Calla Lily

Watercolour

19 x 28 cm

Bockingford 425g

For sale

Calla Lily inspired by photo taken by Clay Perry.
 
 I've been painting flowers since Saturday as part of a very large painting.
 Watercolour painted tonight at Ely Watercolour Workshop - subject was exotic flower. The background which looks black is a mixture of blue, purple, brown and red. All done with wet-in-wet technique.

Big Splash

Watercolour paper 300g

A4 size

Mixed Media

for sale

Here is the painting I completed at home.  The rocks have an orange seaweed on them and limpets, I loved the deep blue rock pools.  This big splash was extremely messy to do, so glad I did it outside.  The grass now has a nice sprinkling of white paint.

Seaweed and splash

Mixed Media

Watercolour paper 300g

A3

for sale

 

Mixed Media

Watercolour paper 300g
A4

for sale

 

I met with some artists from Ely Art Society yesterday to paint "splashes" with Valerie Orchard.  She showed us her sea paintings incorporating splashes, put out a large selection of photographs of sea, rocks, splashes, seaside and basically left us to it. 

 

I chose a couple for inspiration, a seaweed covered rock and a view of the coast.  The large painting was stuck onto a table because I didn't have a board big enough so I stood up to paint these.  It was nice to be able to paint in a loose and expressive way.  Putting on the splash was the hardest part, getting it to behave!  I did ask for advice here and there and we all created such different work.

 

Before I left, I started another one which is being completed at home.  I've already put on the splash and ended up with paint everywhere, it is so tempermental.  I'm not used to messy art!

Edward and Maria

 

Mixed Media

16" x 20"

Sold

 

I particularly enjoyed creating this painting in black/white of Edward and Maria, both school teachers posing for a photograph in 1977.  Their clothes created using paper I made last year during the Creative Drawing course.  The clouds from a photograph I took last Sunday when the sky was just right for the background - yes I did paint the sky blue, which I think works really well with the greys.