Painting Skies I love painting skies in watercolour. Using wet-on-wet technique it is so easy to get various clouds formations. A simple sky is just a gradient blue and then swipe some colour off with a brush or tissue for some simple clouds. Sunsets can also be so beautiful in watercolour. There are some challenges…
Happy New Year I wish you all a Happy New Year. I did take a bit of a break over the holidays, doing only a little painting and no writing. Instead I worked on a jigsaw puzzle. This was a 1000 piece puzzle, of a scene in Paris. It was lovely but quite difficult. It…
Background Story My reason for creating art is different from yours I am sure. People do art for any number of reasons. I hadn’t really thought about mine too much until a recent interaction I had. I was volunteering at a local art show and sale in which I had some pieces. My job was…
30 Bible Verses for Personal Peace My Search for Peace I am a Christian and although I don’t normally advertise it or go preaching, I do hope that my life shows it. It is who I am and it affects, much of the time anyway, how I think, act and react to various situations. The…
Background I have always been an active person. There were so many things I wanted to do, as well as so many things I felt I had to do. It was overwhelming. I wouldn’t know where to start. Then when I finally decided to do something… I would either feel bitter and resentful because I…
Do You Have a Favourite Painting? Do you have any favourite paintings? I mean ones that you painted. I have two. There are many that I like, that I feel are well done and that I am proud of. I have many of my paintings framed and hanging in the house. I painted my two…
Painting has certainly played a large role in helping me deal with my grief. Our family has gone through two very difficult and painful years, with sudden deaths of young family members, surgery, which left me immobile and housebound for weeks, our whole town was evacuated due to threat of forest fire. All this happened…
The Start to My Watercolour Journey My start to watercolour was later in life. I have not been a lifelong artist. Although I did like some drawing and colouring as a child, it was never a passion of mine. I never thought I was very good at it. I was always creative though. I tried…
Welcome to my website. This has been a long time coming. When I first started selling my paintings I wanted to create a website. Art was a hobby for me so I didn’t want to pay someone to do it. I looked at many videos on YouTube claiming a quick and easy tutorial for beginners….
