Seaside Scribbles and Rock Chick hair. Back to my sketchbooks of August 2013 and I seem to have spent a lot of time on Swansea beach, must have been a good summer. I had a long, shaggy, rock chick hairdo at the time. I really like my hair like that, but it’s a bit ofContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 32”
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Done At Last.
I’ve finished my painting of two siblings on the beach at night watching the bioluminescence. It’s been a long haul. I don’t often work from photographs and I don’t find it easy, I prefer to work from life, but this was a good exercise. I did a lot of the painting upside down – theContinue reading “Done At Last.”
Tiniest Tweaks….
I’ve almost finished this painting of two siblings on Swansea Beach in the dark last summer. We went to see the bioluminescence in the bay and sat around a driftwood fire for a while, watching the stars. It was lovely. I took some photos and the painting is from one of those – many ofContinue reading “Tiniest Tweaks….”
Emerging ….
I started this painting a while back, from a photograph of two grown-up siblings on the beach back in the summer with a driftwood fire. It’s taken lots of layers of paint, doing a bit of work and then returning to it, again and again, the siblings emerging more and more with each layer ofContinue reading “Emerging ….”
Painting Upside Down 3
Did a bit more work on this painting of siblings in my family today. I find that it’s so much easier to work from a photograph upside down, which is liberating because it ceases to be representational, everything becomes shapes, colours, tones and lines.
Scribbling In The Warm.
Husb and I went out for a walk yesterday afternoon, it was sparkling sunshine but also very cold so we called in at a new café in the old Observatory on the promenade, overlooking Swansea Beach. A lovely place in a gorgeous setting. And toasty warm. Of course, I had to have a scribble. IContinue reading “Scribbling In The Warm.”
Painting Upside Down 2
I started this painting a couple of months ago (here), working on top of a recycled canvas. I’m working upside down from a photo as I don’t see the subject clearly any more, just colours, shapes and lines, that I find easier to place accurately. It’s still pretty rough but I can see it startingContinue reading “Painting Upside Down 2”
Blowing The Cobwebs Away
The weather was glorious today, chilly but very sunny, so Husb and I went for a walk on the beach to start to work off the excesses of the last few days and blow the cobwebs away. Of course I had a scribble into my tiny little cloth covered Paper Blanks sketchbook and aContinue reading “Blowing The Cobwebs Away”
I Ate A Snail
Today I ate a snail for the first time. I won’t bother again. It tasted like earth in garlic butter with the texture of one of those rubbery sponges you put make-up on, if you wear make-up. Husb and I went to a posh French restaurant for his birthday meal. His birthday was in AugustContinue reading “I Ate A Snail”
A Sky Full Of Opals
Husb and I strolled along Swansea Beach this evening and I took some photos of the extraordinary sky – it looked like it was full of fire opals shimmering above us. The weather has been appalling throughout the so-called Summer, so maybe this is the harbinger of something better for the Autumn. “The sky atContinue reading “A Sky Full Of Opals”
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