Long ago....

"For in every adult there dwells the child who was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be."

Quote from "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly

Two really different paintings....I guess!

I am drifting at the moment....can't make my mind up what to work on hence the huge difference between these two. First is the largest "face" I have ever done so when I finished I thought it was quite bizarre, as it is life size. It is all acrylics. Still thinking about what I think about it....


Secondly I have gone back to a mixed media journalling page - water colours, acrylics, pastels, stencils and gold leaf. I cannot decide what to focus on at the moment.....:-(

Not so easy....

I've been working on this one from my head really, ie not looking at another painting for guidance. It was quite hard and I am not happy with the shading. In the end I added some pastels for shading on top of the acrylics but I had already sealed the painting so it was really hard to get the shading to show as I wanted it too. I need to re-define some of it but here it is so far.... Still....good experience, just keeping on learning! :-)

"Girl in a red scarf"

After a long lull in my painting I finally got back to trying out my portrait painting in acrylics again. I am afraid I cannot remember which artist I was looking at when I was inspired to paint this girl. Although I can see several errors and places I need to tidy up, I am pleased with her. I like her expression and I felt really pleased with the overall effect of her scarf, which I really thought I would not be able to do.

Just a painting I really like....

Isn't this a wonderful painting? It's called "Three girls" by Amrita Shergill. I really love it.

Have had a mega lull.....

Well....I haven't had any time at all over the last month to do my painting and it is leaving me feeling a bit bereft but life is life and that is that....so I shall not worry. I have too many "makey-things" on the go now for Christmas so I think my paintbrushes will have to stay in the cupboard for a while.... but that doesn't mean my blogspot will have to stay empty. I shall enjoy myself by posting some nice festive pictures and maybe some poems for the next few weeks. I think I will start with this one....

Isn't that lovely?

My first nude!

This is working from a beautiful painting by Wladyslaw Slewinski, a Polish artist who lived from 1854 to 1918. Another real challenge but such a brilliant way to learn how many different colours there are in what appears to the normal eye to be just one....pink!

Finished painting

Well she is finished. I loved painting this lady. I am learning so much from this course. (A Diary of Faces - Sharon Tomlinson) Always learning.... but that is what I love and I do feel like I am getting somewhere. :-)