8"X6" Acrylic on board
, especially in pots. I keep them in the basement over the winter, they only need to be watered about once a month and in the spring they have a head start.
5"X7" Oil on board
6"X4" Watercolour on paper
And now for something completely different. It is time to get back to matters closer at hand. I haven't been working much in watercolour and I thought that these little snowdrops, almost buried still in last year's leaves, would be a good place to start.
I used some hand made paper that I bought at the Tate gift shop last year, it makes a change and I really need to practice more, especially doing deep saturated colour like this one.
I see that I just acquired my 50th "follower" and I now occasionally have over 80 subscribers according to Feedburner (the number fluctuates wildly, but rarely goes below 75 and has been as high as 82). I find myself to be both gratified and somewhat intimidated by this. I hope you all find something interesting here, I haven't been posting as regularly for the past few months as I did in my first two years, but perhaps that is a good thing!
5"X7" Acrylic on board
I may have to stop calling myself a Daily Painter. The best I seem to manage at the moment is 1-3 a week.
Amarilii
are always cheering at this time of year. I bought some primulas in the
Market yesterday too, maybe I will paint them next week.
5.5"X3.5" Mixed media in paper
Shasta Daisies on the patio. Not much to say really.
I have been wasting far too much time this evening playing with the new Picassa face recognition programme. My husband, the Mac man, says that Apple has had this for a while, but it is new to me. It is uncannily accurate some of the time but has a lot of difficulty with my sons. Like the rest of the world, it doesn't seem to be able to tell them apart. Most of the time I don't have any difficulty, even fuzzy little images with half of the face missing. Sometimes even I can't manage it though, so I just guess and come back to it later.
7"X5" Acrylic on board
Jerusalem Artichokes have nothing to do with Jerusalem or artichokes. Tasting somewhat like artichokes (it is the root which is eaten) the early european settlers called them girasols because of the way they turn to the sun like their cousins the sunflowers.
Ours must be close to three and a half metres (twelve feet) high and are much loved by the bees.
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2.5"X3.5" Acrylic on paper
I probably won't be posting for the next few days, I am going to Montreal for a long-overdue visit with my eldest. I will try to fill my sketchbooks with lots of urban scenes.
5"X7" Oil on board
I can't for the life of me remember what these are called. They are quite rose-like, especially the buds, but are thornless and the leaves are arranged in opposing pairs (decussate?). I picked up a couple of bunches at the market yesterday, they were past their best and on sale.
