Month: January 2013
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Stone Wisteria completed – A Piece a Week 5
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This challenge is really working for me. Here I am five weeks into the year with five new art works to my name. The first one was just a journal page, but the rest have been full blown works. I’m totally excited.
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Stone Wisteria – Artful Creations Day 26
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It is amazing how the simplest thing can influence the direction of a painting. A friend of mine took one look at a WIP of mine and mentioned that it reminded her of wisteria. My brain latched onto the idea and now my abstract, random, I-don’t-know-what-it-is painting is now wisteria 😀 Thank you my dear…
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Some days they just don’t work out right – A Piece a Week 4
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I was really happy with my success with Izzy’s portrait, so, of course, I wanted a similar one of my elder daughter too.
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A moment in the studio – Artful Creations Days 17, 18, 19 & 20
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On my art table there you can see a weird WIP that I started the night before. Acrylic, iridescent gel and tiny quartz rocks. I have no idea where it is going, but it does have some interesting textures.
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Pending works – Artful creations Days 13, 14, 15, & 16
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This one has been sitting in the back of my mind for months. I’ve never painted a seascape (or landscape for that matter) and it is something I would really like to try. This particular image in colour has a lovely silver quality that would be a challenge to duplicate in paint, so expect to…
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Flying Spark – Artful Creations Days 11 & 12
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I love one word challenges. They can take me just about anywhere and have me creating just about anything. The Flying Spark is a daily word to do just that. Every day, using Twitter, there will be a word to spark inspiration. It appears here on this blog to the right top, or you can…
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Arty daydreams – Artful Creations Day 10
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You ever have those days where you spend hours doing the ‘have to’ tasks, but while you are doing them, all you can think of doing is your ‘want to’ tasks? And you keep yourself going throughout the day looking forward to when you have completed all the have-tos and can play – only to…