Watercolours wild, fast and loose. Yes, watercolours are out again! Fast paced, ‘timed’ challenges were quite exciting. With wonderful colourful hints of light and shadow, 20 minute timed exercises provide a feeling of spontaneity and immediacy. This painting was timed 20 minutes, so there would be no fiddling. The paper was a non watercolour paper, without […]
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. […]
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 […]
“Nobody sees a flower – really- it is so small it takes time – We haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” Georgia O’Keefe Another Georgia O’Keefe quote I like is, “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, its […]
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 […]
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 […]
My artist’s eye is quick to see what my friends and family often miss. I imagine you can relate! The artist’s eye never slumbers, never pauses. Throughout the day, all day long … its constantly searching…. for textures, colours, shapes, lines, patterns and tones. Maybe that explains why some are just a wee bit tired […]
Henry Matisse has many great quotes, but two especially, resonate within me: “Would it not be best to leave room to mystery?” and “I do not literally paint that table but the emotion it produces upon me.” The spirit in which I paint integrates both of these concepts. Matisse painted […]
When the crow calls, what does it mean? I asked myself on my last bush walking adventure through the park and through the swamp. Did I know if it was really a crow, or is it a raven? Inquiring minds want to know so I’d better find out! After a morning of research on crow […]
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 […]