Girl in a meadow

This is a large watercolour I have painted from Tamara Laporte's "Summer Girls" course on www.willowing.ning.com

A journal page....not done too much lately but have a big painting I have nearly finished.

Sanctum

My first really planned use of pastels for portrait. I feel quite pleased with this. It is a reflection of how I have been feeling for a while and I think I have used closed eyes to show that I have retreated into myself.

Several paintings to upload......

This was my starting place on a recent course with Tamara Laporte on Willowing. The course was called "Radical Wellness" and I used it to try and heal some deeply embedded issues.

The next step was creating a guardian with my inner child.



And I completed with an interpretation of what I had managed to heal.

All pages were mixed media.

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.