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…
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…
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,…
Continuing with the isolation art challenge, at the rate I going I’ll be finished in a year instead of 60 days, no matter, I’m still managing to do a theme every so often; now is the time to sow and plant, and everything’s growing like mad, so the chores in the garden get more compelling …and…
The Isolation Art Challenge continues with 25,700+ members! The organisers (arttutor.com) have ditched the idea of calling the themes Day 1 Day 2 etc, they’re just staying with theme titles. They’ve relaxed the “rules” and you can pick and choose from the 60 themes for 60 days, doing as many as you like or as…
Miscellaneous: when I find it hard to get to my studio because of juggling various jobs, (and when I do get there I struggle) I give myself a break and paint the house instead. After painting outside doors and shutters, I turned my attention on the entrance which was looking rather tired, not surprising considering I…
A very dear Dutch friend, an artist and art teacher in Rotterdam, has very kindly given me some assignments to help me loosen up and investigate the abstract in my approach to painting. I was bemoaning my frustration with my work, and how I want to explore new horizons. I feel moved to push myself…
Sunny days amidst the grey drear: a couple of weeks ago we had friends staying so we took the opportunity of taking them on the local tourist trail. The weather was stunning the one day when visiting Domme, reminding us why we live here! Distant views showing the flooded valley, we’ve had loads of…
I had a couple of jobs towards the end of last year, one was to paint the interior of a WC like a stormy sky, almost black with clouds looming menacing and dark. This is the before photo, I’ve just sanded it down to key the first coat of primer, incidentally I painted this WC…
As usual I have loads of ideas for projects and paintings, but I’m feeling a little rusty; it requires a certain amount of courage to embark on a voyage of discovery paint-wise which can so easily end in feelings of failure and be a waste of precious time, so whenever I have a free moment…
Graham’s been away nearly 5 weeks now in the UK working on our house there, so I’ve been busy busy busy with the B&B and changeovers, lots of washing ironing and gardening, mowing and strimming plus exhibitions looming, (and no time to seriously get down to painting in preparation for them……help!) Anyway without my handyman…
Somehow, with time getting less and less available for painting, it feels as though I haven’t picked up a paintbrush for ages. So, thank goodness for the iPad, I’ve been quickly sketching on that and playing about with my images on the PS express app. This enables me to change or invert colours of any original painted…
I have a very dear friend in hospital at the moment, and having been by her bedside whilst food was served, I felt motivated to write an Ode to Hospital Food. Well… if Rabbie Burns can write an Ode to a Haggis, then that’s inspiration enough for me! One expects French hospital food to follow…
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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