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…
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,…
I’m not even going to mention politics or viruses, there’s plenty of discussion on that….. Over Christmas and into the New Year I did a series of illustrations on the twelve days of Christmas, it was a daily exercise and it corresponded with the actual 12 days of Christmas. It all started with the zoom…
Another year, my goodness me, 2020 seems to be such a nice rounded figure, yet we had no idea what was coming! My latest painting is this one in varying stages. I don’t know where this style came from, it appeared to paint itself, I wish I had more works that did that for me,…
Lockdown has created all sorts of online activities in all walks of life: out of necessity freelance people in the arts, theatre, cooking, teaching, yoga, singing…. the list is long and varied, have had to find new ways of earning a living until life gets back to normal. In this respect I think the internet…
I’ve been rather negligent with posting blogs this year, whatever happened to my intention to do so once a month? One reason is that I’ve had far less trompe l’œil and decor work this year, so I’ve had fewer interesting topics to post about. I suppose I could have been tempted to write about cleaning,…
It’s the last day of 2018 so I thought I’d better cram in my last bog of 2018, especially as I haven’t got round to sending Christmas greetings! So here’s my DIY Christmas card to all which is a Happy New Year card too. Print onto A4 paper and fold along the dotted lines. We…
I have a few blog posts lined up in my head, but this one is important in order to send you all Christmas Greetings! If you fancy doing some arts and crafts, then print this onto an A sheet of paper and fold along the dotted lines. There are a couple of sketches below to…
I haven’t had a lot of time to be creative recenly, what with Christmas etc, however this week I did manage to do a doggy portrait for a friend’s present: and the vegetarian “turkey” was a little sculpture in nut roast and pastry: next year, next year…. new resolutions as usual, involving me painting…
The fires are lit, the table set, now I’m off to construct the veggie turkey…… Bonnes fêtes and wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2017.
Our Merry Christmas, we had a lovely time with friends, sorry the photos are a bit blurred , but then so were we!! The “turkey”, (a nut roast wrapped in flaky pastry), not my most successful looking one, but time was short! The tree decorated with the colourful wooden characters I’ve had for years now, there are…
Here is Christmas card for 2014 which I didn’t post with the others. A Happy New Year to one and all! We spent a lovely Christmas at home with some friends: I confess I have broken some New Year Resolutions already, by eating too much, and by not painting or drawing yesterday , which means I…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
Lily S. May--Life with Art
sharing the creative process of artist, illustrator, and book lover, Judy Watson
Sharing my work and thoughts....
painting...drawing...making small worlds
Essays on Mathematics and Culture
postcards from the hedge - a blog by Phil Cooper
views from the artist's studio.
ARTIST: oils, watercolours, trompe l'œil and design
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