New blog

Just wanted anyone who looks at this blog to know I've moved to wordpress you can now find me here

External Inspiration

Flower-Pano by Edgar Emmels

Painting Poppies by Irma Weber

Gegen die Zeit by Steinfeld

All these pictures are from the Art Market on the WHITEWALL website. You can get lost for a while on there. This morning these 3 caught my attention and i wanted to put them somewhere to remind me to go back and look again later when i have time, so just thought I'd share them on here.

Sail away

Morning sails - 
tranquility & that lovely whiteness you get looking out to sea with a new sun.

Summer sails - 
holiday time and all the boats come out to play.

Racing sails - 
all the colours, painting the sea like a prism refracting the light.

Evening sails - 
catching the last hues of the sky before they sink into the horizon.

messing with paints

I just don't seem to be able to paint with reds, I try, but I just end up painting over them, it's all blues and green. Must be my calm tranquil period. 

Something missing on here so I took it outside and photographed with sun, shadows and plants.

                                          hum... is it missing spiky skinny yellows..?

                                              oranges and bright yellow greens...?

 

or pinks...?

                                   Will leave it for another day... 

and go back to these green Shropshire landscapes which I don't seem to be able to escape from...

Self-Indulgence

 

       just playing for an hour with scanned in painted daisies, experimenting and discovering.

                                                    from simple daisies on white...

to a complicated layered lace effect, finding what works and what doesn't ... loving the process...

                                                                     and the results  xx

Did I !?

         Cornflower fairy dresses- I'm still waiting to get stuck into this photo.


Well did I find my inspiration ? and what happened to Day 30?


Day 30 was spent in London, eating, walking, listening to music & people watching.
The music was inspiring, and so was the choice of sushi on Oxford street, though not the rest of Oxford street but as the music was in Hyde Park, Oxford street is excused.
Creativity has gone on and is getting better, though if I want to earn some money from it, a lot of my textile work is now going to have to be kept private. 
The 30 day's has been a great experience for me and definitely got me excited about my art, design and painting. Making the time to be creative is the hardest thing but I'm going to stick at it. I'll put some more pics up here soon.

29 my head

sea rays

Day 29 and I've loved every minute of the past month. Doing my blog has been a great experience for me. Putting an accountability around my creativity, I was afraid may stifle my work, but on the contrary it's freed me up.  Actually sitting down and getting things out of my head has allowed me more space in my head and the freedom to experiment, develop ideas and get to places beyond where I knew, finding new ground. It's never been a chore on the contrary I've sometimes had trouble stopping, it's been a case of me saying, stop go to bed, it's late but then my head is buzzing so much i can't sleep anyway. 
Tomorrow is day 30 and I won't be here to blog, that's not to say I won't be creative just won't get it up here on the last day!  but as I've already decided this is too good to stop it's not going to be my last day. Now all I have to do is work out how I make money doing what I love thanks Beth, and thank you Sam for getting us both enrolled back into our Art.

This 'Sun's rays' illustration began as my painting, then photographed, photoshopped, filtered, layered and generally me just being totally self indulgent with my mac. 
I'm going to put these two up on the white wall gallery and get myself one! in celebration of my 30 days.

sea mood

                                                                                             Inspiration found xxx

28 Art, Fashion & Computers

a media collage and eclectic mix of a painting, a photograph, photoshop and imagination... and no it's not supposed to be me. I couldn't possibly wear that dress, I wouldn't be able to dance!

27 advanced florals

on from 26's pretty florals, experimenting, discovering new techniques and just not wanting to stop yet. See her on greeting cards

26 pretty florals

this textiles print idea followed on from 22 discovering. Using layers and layers of designs  and seeing what happens. Where is the start and when to stop.

25 Painting

         Had a great afternoon painting with Sam, another Shropshire landscape.

                                                      a sea picture

and a sunset reflection pic, which I'm kind of hoping will stay with the reds. It doesn't seem to matter how colourful I start my paintings seem to go into the greens and blues.
Dispite painting next to Sam and her wonderful colour sense. Been a great day though, and all the above still need work on but hopefully won't leave it so long to get the paints back out. Nice messy change to the computer and such a clean way of creating illustrations.

24 comercial

Creating things I think have a commercial possibility area real challenge, but I guess on cafepress I'll get to see if they are, and if not it's easy to change them.

23 Sugar Cubes

 

well today I did spend a lot of time on Sugar Cubes which is a good thing, as I've decided to give it a proper go until Christmas. A new school bag and I do like the design so fingers crossed. An advert for pony mag and loading images into the cafepress site so very busy, positive and the right direction... and the D Sugar Cubes blog too...

22 Discovering

Interesting creative night!. 

wasn't sure how or where to start. Just started to feel like I'm getting somewhere, and too late to carry on. So I'm hoping I can start off tomorrow from where I've just arrived. But that's a surprise for tomorrow so here's what happened tonight. No explanations just some of the images which have helped me discover new techniques.

 

20 & 21 dance figures

20

This first couple belong to yesterday the 20th. I drew them yesterday and then went out to my Tango class.

I'm not happy with him, I like her but the question is, is this a tango couple or not? I asked for opinions and the answer is, it's not. 

21

So the image above has been named 'Dance embrace'  I'm putting it up here so I can see how my dancing figures will improve. I love the simplicity of this one and there's lots of potential to play with the 3 solid colours/shapes. 

as these figures are more suitable to a blues room I've played with the blues and the fire...

now I need to make sure I take a sketch book with me dancing so I can get some better figures. I get much better starting figures working from life.

19 Gallery

took me a while but some of my work up for sale in my whitewall gallery

18 Origami rose

 

                                                   back to flowers and Stephen's rose 

                                      a beautiful folded rose, like some natural origami lesson

 

                                   
                                                          simple rose centre detail

 



                                            complicated layered rose detail