Monday, May 29, 2017

Rainy Monday

Hi, good morning. I have finally finished my spring yard work. My little veggie garden is planted and my flower beds are cleaned and full of new stuff. This is the third year for my little yard and I now know which plants like it here.


Now I have time to paint again. I bought a new memory card and can take pics once again. Still haven't found the old one, maybe it got sucked up in the vacuum.

I have been taking a class at the college with Diane Godwin Sheridan on watercolour flowers, hoping that it will loosen me up. Have had lots of fun playing with wet on wet techniques, letting the paint do it's own thing on the wet paper. Dropping in colour where I want it.



Then some more. I may add some pen and ink to highlight certain areas. A tree showed up .

 Can you see the iris?

Monday, May 22, 2017

Lost Memory Card

Well I said I would post every Monday but have misplaced the memory card from my camera. Oh darn.

Have been taking a watercolour flowers class with Diane Godwin Sheridan at the college and wanted to post the work I have been doing in class. It is a much looser approach with bigger brushes and lots of fun.

Will post the pics as soon as the card is found. Thought I would just get another but they are a little pricey

Monday, May 15, 2017

A Little Artwork

Good morning, I am ready to post again, third week in a row, this must be a record.
Got a little freaked out by not starting all my spring work and made a list of things to do( 23 to be exact) this weekend. Again it rained and I could not get out there. I sure miss Terry and all the things he used to do for me.

Anyway tackled the worst job first this morning and because the sun felt so great on my whole body it didn't seem so bad. So first I cleaned the garage and washed away the winter gunk.


 The garage looks pretty good and the old squeegee came in handy. I had lots of time so I also washed the outside of my car, have been a little wary of putting it through a car wash because of the top. Looks pretty good.

I did work on a sailboat design last week. Peter took me to Hardy park last summer and took a lot of pictures for me of the sailboats racing from the yacht club on Tuesday nights here in Brockville. It was tons of fun to watch. I worked on them this winter but struggled a bit. After taking Andrea Mossop's class at the college on Unified Form I have been able to come up with a few great designs.
Here is the first of 6. Quite like the how they turned out and these two are off to a happy customer once I put them in cards.


Just loving this day, it is perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Sunday, May 7, 2017

More Small Paintings

Really love having fun with these funky flowers. I am now adding more work with pen and ink. They are all for sale at $10.00 each and I can mail them to you for another $1.60. Just mailed one off the other day.

It's so great to be here in Brockville, with the College so close. Will be starting another watercolour class next Thursday. This summer I have signed up for a session on setting up my own website, with a cart. Can't wait to make it live and do it myself.

Here are some card pics:









Monday, May 1, 2017

Small Paintings

Daisy

 Good morning, well I am posting again. Where does the time go? It has been super busy setting up my art business once again as well as committing time to painting, I have learned a lot and I have lots to share. So here comes PART ONE

It is so much fun to play with small 4x6 in. paintings. Lots of variety of technique and subject matter can be put into these small numbered paintings, there will always be daisies and butterflies. For marketing purpose they are perfect. Placed in a generic card they are easily framed and makes a great gift.A bargain at $10.

Walking in the Rain
 
My subject matter changes as time goes by and playing with rubber cement and liquid watercolour produced a modern vibe.

Modern

Butterfly

In taking these picture the colour was not true, so I went on a mission to figure out how to get great , true colour for my artwork, but that is a story for another day.