just add pink 20.05.16
just add pink…
just add pink 20.05.16
Art studio
just add yellow…
just add yellow I, II, III watercolour on paper 18.05.16
Face-off
Face-off – the photo.
The title of today’s post will soon become evident. Since this week’s Photo Challenge is all about faces it seemed appropriate to begin with this photo of my pencil box with the iconic portrait of Mono Lisa on its lid. It caught my eye as I was in the process of cleaning my white porcelain palette, still with its copse and rubbers image from a few days ago.
Seeing Mona Lisa looking at me in with those eyes that seem to follow you wherever you are, and clearly with this week’s Photo Challenge still in my mind, suddenly it seemed like a good idea to paint her onto the half cleaned tile.
Face-off – the painting
Mission accomplished, time for her to go.
Face-off – the movie
Weekly Photo Challenge: Face
Paul Schofield in The Captain of Köpenick (1971)
Laurence Olivier in The Dance of Death (1967)
Drawing the faces of these two giants of the English stage revealed to me the power that they could generate with either a distant glance or thunderous frown. Both of their performances live on in my memory as unforgettable evenings in the theatre from many years ago.
copse and rubbers
Thanks to Tina whose wonderful photo of Muddy Waters on her always inspiring blog Travels and Trifles was the starting point for this copse painting that began with loose washes of watercolor and ended with a fair amount of rubbing to create the finished piece, hence the title of today’s post.
At the same time, using the same palette of watercolors on my wet white porcelain tile a somewhat more abstract copse began to appear, as the drying paint was scraped and rubbed.
Thanks Tina and also Debi whose Creative Zone for Making Art inspires me every day.
trail mix
admiralty arch
camelliaspectives
For this week’s Discover Challenge: Perspective Ben states “We each inhabit a specific vantage point from which we blog” and asks What’s yours? As those of you who follow my blog will know my vantage point is always both visual and written, so in response to Ben’s question I thought I would express my camelliaddiction once again today with pen, ink, watercolor and photography, with one final image that is clearly very much about perspective.
camellia studies 31.3.16
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dance
past imperfect
1985
“The imperfect is a verb form, found in various languages, which combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or state).” Wikipediabouquet Monday…remember
tulip burst after 14.3.16
thechangingpalette 