My favorite building

A4 ish

cardboard from cereal packet

Watercolour

For Sale

 

This week's EWW subject was to paint our favourite building.  I have never been to La Sagrada Familia but would love to, it is on my list of favourite buildings to see one day.  Being in an experimental mood I did a few things with this painting that I have never done before.  1. add some 'hidden' raised shapes. 2. use a different support instead of watercolour paper.  Having seen some famous artists who have their experiments on cardboard in museums, I thought why not? 

I have other experimental plans up my sleeve.

Recycled Arty Cards

Cards

Sold

Anthea ripped up a painting at EWW one evening.  I asked her for the pieces and told her I'd make it into cards.  She happily gave them to me.  A little extra painting, detail and some collage and I'm very happy with the results.

Deadlines

I'm going to hold you all in suspense for a few days!  Something particularly lovely is being painted and I rather quite like it so far...

Feather and cotton bud with ink

 On another note the Creative Drawing course has started at long last and I have black stained fingers as a result of spending two and half hours messing about with ink, cocktail sticks, lollipop sticks, cotton wool bud sticks, pieces of cardboard, a feather, a straw and a piece of tin foil.

Cardboard and ink

 My friend Heather loved it and created some fabulous expressive "lines" with cardboard and black ink.  My favourite was the feather together with the cotton wool bud sticks.

Zooming in part 2

I wanted to re-create this piece on canvas.

Mixed media.

For Sale

For part of this, I dug out the oilbars and forgot that I needed turps to clean my hands.

Thankfully hubby was on hand with some thinners.

See this at Ely Art Society Exhibition

Rejoicing desert roses

Watercolour

A3 sized on cartridge paper

This was the other part of the stamp I made at art class.  To continue the rose theme, I chose

Isaiah 35 - specifically "the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice..."  24 roses on this piece.

A dozen roses?

Watercolour

A3 sized on cartridge paper

At the art course, we did printing, this was a random shape taken from one of my sketches on the first day; it reminded me of a rose.  So, I decided to print a random pattern and paint on top of it with watercolour the inside petals of a rose.

A dozen roses, or should it really be a bakers dozen?

Abstract still life

Mixed Media

Apologies for the bad angle, couldn't get a decent photo.
It was mounted on the wall in the studio of the art course.
Hand coloured paper created in one session.
Next session "draw" with scissors the parts of a still life that caught my interest.

Zooming in

 

Mixed media

I was encouraged to take a slice across part of the previous painting and this is what I did!

I love the texture, the energy and the freedom.  A far cry from my normal style.