And finally …. for now at least….
And of course, you must be asking…… how are the cats?!!
Well here they are! They’ve grown into lovely animals – no longer climbing curtains and creating havoc! And now the builders have gone, they’re in a lot more. Tonto is still a scaredy cat, but much better than he was, and he has a fascination for wires – just looking at them, sometimes leaping over them – very odd puss and such an umpa lumpa! Yoyo is quite normal, still very small, but very affectionate and quite unlike her brother, she is fearless! Here’s some updated pics of the two of them…..
And this one…
Another commission, which was done as a gift for an 8 year old little girl. Her brief was owls and roses! Again this is in acrylic with some collage. The bigger leaves on the tree are the Honesty flower seed heads, and again I have used the light moulding paste pushed through a flower stencil at the bottom of the picture. Grass stems are glued at the base of the tree. Anything goes with this kind of painting….. I must do more of it!
A couple of commissions:
This first was for a young couple just starting up in their first home together, so it’s called ‘New Beginnings’. I had a brief which included flowers, and anything relevant to  – well – new beginnings! This is one of my collages with acrylic paint, lots of stamping and stencilling. I’ve used light moulding paste pushed through a rose stencil for the roses at the bottom of the painting. And the black circular-like blobs on the right are dried acrylic paint, over painted with black.
Forever Blowing Bubbles
Blowing In The Wind
I have to admit, with this one, which is watercolours and markers, including the wonderfully vibrant, opaque ‘Posca’ pens which will cover over anything and everything, I did use photoshop (yes been getting my head round that too these last few months!), to actually remove 2 clouds that were in the sky. And also to get rid of a join in the paper where I actually added a new sheet partly underneath to redo part of the painting. Clever stuff the old photoshop, tho I only know a teeny little bit about it!
Her Moment…. another watercolour with added marker pens to embellish
Other stuff…..Â
Getting into the swing with watercolours….
At least, I’ve been having a go, and I’m still developing my style with these. As you can probably tell, I don’t do an awful lot of ‘realistic’ painting. Mine is a little off the wall, whatever it is I’m doing and in whatever medium. It’s Marmite… you either like it or you don’t. There’s not really a middle ground with it. Same with my watercolours; I’m only putting a fine film of watery colour on parts of the painting, rather than ‘colouring it in’. I start with a pencil / graphite sketch, with a lot of blending and the use of my battery operated rubber….(how cool is that?! – shame I didn’t realise for a couple of weeks it was battery operated! I happened to read about them, looked on (good old) Amazon, and thought – I’ve got one of those…!). Here’s some of my sketch water colours…
