Big Splash

Watercolour paper 300g

A4 size

Mixed Media

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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

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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"

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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.

Broken

Greeting card
Mixed Media

 

To illustrate the word 'broken' I searched around for pieces of pottery.  There is a place in the garden where all the broken pottery lives, apart from a few special bits kept in the house.

Tried to draw/paint them using only various pens and a little bit of water.

The stripey piece and the little brown piece are particularly special to me, found in the field where the 'Ark' is currently being built.

http://www.arkproject.org.uk/index.php



Aeonium

Mixed media



Langdon Prestige 100% Cotton

12x9 inches

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This beautiful Aeonium reminds me of fireworks and celebrations.



Serenade

Mixed media



Langdon Prestige 100% Cotton

12x9 inches

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This very nearly got thrown away.  I persevered, tried something new and ended up loving it. 

Funny how you have an idea in your head and it takes some time to get there.

 

Rose Cottage

Mixed Media

50 x 20 cm Hahnemuhle Paper

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This is the piece I have been working on.  Hope you like it.
Created especially for a very dear friend of all her favourites.

Goodbye Ely Wool Shop

Mixed Media

Moleskine watercolour pad

 

This painting is in my sketchbook of Ely Wool Shop on St Mary's Street.
Sadly Sandra is closing the shop tomorrow, very sad to see it go.

I sat in the shop drawing and painting this one freezing day in March, warmed up by Sandra's cheerfulness and a cup of tea.

Spring Forth

Hannemuhle Paper 20x50cm

Mixed Media

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Ely Art Exhibition

6 to 18 August - 11 am to 5 pm daily

Sun 19 August - 11 am to 3 pm

Hayward Theatre, The Gallery, Ely

Inspired by the walk we did as part of the National Garden Scheme.  We visited Rosewell House, Ely and the garden had a fabulous herbaceous border and a great view of Ely Cathedral.

Zooming in part 2

I wanted to re-create this piece on canvas.

Mixed media.

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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

Rug Design re-design

This rug design sketch, now re-designed into cards.

I loved the way these turned out.

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Ely Art Society Exhibition

Terracotta Warriors

Another evening, another sketch, now remade into cards :)

The "flower" design came from the box this terracotta warrior was bought in.

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Ely Art Society Exhibition

After Lowry

A modern take in a Lowry style, of sale shopping.

A bit of an experiment which probably would have gone in the bin at one time.  Glad I kept it!

 

 

Cards
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Ely Art Society Exhibition

Collage Cards



These cards were made at a group called "Paper, Patch and Sew"

My first try at collage since the course

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Ely Art Exhibition

6 to 18 August - 11 am to 5 pm daily

Sun 19 August - 11 am to 3 pm

Hayward Theatre, The Gallery, Ely

We be vikings!

Mixed media

34x19.5 cm

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A piece imprinted and then painted.

Just a bit of fun :)

Daisy sleeping beauty

Mixed Media

Size A2 "ish"

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Daisy often sleeps on the windowsill waiting for her master to come home.

Created with hand painted papers during my art course and collaged; extra painting to define.

Sketch outside

Mixed Media

It's Summer, my watercolour group goes outside and Tuesday I sketched with a stick.

Impossible to photograph, but you get the idea.

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.

Twiglets

Mixed Media

This Twiglet sketch was drawn with a twig, which I thought was highly appropriate.

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.