Words in Progress

I collect inspiring quotes ... here is the inside cover of a book that I'm collecting them in:





... more to follow as I fill up each page :-) BTW, the silver bits on the first picture are some groovy stickers from a local craft shop which I added some colour to.

Ouch ...

Picture of Pain

Several months ago I was in off work in *immense* pain (all better now, thanks :-) and decided I might as well try some art therapy to take my mind off things ... so I got out my watercolour pencils and started drawing my pain. Funny thing is that I thought it would be much darker than it actually ended up being - weird ... mind you it's a bit like when you try to describe pain, it kind of gets diluted along the way.

Lively Lily

Colourful Cala

This took a lot of patience :-) I made sure I stopped before I got the urge to run around the house screaming and ripping things up ... not quite sure whether it's finished really but I'm a bit wary about going back to *that* place ;-)

Dance me to the end of love ...

Embrace your junk-mail

This is a bit of altered art using a fab picture that my bank was kind enough to send me in an effort to try and sell something to me ... can't remember what it was advertising ... don't think they offer dance lessons ;-) So anyhoo I just added a fringe of colour around the sides, traced the edge of the dancers with a gold pen and then stamped a line from a Madeleine Peyroux song around it. Makes me smile every time I look at it, which can only be a good sign :-)

Slight Return

Blue Cushion

Yay, I'm back ... again! I have a glut of photos and arty stuff to post so bear with me :-)
The painting above was inspired by this photo of a silky cushion I saw in a magazine:


cushion source

I did it in watercolour pencils first and then *painstakingly* went over the bluey-green bits with a watered down blue metallic paint. I'm please with how it turned out but it's definitely one that looks better from a distance :-)