Hello, from a rather damp Spain!Luckily we brought our heated throws. The world weather has gone a little crazy. Hope my friends in the North including the US and Canada get through the snow ok. I decided not to do a snow project this week. As you may have noticed my love for soft pastels… Continue reading Courage
Hello! How are you all? Still cold here at night. I’m sitting under my heated throw. Definitely a type of winter in Spain but looking forward to Spring. It’s hard to believe that this time last year I was packing up my house in Northern Ireland and preparing to drive to Portugal to my Mum.!… Continue reading ‘Winter’
Hello friends and a belated happy new year! I’ve been on a little break over Christmas . I had my daughter staying and saw lots of family which was lovely! It’s definitely colder than expected at night here in Spain and we have had a lot of rain. However when the sun comes out it’s… Continue reading The calling
Hello and welcome to my latest creative round up. I hope you are all well! Christmas is very fast approaching so here is another Christmas card or artwork gift idea. You may find the tutorial Here Also for those of you that want to concentrate on practicing with your soft pastels I created this piece… Continue reading The gift
Hello! I hope you have had a great week. The cooler air is definitely here now. We have no heating in Spain so we are cozy under our heated throws! Hopefully we will get a log burner installed in due course. This week’s project is another Christmas card idea. I have always been fascinated by… Continue reading Gingerbread snow globe
Hello, well the storms are finally over ! It’s been an experience seeing so much rain, thunder and lightening! Nice to see blue skies again today but definitely much cooler. This weeks project is a pastel painting 10 x 12 inches on pastel board using both pan pastel and pastel pencils. I always like to… Continue reading Winter’s gift
Hello lovely friends I hope you are well. It’s been busy here at the Casa, gardening, fencing and finishing the shed. Still beautiful weather. Feels strange to see not sign of autumn colours though . I really miss the colours of Ireland but not the constant wind and rain! Never mind Autumn the winter creations… Continue reading The magic tree
Hello friends I hope you had a great weekend! This week sees the end of my Halloween/Autumn projects. But still plenty of time to create your own for the big event! I’ve been really enjoying creating paintings from pastels with a combination of drawing and stamps. It’s surprising how much colour depth can be achieved… Continue reading The colour of magic
Hello everyone, I hope you are all well! This week I decided to take my own creative adventure and create a painting from one medium- soft pastel. I love incorporating this into my mixed media pieces but I know if used on their own with the appropriate sub-straight they totally sing! Also I wanted to… Continue reading The witches’ apprentice
Hello, It’s been a while. I’ve taken a little break from the blog. I had my son come to stay and have been designing and planting a new garden. It’s been a busy time. I have still been creating of course so today’s note is a little round up of what you may have missed.… Continue reading Harvest moon
