Places of Water, and Rainbow Ribbons. - Jan 2019

~ You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment ~ Henry David Thoreau

         Sea Lion                         

Close up of completed work.



These portraits, Sea Lion and Rainbow Ribbon, are the beginnings of another stage of my work. They are an attempt at doing a painting in two days or less. I need to have ways of working quickly to keep producing. I ahve been looking forward to paint in this way and to see the results. My second attempt, Sea Lion, is already better than my first, Rainbow Ribbon, and came more easily to me. The next post will be the entire image completed. 

My drawings of the past months were the first stage in my vision for my artwork - 'The Drawing-A-Day Challenge' which I have been posting on my facebook page. Again, I needed a way to be able to do my artwork regardless of what is going on in my life. Whilst I always look forward to drawing as often as possible - whether 1 or sometimes 4 in a day - I miss painitng after a while. 
I began to wonder about how to set myself up with painting equipment that would not take long to put up or dismantle or do. I need to get a good size painting box/easle that carries everything needed for small works, so that when i am travelling or away, I can take it with me or just open it up, do some and put it away again. 

In the meantime, I set my work up anyway, and I have begun to paint these small quick images regardles. In the end, working at it and making the art is the only way to get better and get the art work out there!

                                Sea Lion - Close up of w.i.p.

~ 'The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.' ~ Henry David Thoreau

 Rainbow Ribbon. 

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~ 'Would you see your mind, look at the sky. Would you know your moods, be weather-wise. He whom the weather disappoints, disappoints himself.' ~ H.D.T

'Place of Water, Winter Morning.' Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

Pretty much done with this one after too long. The colours and light are better in the original than my photo - I really must learn to take better photos of my work! 

Ordinary lives, ordinary things - the stuff of life - the cycles, the interconectedness of life on this planet, is the philosophy behind what I try to recreate in my artwork; be they drawings, paintings or other works. Enjoy