I’ve taken some old boards that had pictures on them which we don’t hang any more, white washed them ready for new creativity.
Following the rain on a painted window technique I’ve used a few times.
Liking the colours on this one.
Had a while of black dog days, too much work and not enough balance with creative.
Now the problem with doing a massive painting… is that it’s massive! Takes up loads of space, (most of a wall in this case) requires lots of paint… and I mean lots! And it takes ages…
Now this last point isn’t really an issue, in fact it’s more the point of this particular painting, do something over a long period of time that I go away from and come back to.
The sky isn’t really the sky in the photo that this picture is based on but it’s more how that sky feels through the trees at the moment, I walk these woods almost every day and in the afternoon it now feels like the sky is rushing to get dark.
Been a while since I had chance for some creative time due to work and a holiday, yes a holiday… 😱
Afternoon’s Christmas gift idea creating, only happy with the snowmen ⛄️, think they’ll be getting a coat of paint…
I’m fancying something in the range of Calvin and Hobbes snowmen.. lots more slices of wood to be done.
This piece started as a practice of a dabbing style and just grew into what I’m seeing as a transition of water to earth, the green and browns like the compressed layers in stone and the yellow and orange shores and sand.
It was certainly fun to do and I’m enjoying having it on the wall.
This spring time during the great “lockdown” of 2020, I started to whittle and shapes some piece of wood into necklace gifts.
The sloth I’d seen a picture of on Pinterest and was able to almost perfectly replace it.
Using fine drill bits and files I was able to shape cut away the unwanted parts.
The wolf head was a slower process as the piece of wood was much harder and took much more work to shape.
Enjoyable experience and I think I’ll be making more as gifts in the future and I have about 20 slices of a branch to use!
Lessons learnt from a recent water inspired painting, applied to the sky of this one. More layers of light blues and then white and then the sun and finally the green of the leaves to come….
Inspiration being drawn in, to creativity flowing out.
Totally made this up from memory.
I have a image in my head of the mountains at the side of loch Lockie in Scotland from when I’ve done road trips up there.
This is that image…
It was fun to as the style was very different to anything I had previous done and it was a much slower production, taking 3-4 days as I needed to allow the paint to dry.
Same painting just in different light.
This one was inspired by my exploration of the heathen culture, researching the history of the vikings, their gods and beliefs.
It comes from an ancient Icelandic stave and in that text it states that
“if this sign is carried, one will never lose one’s way in storms or bad weather, even when the way is not known”
As a person who is always drifting it speaks to me to know your way.
So it now hangs in my kitchen and is the first thing you can see when you walk through the door.
