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!
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!
This is Richard III and he’s in love with our outside tap. It’s a slightly convoluted story but bear with me: Graham used discarded hats to protect our taps from frost during winter, they look a bit peculiar dotted round the garden but they serve their purpose. Now, the reason this little reinette frog is…
Wintry twigs with their very own Christmas decorations, each droplet contains a miniature, an inverted world of the surrounding landscape. My phone camera’s not good enough to capture their magic, but I’m happy enough to see these worlds in real-time. And here we are on the last day of 2023, a dreich day if ever…
The winter solstice has passed so now we already have longer days to look forward to, how quickly time passes! Here’s wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year, enjoy your festivities and seize the day!🎄🎄🍾🎉🥳🎁🥂🍻🪅🎈 For your Christmas card and if you have a printer that works (!) and you don’t mind using…
I managed to finish the Inktober Challenge, although I fell 3 days behind, so I continued til November 3. Here are the rest of my responses to the Inktober daily word prompts, which I also posted daily on Instagram .
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…
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.…
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 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…
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!
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.
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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ARTIST: oils, watercolours, trompe l'œil and design