Category: Challenge2014
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Winner of my fundraising draw……
…….is Julia!! Whooo!!! You may choose any postcard you like (see galleries here and here ), send me your address and I will post it to you! Thank you so so much to everybody who sponsored me, your support was amazing and helped to push me on to the finish! This is a thank you video…
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FINAL POSTCARD!!!!
I’m finished!!!! 365 watercolour postcards in a year, done! I was worried this day would never come. But now I am resplendant in my onesie and getting ready for a TV marathon on the sofa with Shadow perched on my bump. I hope you have all had very Merry Christmas’s and have an excellent New…
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Artathon Cartoons
Some cartoons for the final strait of my artathon… Artathon postcard 362 is for my physio Sophie (who I cannot recommend enough if you have muscle pain and live in Brussels- www.corpusnova.com) because she is distressed at her cats lack of pigeon chasing, 363 is for my long suffering boyfriend who I met doing a…
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Belgian Sightseeing
I had some friends staying last week and so my artathon was put on a bit of a hold, but I’ve been getting back into it over the weekend and taken inspiration from some of the things I saw with them. It’s nice being a tourist in your own country sometimes, you tend to appreciate…
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Cities from different angles…
Experimenting with a few different techniques for painting and inking cityscapes..
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A mish mash of cities and styles
One of my good friends is in Shanghai, so I’ve tried to paint a couple of the photographs shes taken, and I’ve been putting my Morrocco photos into an albumn (yes I still do this, an obsession I have picked up from my mother) and I’ve done one of them, as well as yet more…
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Streets near me , Ixelles, Brussels
I started an intensive french course last Monday, and so my artathoning time has gone down dramatically! But all the houses and streets near me are looking beautiful in the autumn light so I’ve had another go at trying to paint them..
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Autumn time..
The Autumn colours are coming out in all their glory at the moment! It was beautiful over at Chateau La Hulpe in October, and up in the Lake District last weekend. I’m still using the blobs – mainly because as well as giving a pleasing effect they are also quite quick to do which means…
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I’m up to 300 artathon postcards!!!
Only 65 more postcards to go and I will have completed my artathon! Please sponsor me via my JustGiving page – all the money goes to UNICEF which does amazing work for children all around the world. And massive thanks to all those who have sponsored me already!
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Father Christmas and cats.. and a shameless plug for Aladdin!
Some copies of Quentin Blakes Father Christmas’s , mine of Father Christmas being distracted by the family cat, and a shameless plug for the pantomime I’m in in January!
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