I finished the hat for Elisabeth (made out of that yummy llama/bamboo yarn I mentioned a post or two back) last night, and this morning convinced Amelia to model it out on the back deck in the fall sunshine. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, and if I can scam obtain some more [...]
Following the Masters has a very challenging challenge right now — “The Art of the Self Portrait”. It wasn’t so much the portrait itself that was the challenge for me, but calling it “finished” was hugely difficult. One more dab here, a little value change there, a bit of different blue alongside that yellow, and [...]
Yet another internet challenge painting, this time for the Wet Canvas landscape forum, which Karen the blogless (no blog, no web site, what’s wrong with that woman?) pointed me at. Every month several photos are posted, and people choose one (or several, in some cases) to paint. The one I used as my reference is [...]
My friend Elisabeth raises llamas and alpacas and has their fibre processed into yummy knitting yarns. She invited me out to play with a new llama/bamboo blend — how could I say no? I’ve been trying out some bamboo/sheep yarns for socks and shawls and thought that an alpaca or llama blend would be a [...]
This is a painting of how the early morning light comes into my kitchen and falls on the wall behind one of the counters — at least, that’s how the painting started. Or, that’s one of the ways it started. It really started because I wanted to do something with a lot of texture, so [...]
In the last little while I have been gifted with food by two of my friends. Karen gave me tomatoes and a cayenne pepper from her garden. Elisabeth gave me tomatillas from the farmer’s market where she sells her fibre, yarn, and marvellous handmade mittens, among other things. Inspiration struck, and this stew was the [...]
Put my fingers into the business end of a stick-blender while it was running, that is. Sigh. I am ever so grateful that the emergency room folks kept their comments to themselves and just patched me up and sent me on my way. Dressing comes off tomorrow, and stitches come out in a week. Except [...]
There are so many interesting painting challenges on the web these days! Over at Different Strokes From Different Folks the current challenge is cupcakes. The Virtual Paintout is touring Lisbon this month. Painting at About.com has “miniature paintings” as the September challenge. That last one is where I entered the autumn painting on the left. [...]
Another little one done while having my morning tea…. The weather today is (for a change) warm and sunny, so I felt inspired to convey warm sunniness in the painting. By this afternoon there are supposed to be showers and thunder again (we’ve been having lots of both lately), so perhaps I’ll do something stormy [...]
Over at The Virtual Paintout, Bill Guffey each month invites people to tour a different city via Google Street View and create art from something they see. Last month, it was Florence, Italy, and this month it is Barcelona, Spain. My painting is from a view of a golf course. I wanted to portray a [...]
