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…
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,…
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…
It’s heartbreak time again……it’s not easy to see them go. They give us such joy these 4-legged souls whom we choose to have as companions. A lifetime to them it’s but a few years to us; however for all the emotional pain it causes I wouldn’t change it as I wouldn’t want them to outlive…
There was a fascinating article on the radio the other morning about how spiders can “fly”. Apparently scientists, after much study have discovered how they manage to land on ships in the middle of the ocean, which Darwin noted when on board ship, but he didn’t pursue investigating it. Spiders have been filmed waving one leg…
Atmospheric mountains form a backdrop to our friends’ house and village, they can change mood not only from day to day, but from hour to hour, grey dreary skies transform to spectacular cloud formations, then to deep blue skies, Constable would have been in his element painting here. On our return from a short break…
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 had an interesting painting project to do recently, rather smaller than the vast wall or ceiling areas I’m often asked to do, but still a challenge all the same: I was asked to restore a large antique toleware tray, I said was happy to give it a go ( probably a phrase that would…
The cranes have started flying north, a lovely surprise on St Valentine’s Day (Graham’s birthday), signalling that Spring is on it’s way. Frosty mornings and warm sunny days are on the menu at the moment, with primroses and violets flowering, daffodils about to bloom, and buds developing on the trees. So it’s been warm enough…
My New Year Resolution to paint more has involved mostly drawing and colour sketching, with a view to working in oils when it gets warmer. None of that freezing and starving in a garret for me I’m afraid; my cat sketches meant I could be in the warm kitchen right next to the Rayburn! Lucy the cat, who…
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…
I recently completed 3 more commissions see as follows, (although I seem to have lost the third photo, I must have forgotten to take one); I enjoy painting animals so I painted some geese right after finishing them. I’m still in the throws of preparing for an exhibition, ( with 4 other artists) which opens…
As I was reading in the garden at lunch, a strange and beautiful insect landed on the edge of my kindle. He was a pert and quirky little fellow, only 0.5cm long, with a tail not unlike a scorpion’s, and entirely lemony-yellow; I first noticed him because of his peculiar stance which was to rock…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
Lily S. May--Life with Art
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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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