31_365 : cool blue!

This is a photo I took a couple of months back, locally, of a sudden and rather unseasonal snowfall. I love the blue cast to the hills.

30_365 : playing with film

I took a few rolls of film recently at a friend’s farm – this is one shot that I really like. It has some very clear colours and strong contrasts that appeal to me.
It’s another one I’ll be tempted to take into paint.

29_365 : upload problems last night

So trying again this morning. Very frustrating…

More monoprinting – love it 🙂

This time I used a leaf in the mix, then hand coloured with water soluble crayons. But the water to dissolved the crayon made the ink run a bit. Ah well, all a good learning experience!!

28_365 – make mine a monoprint thanks

Monoprinting is such fun. All you need is some paper, ink, roller, a piece of glass and a tool of some sort – a pen, brush handle, finger, whatever!

Roll out the paint, draw the design into it, spray the paper till it’s damp then lay on top of the glass. Burnish with your hand or the back of a spoon and then carefully peel off.

This particular image is almost identical to one I have done before – I’m not totally sure why, but there is something about it that satisfies me visually.

27_365 : rolling along

I have been painting with rollers off and on for a while now. This is a revamp of a roller painting I did a while back. I decided the colour contrast needed more ‘oomph’!! I think I like it better now…

26_365 : Oops!! Life happened…

Well, yesterday was day 26 of my 365 day challenge. I got into bed and thought “oops, I didn’t do any art or post any art”!!

What happened? Well, Mum has been in the Base Hospital (1.5 hours away) for almost a fortnight and getting better very slowly. All of a sudden yesterday they decided to discharge her. Luckily my sister was up there and did most of the running round. But by the time Mum got home at about 6pm, we fed her, settled her, re-did her medication trays, got her ready for bed etc – the days was gone, gone, gone.

So – no excuse, but a good reason. I’m pleased to have her home again, even though last night was a “up four times to her” night. I know why new mum’s are so accident-prone, disturbed sleep can be a terrible thing.

25_365 : My best girl

One last layout (like the Tui adverts say – yeah, right!!)

This is our beloved Bulldog Meg, who died of cancer recently.

24_365 : the fruits of…

I have been looking at the centre of cut fruit and vegetables, and thinking about the intricate patterns the seeds and so on make. This is a first attempt at replicating the idea of those patterns using pastels and Photoshop.

23_365 : flower power

Still working through the flower thing. This was a bright red acrylic in a former life…

22_365 : wonderful world of flowers

I started this with an acrylic painting of a flower, then adjusted the colours in Photoshop and finally turned it into an “enameled” version. I can see this printed as a blank greeting card perhaps!