Sunday Sport

This painting came from one of the thumbnails in the previous post :)
I thought I'd have a little fun with it.

Sunday Sport

So I took two leaves from the garden and impressed them into a wash of new gamboge. When they'd made an impression I dropped a couple of drops of French Ultramarine in the still damp wash and let that do its thing.

In the meantime in the tree I had scrunched up some cling film. When that was dry it left wonderful texture marks. I then laid a wash of burnt sienna. When that was dry, I ran some candle wax over the tree trunk and then laid in another wash of burnt sienna. When that dried I used a dry brush technique with warm sepia - and this is a close up of the end result.

I had such fun making this, laughing to myself as I painted.
I hope its made you smile too :) xx

Whilst you were sleeping

Whilst Missy slept,



I picked up my sketchbook and an ink pen and this is the result:

Mountain River

Stumpy Tree

Playing with Baubles

Still doodling with the Coloursoft range.. my eye fell on the Christmas tree.

Playing with Baubles


Over the Christmas break, I am going to try to make a worked up picture with these pencils - to test their range... and mine!