Sketches

I find sketching especially relaxing and try to do as much as possible, here are a couple I did before I did the paintings.

Relaxing Sunday

This is what I've been doing on my relaxing Sunday.

Relaxing Sunday
oil on wrapped canvas
15cm x 15cm

You Can Count on Me

Sheep are the such a lovely part of the countryside, quietly grazing, unassuming.

You Can Count on Me
oil on wrapped canvas
15cm x 15cm

The Journey

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

 Srikumar Rao

The Journey
oil on wrapped canvas
15cmx 15cm

Wimpole Hall Library

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and painting away or enjoying life in general. Something I vowed to do this year was paint regularly and am finding myself making excuses. I'm sure there are many who find that life gets in the way and cannot find the time or the energy to paint or sketch everyday. Everyday that I don't paint I feel so bad about it, even if I have a perfectly good reason not to. I know that I have been through some dire times in the last six years and still kept painting.
So, now its time to put those excuses away and enjoy what my heart craves for everyday.

This is a new subject for me, one I loved doing and found fairly easy, surprisingly .

Wimpole Hall Library
oil on oil paper

Anemone Heaven

I so love these flowers!! I paid a pound per stem for these at St. Pancras station, but worth every penny.

Anemone Heaven
watercolours  

Ebb and Flow

There have been times in the last six years of  painting when I have stopped painting for, maybe a few days or even weeks. I've often written to a good friend in frustration trying to work out why sometimes I just can't paint. She has explained it very well, I think, she reckons that creativity isn't constant, it ebbs and flows. To realise this does help enormously, it takes away the frustration and brings back a sense of calm. Knowing that in a few days I will be up and running again. Last night I was up and painting again after a week, it felt good.

Ebb and Flow
oil on oil paper
8"x 10"

Sunny Day

My son bought me these flowers so all plans to paint anything else stopped and what else would I want to paint on such a beautiful sunny day.

Sunny Day
oil on oil paper