A bright new year and The Colours of Paisley

Wishing all of my blog followers a bright new year.

I have a few paintings I couldn't show before Christmas, so I'm starting the New Year off with those.
The first is a painting of the most beautifully mannered, friendly Rottweiler I've met.

The Colours of Paisley

Painted on Saunders Waterford 140lb rough paper, using Winsor & Newton paints.

I'm for dogs !

The builders are doing the fiddly bits to the kitchen to make it beautiful and the electrician is fitting sockets and lights!

Somewhere in the melee, I found time to paint these three, which I have donated to a local dog rescue (South East Dog Rescue) for their online auction to raise funds for building some new kennels.
Auction is HERE if you'd like to bid :)

The paintings:

and, in other news, for all my blogger friends who have been concerned for us, we are not near the areas in London where the riots have been taking place, we have only watched it on the news, as you have. 
Thank you for thinking of us. xx

Through thick and thin

I've been busy with the aquapasto again!

Two smaller paintings, both 11 x7 . Arches 140 Rough.

Trying out the two ends of the medium - applying it very thickly and then very thinly on the second.
First painting up is the thick aquapasto

Raw Perry

and the second is the thinly applied aquapasto

The Sea Dog

As always, I appreciate your comments and observations and critiques. 

I've enjoyed using the aquapasto, stretching its limits. I have found I can't blend it too well. But then it is for impasto work, so I will enjoy it for what it can do. 

I am going to return now to watercolour, pure and simple. I'm missing some aspects, like the fizzing of the colours on paper.  There'll be some of each in my future - I love them both!  Take care and enjoy the week xx

Time to loosen up!

That's what my mummy said.. time to loosen up!

I'm trying to think what she means...

when suddenly she starts flicking paint all over the show!

What's that about, hey?

Mummy says she was very tight in the last painting, so she needs an exercise to loosen up - and this is it.

What do I think?  I think mummy needs to learn how to loosen up the way we dogs do :)

 Don't you agree ? :)

Ink!

Made purely from Ink.. and done in a Pollock style..


my newest painting (inking?)

The Quest for Reason

The Alphabet Paintings: D

D is for..............

Diamond

This is 11x8 and its already hanging in my house! 

I love the different colours in the facets, very geometric. 

Its quite striking in real life. I'm particularly pleased with this one !

Doodle day

Just a couple of doodles today.. sometimes that's all I can fit in a day.



Gives me ideas for future paintings .. although there are people who analyse doodles - there's even a National Doodle Day and a Doodle for Google competition for youngsters!

Mine were simply practise drawing doodles and no hidden meanings as far as I know!

National Doodle Day raises money to help people suffering with epilepsy and neurofibromatosis

Doodle for Google a chance for a youngster to have their Google Doodle seen by millions and to win a trip to California

and just for fun.. the meaning of doodles..