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
Hello friends, still hot here. Not at all like Autumn. We are building decking and are wrecked in the heat. This week’s project harkens back to the days of cool autumn mist and spooky goings on! It uses some of the recently released new Coven of curiosities stamps from Lavinia stamps . You may find… Continue reading ‘Hallowmere’
Hi there! It’s September already! Where did this year go? It’s starting to feel a little cooler thankfully. I love Autumn! Time to create new landscapes for the season. You may find the YouTube tutorial Here This is one where you can go to town on the layering and gradually build up the range of… Continue reading ‘Fall’
Hello from a very hot Spain! I’m looking out to the field next to my house where tall grasses are being bleached by the sun. No flowers, but beautiful non the less. I love creating meadows so I’ve incorporated the essence of what I see into this rather more colourful scene. You may find the… Continue reading Meadow grass
Hello friends! I hope you are well. Well today is hot! 38 degrees Celsius ! We have the fans going and blinds down! Feel really sorry for anyone who has to work outside! For this week’s project I had a request from one of my lovely YouTube members to create something with a beach and… Continue reading ‘Me time’
Hello everyone . I hope you are well and feeling creative. I had to take a break last week as at last my kitchen was being installed. I have been without a kitchen for nearly 4 months now but it is very nearly finished. Just a few more days now. Today the work tops were… Continue reading Freedom
