mother’s Day! Thank You to all the Mothers who devote their hearts, souls, lives ensuring their children are loved and know it! When your children are little, they may not tell you but your love means more than anything to them. Thank you. Mother’s Day is a celebration, a remembrance, a memorial. Mother’s Day […]
I had lots of Good intentions today, but I admit I was led astray… or rather down the garden path. Its my day off, I had a large ‘to do’ list with going to the shops first on my agenda. However – I stopped and grabbed my camera off the kitchen bench as I was […]
“Foulweather Bluff,” Kitsap County painting was inspired by a simple morning walk along the shoreline with my dog Laura when we lived in the Pacific Northwest. We lived on a small hillside overlooking Admiralty Inlet and the Olympic Mountains with the beach a mere half mile away. I’d taken several photos which I’d tucked away […]
The lovely Gordonia Axillaris is an evergreen tree with a funny nickname “fried egg” plant! When its blossoms fall, they drop around the tree face up leaving the golden orange yellow centre popping out in the middle of the frilly white petals. Looking like dozens of fried eggs. The Gordonia belongs to the Theaceae ‘tea […]
Sometimes we wonder where to find inspiration, where to find beauty, where to find our muse in life. The daily tasks, unexpected emergencies, the routine daily grind seem to take their toll and leave us just a bit tired and jaded. I found my breath of inspiration early this morning, drinking my hot coffee watching […]
A simple, yet effective flower study using a new triad of colours in a fun combination. Quinacridone Sienna PO49, Prussian blue Pb27 and Raw Umber PBr7 created all these yellow golds, oranges and the blue greens. I used a bare minimum of brushstrokes help to create a more compelling and clean image. One stroke […]