Nothing changes

How do you get out of the creative doldrums?  I have had that over the past few weeks.  I have a painting in my head but it refuses to come out!  I have found when that happens it pays to look at past works and either get inspiration from them or rework them.

I did this pencil drawing way back, it was from a photo from the National Geographic in the 50’s or even earlier. Looking at it I was immediately struck that it could be a scene from any refugee camp today.  It haunted me for a couple of days and I wondered whether the scence would be so haunting if it was in colour, so I got my watercolours out.

Not so haunting, black and white definitely tells the story better.  I know my style probably softens the message.

Now to try and get that picture out of my head for next weeks PPF!  Happy Paint Party everybody!

 

 

 

Marie

Marie is a cleaner, and some consider her to be “simple” or “slow”, they make fun of her and some even bully her.  They are so wrong, in her world she is a hero, a testament to faith, loyalty and love.  If people took the trouble to listen to her mutterings they would realize how wrong they are, she has a wicked sense of humour that belies the “simple label.  They might even be ashamed!

You rock Marie.

Happy PPF Everybody and thanks for visiting.

Polka dots and stripes

This week I had to laugh at myself!  Did your mother ever tell you the ‘no nos’ of  clothing?  I remember her saying

“do not wear brown shoes with black or was it blue? ” Also pattern on pattern was wrong, which had me in a fit of giggles yesterday as I found myself wearing stripes and dots!  To honour that, I had to do a small sketch of the event, which somehow morphed into  a cat.

I think cats and stripes were on my mind as I have started making crochet toys for charity and one that I am very proud of is the stripey cat.

Here they are photographed with Zana.

I hope all of you at PPF have a lovely weekend and I will see you on my rounds.

Playing with Colour

Almost didn’t have anything to post for PPF this week.  My legs got entangled with a ladder when hanging up some curtains and I have messed them up a bit (especially the knees) and as a result have to park myself in a chair with my legs up or hobble around on two crutches.  I ditched the painkillers as they were making me rather groggy and now I can think!

The braces I have to wear mean that I cant bend my knees and sitting at a table is awkward.  So it is in the recliner I languish my days away.  Not all is lost as I have been doing some crochet, A crochet along that I had my eye on by a South African, Vanessa Smith of Hooked on Sunshine blog but didn’t think I had the time for.   So I downloaded  the pattern and have beavering  away.  As per usual I have completely moved away from the colours suggested and the order of the colours.  It is like painting with cotton.  Strangely enough the cotton brand I am using is called Paintbox!

I have been trying out a trial of Painter 5 Essentials and the trial ends at the weekend, I like it but wondered what the full blown Painter 2018 was like and decided to download the a trial for that.  That was 3 o’clock this afternoon, a burnt dinner, many cold teas later I have this to show you.

I love it!  I think I will definitely get it as it does so much more, especially with texture and thick paint brushes.  It will even be better when I get a Waicom tablet to draw and paint with.  I did this with a mouse, somewhat awkward to say the least.

Have you noticed that my colours are similar to the afghan I am making!  Do you tend to stick to a certain colour palette? I must try and extend myself and push the envelop a bit.

Here’s something to make you smile whether you are a crocheter or painter.

Have a lovely week and thank you for visiting.

Sharon.

Drawing again

I have not had much time for art this week, (in the process of redecorating my lounge) however I managed to get two drawing done. Something I haven’t done in a while. The first is of my cat lolling in front of the fire, despite it being spring here we are still getting yuck weather!

 

The next one is a pencil and pastel drawing which I might turn into a painting later.

From time to time I drag out this painting and splash some paint on waiting for inspiration, so far all I get is a branch going across, I am beginning to think I might do a bush scene.

Well that’s it for this week.  Thanks for visiting and thanks to Paint Party Friday for allowing us to show and tell!

Paint Party Friday

Here  are two lovelies I did this week using Painter, I love how you can create texture with this programme.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you all have a wonderful PPF.  Do go there to see all the other lovely art work.

Best Friends

I think the sweetest thing is when sisters are best friends, or perhaps when best friends are sisters!

I am joining Paint Party Friday with this picture  Some of you may know me from my old blog Art Inspires.  I am glad to say that my art  creative mojo is back, albeit in digital form,so new media, new blog.

Sharon

Cissy

I am loving Paint Essentials, this morning I did this and am so pleased!

Hello There

I have decided to revive this blog as I cant get into my old blog My Place.  Its a long story and I wont go into it here.

Lately I have been getting into digital art and have just purchased Coral Paint Essentials 5.  Later I might go the whole hog and buy Painter 2018, but I will see how I get on first!

Yesterday, I started to play, and here is what I have done so far, it needs further work but I am quite pleased with it.

Will post the finish pic whatever the result , lol.

Jeremy the Tree Wizard

This week Illustration Friday has a theme of beards.  This is an illustration for Melody that I am working on.  The bearded

character is Jeremy the tree Wizard.