Challenge2014 – Page 4 – laratheescapeartist

Lake District

My parents have moved back to the Lakes up North in England and are so happy in their new home! I visited them for a couple of weeks last month, so I still have more paintings that I want to do of the area and their view especially, but here are my first few attempts..

View from the Shard

Last week I went up the Shard to check out the view. It was a bit of a muggy day so I’ve tried to capture that greeny brown smoginess in the postcards I’ve done of it.

Lucian Freud

I’ve gotten quite into doing these scratchy pen and ink portraits so I thought I’d try and copy a few from a master..

San Fran once more

I owe my friends Anj and Dom a painting of San Francisco, but I didn’t feel any of my previous postcards were quite right to try and do in large scale acrylic form. So i’ve done a few more and I quite like 173a, so I’m going to make a bigger version of it laterContinue reading “San Fran once more”

Australia Part 3: Brisbane and Fraser Island

Writing this while it’s absolutely pissing it down in Brussels and has been all week- I miss Australia!! Brisbane was my favourite Aussie city and Fraser Island was absolutely bloody gorgeous.

Holiday snaps

I have a list of things I should be painting in my postcards as long as my arm, but I’ve been feeling a bit creatively challenged at the moment, so I thought I’d try and loosen up a bit and do these rough and ready scratchy pen portraits instead.

San Francisco

After two weeks off up in the Lake District visiting my family, I’m now back in Brussels and artathoning once more. I feel like I’m just warming up at the moment and getting back into drawing again so I don’t think these water colour postcards are my best work, but no.156 has the potential toContinue reading “San Francisco”

Postcard to Painting – Gay Paree!

Gay Paree – 30cmx30cm Acrylic Painting

ARTATHON Milestone- 150 POSTCARDS!

Today I painted my 150th postcard! So only 215 to go then… HELP! For motivational purposes I’d love it if you could sponsor me through my Just Giving page www.justgiving.com/Escapeartist (Thank you so much to those who already have). These are my favourite 25 postcards so far..

Australia Part 2: Sydney and Brisbane

I’m using the postcards that I painted today of my Australia trip to replace a number of postcards I created earlier this year as part of my artathon (a challenge I’ve set myself to paint 365 postcards in 2014) and haven’t been satisfied with. It’s made me want to go back to Aus!