Happy Friday!

I'm relieved it's Friday. It's been a busy week and also really humid here in London. It makes commuting hideous.

I am looking forward to being with my wonderful Jim, the children, family and of course my art supplies.

Hope you have a good weekend too!

10/52 - Tulip

The opening up of a tulip can be so beautiful, so I used my Hipstamatic app on my iPhone to capture this.
Happy Friday everyone and I hope you all have a great weekend!

Sunday Sketches

A late Sunday Sketch entry today, but it's here at last.

I shall head over to Sophia's blog to check out the others.

Take care.

A bit stuck

Well I'm a bit stuck. I randomly started this layered watercolour painting of flowers with a bird, and I wasn't sure where I was heading with it. Just really wanted to see the transparent layers of the flowers over each other, so I pretty much let the painting just flow. And now I am not sure what to do.I feel like it needs to 'pop' a bit more, but then again, it's nice to have soft gentle colours. So I'm debating whether to outline it......it certainly needs something!
So any ideas are well and truly welcome.

Hope you all are having a great day.....I'm glad you enjoyed the Kelly Berkey interview, she really is just the sweetest person.

Helen xx

A creative day...

I had a super creative day yesterday. In the afternoon I spent some time doing a sketch of a lock on a cemetery gate. It was from a photo I took when Jim and I went to Cornwall. I really want to do more sketching as it improves drawing skills so much, so this is just the start of filling my little sketchbook.

Then in the evening I wanted to carry on with a mixed media collage painting I had started quite a while ago, but I couldn’t find it.....I did however find a painting of a flower that I had started some time ago which I wasn’t pleased with. So I decided to give that a bash and see how it came out. Still not totally pleased with it.

Before: After:

I then carried on working on my latest project. I have been looking at the work of Escher and am creating a series of paintings based on his work. I recently finished my version of Goriano Sicoli, Abruzzi and I am currently working on Town in Southern Italy.

My version of Goriano Sicoli, Abruzzi:

Here are the first stages of the second painting in the series (Town in Southern Italy). Not sure where I am going with this as I have left a lot out of the original picture but I wanted to get some colour on it before I made a decision.

Have a creative week!!!