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 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, I hope you caught the Hallaganza Lavinia stamps event and gained plenty of inspiration! The Faelight chronicles new release stamps for Christmas are beautiful! This is my contribution. Created for Lavinia stamps. You may find the Lavinia stamps video Here For the music version on my channel you may find it Here I’m very… Continue reading Dazzle
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, 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
