Happy Easter!
It seems like only yesterday I was wishing everyone a Happy New Year, anyway here’s wishing you all a Happy Easter feasting with family and friends ……..and lots of chocolate eggs!
October
Where do I start? once again I’ve been neglecting my poor old blog. I think June was busting out all over last time I wrote, and now here we are in October with the gardens all dried up and spent, but now at least we’re enjoying the autumn rains. A busy and hot summer has passed…
June is busting out all over!
Apologies to all who couldn’t access this post, I must have clicked on something I shouldn’t have, anyway I think I’ve repaired the damage so I’m republishing this post. The flowers are magnificent this year due to the perfect combination of rain and sunshine, our garden always looks it’s best at this time of year.…
June is busting out all over!
Apologies to all who couldn’t access this post, I must have clicked on something I shouldn’t have, anyway I think I’ve repaired the damage so I’m republishing this post. The flowers are magnificent this year due to the perfect combination of rain and sunshine, our garden always looks it’s best at this time of year.…
It’s February already!
It doesn’t seem possible that Christmas has been and gone and January as well! Here in our area of France they tend to leave Christmas decorations up in January, so for the first time since we’ve been here I left our Christmas decorations up until the Burns Night 25th January as we celebrate that as…
Merry Christmas to all!
My Christmas card to you to print out, fold horizontally then fold again Here’s wishing you all safe and healthy for year 2023, and wishing for Peace, Harmony and Truth to overcome the evils in this world. Have a wonderful Christmas!
Last of the Inktober Challenges
Here are my final eleven daily sketches in response to the prompts provided by whoever runs Inktober. They must be American because there were a couple of words I didn’t understand like bluff where we would use cliff, and booger where we would say bogey.
October challenges 2
Continuing on from the last post: some more daily sketches from last month’s Inktober challenge 2022, Days 9 – 20 inclusive. All drawn on the iPad. I’ll post the remaining drawings in a couple of days time, I don’t want to saturate everyone!
October challenges
I did the Inktober challenge again this year, a drawing every day inspired by a daily word prompt. I was a few days into October when I started but I managed to do a fresh drawing every day for 31 days. I posted them daily on Instagram, but I thought it high time to write…
A few sketches and suchlike
Time flies by at such a rate these days, my last post was in April when we were still running the wood burner central heating and here we are in June, suffering “la Canicule”. I’ve been trying to keep up with the Monday morning drawing sessions, but I’ve missed a few recent ones as something…
April Fool’s day, poisson d’avril.
Happy Poisson d’avril! After sketching this on the iPad ( with the inevitable inclusion of Gypsy, (and I don’t know why they’re dancing the syrtaki Greek dance, I should have portrayed them dancing the Ukrainian hopak…. that’s for next year’s! ) Anyway, I became curious as to whether other countries celebrate the 1st of April…
Abstraction
I’ve started doing a once monthly course for 4 months, on abstraction with artist Liz Hough, https://www.schoolofpainting.co.uk,. I’m working from the image of an old painting I ruined. ( I have a large stock of those, I might add!) Luckily I took a photo at a stage when I felt it was going in the…
Still at it!
As mentioned in my last post, I’ve been attending online art sessions and classes, and I’m totally hooked! On my 70th birthday last year, because of restrictions I was unable to do anything special to celebrate, so as a pressie to myself (selfish I know) I promised myself that if I saw something I wanted…
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all!!
As regards my previous post in October my resolution is completely out the window! I have been busy on Instagram though, here are some snippets of what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. I’ve been taking loads of painting courses some offered by St Ives School of Painting http://www.schoolofpainting.co.uk with various artists,…
Neglect
Oh dear, sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog this year. I’ve completely failed this New Years resolution to post monthly, it’s because I’ve been won over by Instagram as it’s so quick and simple, so I’ve favoured that instead. This year has been a learning year for me. Due to Covid changing the pattern of…
Looking back
One of my first big projects after coming to live here in the early 90s was the interior of a restaurant, which was to be called Les Fresques. It was attached to a Château in the throes of being gutted and restored as a hotel complex. On a previous château commission I had divised a…
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