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More Stones Than You Can Throw A Stick At!

Husb and I are away for a few days visiting on the East Coast but we called in to Avebury on the way to see the ancient standing stones. We have been meaning to go for years and finally made it. It was a revelation! We’re used to tramping wild places in Wales and seeingContinue reading “More Stones Than You Can Throw A Stick At!”

The Alma-Tadema Ladies. Part 1 – The Two Wives, Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin de Boisgirard and Laura Epps.

A female artist I had never heard of, wonderful painting, Laura Alma-Tadema Source: The Alma-Tadema Ladies. Part 1 – The Two Wives, Marie-Pauline Gressin-Dumoulin de Boisgirard and Laura Epps.

Anyone up for a challenge?

A forty day drawing challenge issued by Green Olive arts I Morocco http://greenolivearts.com/40-day-drawing-challenge/

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST – KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Kollwitz in the UK – brilliant. In Birmingham through to November at The Ikon Gallery … Source: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST – KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Why bother Protesting?

Some great documentary drawing on the streets from Patricia McKenna-Jones Source: Why bother Protesting?

Cosmic Playtime

I visited a friend yesterday and took a digital photo of the fishpond with my shadow. Then I downloaded it into my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app and had a bit of a play. It looks like a fishy cosmos floating around in my outline.

Gertrud Arndt: Photo Pioneer of Female ‘Self-Disguise’

http://wp.me/p3x4lI-1Jw  The Bauhaus. Not so radical when it came to women students. Interesting read, I hadn’t heard of this artist before.

As Dark As It Gets

This started as a very pale watercolour landscape that I uploaded onto my Samsung Galaxy Note tablet into a free Markers app. I’ve been making it darker and darker with cross-hatching and scribbles but I think this is about as dark as I can go with it. The slides show the process from the originalContinue reading “As Dark As It Gets”

A Portable, Pop-up Revolution

This is a fascinating read and a beautiful collage Source: A Portable, Pop-up Revolution

Wishy Washy

I’ve been having a go at watercolours recently, since I won a really nice St. Cuthbert’s Mill Saunders Waterford glued watercolour block in a Facebook competition. I’m not really into painting but this is lovely paper and there’s a lot of it and, frankly, waste not, want not, as my Nana used to say. HusbContinue reading “Wishy Washy”