Sunday, February 2, 2014

Well here we are Groundhog Day and Wiarton Willy of Ontario, Canada and Punxitawney Phil  of Pennsylvania USA both saw their shadows, so we have at least 6 more weeks til spring.  Thank goodness and here`s hoping, as we had 11 more centimeters of snow last night.  At least the temp is a little better -3celsius,  although they say by Tuesday we`ll be back to colder temps again.  Enough about the weather...

These are two that I did for the Weekend Drawing event of January 24th hosted by Donna -  this measures 6`x6 and was done with watercolors

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Mangoes In A Basket

and the next one was done with Conte pencils in various shades of sepia, sanguine and three Conte pastels, ochre, med. yellow and white.

Starfish in A Basket

Well that's it for another week, please feel free to comment, remarks are much appreciated.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

My goodness, the last Sunday in January 2014 - now where did that month go?  All month long we have all been waiting for this 'Polar Vortex' to end, now it appears that we have a new cold I front from 'Siberia' and the meteorologists are forecasting this to happen right into the first week of February and maybe longer.  We'll just have to make light of it - such as a marquee posted in front of a church stated  "For all of those people praying for snow - please stop!"

This past week I did  two small paintings for +Crispur's Jan 17th WDE (Weekend Drawing Event, Wet Canvas) - the first "Parrot Fish" measures 4-1/4in. x  4-1/4in. using both interference and iridescent watercolors and the second "Sea Turtle" is 6in. x 9in.  using both alcohol and salt for the water as well as iridescent watercolor for the turtle's shell. The sad thing is that the beauty of  iridescent paints are not picked up on computer screens.  Again I have used virtual frames to finish the pieces, as in all artwork framing is important.

PARROT FISH

SEA TURTLE

Well that's all for this week,  please stay safe and especially if you have to drive.