Snowdrop Time

Snow drops are looking gorgeous in the garden.
We have a really good show this year.

The Daffodils are just coming through too.
Spring must be on its way. 

Time to order from the Sarah Raven catalogue 🙂

The Feather

The Magical Feather

Sketchbook Work – What Lies below?

 “What lies below” was the prompt from the Documented Life Project 2015.

I immediately thought of Hares – though I realise they don’t actually live in burrows (artistic license!) and I thought of the Cup & Ring marked rocks we find in Northumberland.
So many of which must still be UNDER the ground.

 So here is the spread, I cut through to a second painted page – its not as delicate as I would have liked, but then that’s the point of trying out new ideas, its an experiment, it doesn’t always have to work.  

But it’s a great starting point for refinement and further study.

What I did love was my sleeping hare….. I think you’ll be seeing him again.
Am having a hare thing at the mo…..

Sketchbook Work – The Labrynth

The Beginning and the End.

 Labrynth: An intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find ones way or reach an exit.  
Any confusingly intricate state of things or events.

 

 

Sketchbook Work – Dream

Sketchbook Work – Dream

We should all Dream.
I think it’s important for the artistic soul.

 

Sketchbook Work – An artist is….

An Artist is an Explorer…..

(Or as I said when I posted this on Facebook – An artist is… underpaid, undervalued and fed up! – but I was having a bad day!!)

Don’t forget you can find me on Facebook  here.
Would love to see you there.
 

 

 

 

Empowered

 

My “Word” for 2015.

I’m sure I’ll use many more – but this is the one to hold onto and remember its meaning.

Dictionary definitions;

1. Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.

2. Make (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights.

Inside that pouch should be my 2015 goals….. but I haven’t had time to think about them yet.
That says an awful lot. 

 

 

Sketchbook Work – The Crow and the Stones

The Crow and the Stones.

Collaged from an old calendar of Avebury Stone Circle (you see it is GOOD to keep things for years, they WILL come in handy sometime!) along with a photograph of stone sculptures I made in the Ingram Valley. 

Beacon of Light

Taken directly from the class on Life Book 2015

Its been a LONG time since I sat down to draw.

WHY???!  
When I love it so much.

(Note to Self – Get on with drawing more!) 

Sketchbook Work – Wild at Heart

 Wild at Heart

 

Poppies are formed with Silk ribbon.  Didn’t have any trouble find that in my studio!