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posts might be a bit erratic until after Christmas - and then I have to get some serious painting done - my new years resolution!
so in the meantime, another snowflake. :>) Sherrie you have a lot to answer for! this is addictive
Interesting Blog. I am a painter/writer/student and I appreciate other artist's blogs from around the globe. My own blog is more of a family blog rather than a work blog.
Mwah ha ha ha! (Was that manical enough for you?) Just to add to your troubles, I have tagged you with the Arte y Pico Award! Details at http://brushandbaren.blogspot.com/2008/12/overdue-thanks-and-kudos.html
It'll give you something to do after the holidays. ;-)
I love these snowflakes. I can see how they become addictive. You can have a whole bunch of real ones here if you like. :)
I have a lot of serious painting to tackle and I'm dying for Christmas holidays - not because its Christmas, but because I get a week and a half to paint and draw!
Vivien Blackburn's work in the Urban/Rural show We've just hung a group show at the The Eye Project, Urban/Rural show. If you want to come and see it it's on for a month - well worth seeing, 11 lovely artists and some fabulous work. Those large canvasses are 40 inches square. There are rural landscapes, flowerscapes, intriguing textile work including a large knitted building, abstracts .... something for everyone. It's in the gallery below the cafe in the Adult Education Centre at the top of Wellington street, Leicester, opposite Fenwicks. Meet the Arttists day is Saturday 1st April 10-2. Come and have a chat with us?
This is a page of watercolour studies of pansies, not intended to be 'a painting', I did a while ago that I came across. It's a grey rainy day and the light isn't good to get on with the canvasses so I decided to try to pull it together as a composition. I used a bit more watercolour and coloured pencils and cropped it and added the soft blue green background to cool it down a little - the colours felt too hot. The deep dark pansies were really velvety and intense and maybe not the colour scheme I would have set out to use with the orange and pale yellows - but the background helps to knit them together. Bringing the soft mauves into the darker flowers also helped. I also took another look at a mixed media woodland that was unfinished and worked a little more on that. It has a little oil pastel in the early stages, watercolour and then coloured pencils.
Close up of tree bark, Marqueyssac, France. photo: Vivien Blackburn Another challenge Rather than another update on the seascapes I've decided to run another challenge in response to feedback from the trees post. Feedback from people said they got a lot out of the skies challenge and I'm sure you will out of this one :>) click the image on the left to link to the original post on trees and you can check all posts with the tag 'trees' here The challenge is to produce sketches of trees done from life. These can be: close ups, extreme close ups, whole tree, part of tree, distant views - whatever you want. Style: anything goes - photorealism to impressionism but with underlying observation Medium: your choice, anything goes :>) oil paints, acrylics, watercolours, mixed media, charcoal, graphite, coloured pencils, pen, oil pastels, pastels, pastel pencils ....... etc etc etc Timescale: we'll finish at the end of July and I'll post links to your blogs t
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It'll give you something to do after the holidays. ;-)
I have a lot of serious painting to tackle and I'm dying for Christmas holidays - not because its Christmas, but because I get a week and a half to paint and draw!
Ronell
Sherrie I'm off to check! and thank you :>)
Jeanette I'd just die with the winter weather you get! even with our milder winters I want to hibernate.
Painting :>) sounds good
Hi Ronell :>)