Canvas and sensitivity ....

Sometimes you just have to send someone a hug from god ....

I had fun with collage, acrylic paint and pastels on box canvas and sent this off to a friend eager to here and see ...

And in return, they blessed my day!

Steampunk texture...

I found some old collages on artist board and decided to work back into them ...

I don't even remember when I first made them, but painting them was good fun!

I wonder can you guess how some of these textures were made?

The metallic effect is made using bronze acrylic paint ...

Russian Doll making - WIP

Recently the girls had been doing some Russian Doll colouring, and designed some of the own for some handmade cards. I decided to buy a set of blanks for us to have a go at the real thing!



I made a Flickr gallery for inspiration, and off we went, starting with some fabric collage and some acrylic paint ...


From left to right, the work of Daisy, Matty, Mary and four for Mummy - the fiddly ones!

bound for the new portland arts centre ...

mary admires them, and now my old 'could have fooled me too' entries are going into a christmas exhibition ...

can you see how i have tweeked one of the pictures?

i hope the wonderful phil is happy with them now ...

i feel that these paintings are finished now ...

i shall just have to wait and see what phil says about them ...

i brought them outside to get a good luck at the colours, as they change so much with the lighting and the weather in doors ...

it has been good fun painting something with some one else in mind, and reminds me of doing my projects at art collge and uni! those were the days ...

mixed media painting, more WIP pics ...

i have added more muted colours to these canvases.
the 'death of marat' painting is next to one from two years ago, with much brighter colours!

the set of three paintings is progressing, with all the fabric added now ...

WIP painting progress - mostly collage ....

you can see my fox front feet peeping out from under the death of marat !

art in progress ....

here are some sketches on canvas of some well known art works ... i wonder what they will look like when i have finished with them ?

i will do the draw for my giveaway on sunday, thanks for commenting xxx

art revisited

something i produced before i was a cheeky blogger!