Watercolour Love

Watercolour: what's not to love about it? I love the transparency of it. I also love the immediacy of it. I consider myself a mixed -media artist but I find that with my mixed media pieces I can get stuck in the process; not all the time, but a lot of the time. However, with watercolour one basically does the painting in one or two sittings, depending on your subject matter. I find myself drawn to nature when I'm painting with watercolour. It just seems to lend itself so well to nature related subjects as it seems like a more natural medium. I hope you enjoy some of my watercolour pieces.

Dreaming in Africa!

At last I've finished another painting! I am incredibly blessed to be living in such a beautiful area: rural Kwa Zulu Natal. Surrounded by beautiful people and a stunning counrty-side. I've been working on this piece: "African Dreams" for a while. I wanted to do an African version of a painting I did a while back. The painting is a tribute to so many who, for various reasons, have had to leave their homes, families, children and villages to find work in the cities. So the background, in the painting, is the lady's "dream" of her home.

Calling all angels...

It's been ages since I've posted. That's not to say that I haven't been busy. I've been working on a really large painting of three angels. I must say that I enjoyed doing this painting. Co-incedently Bethel Music's "Loft Live Sessions" arrived in the mail as I was working on this piece and I was blown away by a track called "Angels"
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-loft-sessions/id489526875
I know that God places His angels all around us :"He ordered his angels to guard you wherever you go. If you stumble, they'll catch you; their job is to keep you from falling." Psalm 91. I was really reminded of this as I marveled at how we narrowly escaped the devastation of a car accident this past week. As My husband and I considered the damage to the car, we praised the Lord at the protection He had given us. My daughter, who was in the back of the car where a bus went into us walked away with only a few scratches.

I also just finished working on a painting for my husband as we celebrated our 21 wedding anniversary today!

I recycled another painting and ended up with this. The texture left from the painting underneath gave some interesting effects to the final painting.















And lastly, this is a painting I'm working on now.

It's still in it's beginning stages so I'm not sure yet how it will end up. I'll post it when it's finished! Until next time, happy easter holidays...

Season's Greetings!

It always amazes me how one can begin a piece of art with one direction in mind only to end up with a final product that is totally different to the way one started out. I love the adventure of painting. You never quite know where you'll end up. Sometimes I have a very definite picture in mind and I'll sketch it out and it ends up pretty close to the image I have in my head. But, with the mixed media approach to art, there are times when I'll do layer upon layer, upon layer until I begin to sense where to go next. This happened with one I've just finished : "A Walk in the Woods".

I started it before a recent trip to England. While in England I was so taken with the trees and 'fall'. It was the first time I experienced a Northern Hemisphere fall! So when I got back home it was a pleasant surprise that 'trees' began to appear in the painting. The other painting I recently finished picked up on the "swirly-heavenly' theme that I wrote about in my last blog (featured at the top of this page). I'm excited now to begin my next painting; who know's where it'll take me...