Red peppers in aquarelle
I have been struggling with a fatigue for a few days…it may well be the change of seasons? Just the thought of going out sketching already tires me..so I have been mostly in front of my table, fiddling...
View ArticleAutumn acorns and walnuts…in aquarelle
Autumn is the time I take long walks in the forest/woods and gather mushrooms, and chestnuts, walnut, leaves and everything else that take my fancy. Back in the atelier it gets spread out on every...
View ArticleSketching those high heel Mary Janes.
“When I was young, I had beautiful shoes. High heels, stilettos, platforms, ballerinas, even vintage shoes my mother wore in the 40’s. But that was then. Now my favorite shoes are loafers. With...
View ArticleCafé sketches
For figurative oil paintings, I use my people sketches for references. Sitting in a café, trying to hide behind a coffee and sketching with subtlety, is always difficult for me. I always feel like...
View ArticleNature’s reds in November
The reds in nature are now at their peak and are quickly fading away as the leaves start to fall. As much as the reds and nature are/were inspiring, I couldn’t succeed in really “getting into it”. the...
View ArticleNovember yellows
There are colours to wear and colours for the home and colours to just admire. I don’t wear yellow and I don’t decorate my home with yellow, but I love yellow in nature, especially all the autumn...
View ArticleInto some food sketching
The old year and all its festive eating are behind us and the new year awaits us with our resolutions and new plans and dreams As happens every year, I am slow off the mark and January is a month in...
View ArticleSketching Tokala, the cat.
It’s been a while since I’ve done sketches of my cats. high time to do it again. Tokala was chosen as the model, because she has a lot of finicky tricks when grooming herself. A good thing she isn’t a...
View ArticleSketching Hyacinths.
I’ve mentioned how slow I am in January. I fiddle everywhere without getting anything done. With aw eek of January left, I decided to give myself a project for this week. I always work better towards a...
View ArticleStill doing bulb sketches.
The potted bulbs all have some flowers and today the little Iris reticulata had its turn. Some quick line work in inks and blotches of watercolor was all that I was in the mood for. ..Iris reticulata...
View ArticleCream tulip sketches.
I still have 2 days left to capture some bulbs. Not that it means we are in spring. On the contrary, with snow forecasts for this weekend en cold to the bone weather and the fire burning high in the...
View ArticlePomegranates in oil.
My art project for February is oil paintings. I find February the most difficult month of the year. It is usually very cold, rainy and grey, and the worst of all, windy. So it turns put to be the month...
View ArticleAn orange, a branch of dates and a fennel bulb in oil.
Our weather has suddenly changed from grey and rainy days into explosions of sunshine. Of course it makes me want to go into the fields for plein air painting. But I am restraining myself and keeping...
View ArticleA turnip, two spring onions and five gooseberries in oil.
These little studies !i do for February are really testing me. Sometimes I finish a canvas, stand back, look at it and it horrifies me! I then put it way back in the darkand when I come back to it a...
View ArticleA tomato, half an orange and a bunch of garlic in oil.
I only realized this morning that February has almost had it. I am still going strong with my little food studies and by now it has become a habit to do a little food study or even 2 a day. It is all...
View ArticleSketching a pansy and boxwood in the garden.
While waiting for a delivery…and everybody knows how that can turn into a long wait…I sat beside the pansies. I couldn’t help myself. The urge for capturing in a sketchbook was too strong for me. I...
View ArticleA sketch in centre ville in Beaulieu.
The weather is so fantastic lately…if only I could be that fantastic… ..Centre ville à Beaulieu…place Marbot.. Pilot Prera pen and aquarelle in Daler rowney artis’s sketchbook,14.9X21 cm Until next...
View ArticleEDM art 3: – Curtains.
Urgh, curtains. Those lovely, but awful things we hang in our homes to dress our windows. Beautiful to look at, awful to maintain. They gather dust, their hooks and ties break, they get stuck after...
View ArticleEDM-art 4: Spice bottles.
I struggled with this theme today. Not because I don’t like spices, au contraire, it is a delicious theme and I love it. But the ideas didn’t show up today.I couldn’t fix my pen on a cool composition...
View ArticleEDM art 5: A hot woodburning stove.
Few things are as comforting and warming as an old woodburning stove, or coalstove as we used to call it. during the day it gets stacked with wood and at night with coals which can simmer all night...
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