Challenge2014 – Page 8 – laratheescapeartist

Newcastle.. the toon

These are two postcards of the ‘toon, inspired by my Geordie friend Haty, who does many entertaining podcasts on training and fitness (which you would think would go over my head given my inability to lift anything whatsoever but motivation wise in terms of doing anything they are very good: https://www.facebook.com/PodcastingBro )

Artathon Milestone – 50 POSTCARDS!!!

Today I painted my 50th postcard! So only 315 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 Top Ten postcards so far..

Hockneys Pictures

I bought the book ‘Hockney’s Pictures’ published by Thames&Hudson last year and its BEAUTIFUL. Looking at the pictures gives me that deep contented feeling and I love some of his quotes about art e.g. ‘ I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an artContinue reading “Hockneys Pictures”

Goesnes.. deep in the Ardennes

Last weekend I went to Goesnes (pronunciation unknown so we went with Go-easy-on-us) with a group of friends, so todays’ postcards have been inspired by the somewhat bleak January landscape of the Ardennes…

Brizzle kicks

I used to work in Bristol and so today my inspiration has been Bristols classic landmarks… I’d also like to thank Katie for sponsoring me on my artathon who requested a Brizzle postcard!(I will also paint that one of us crazy accountants on a night out though!!)

A mini bit of Europe.. (Belgium and Amsterdam)

I liked the way my Luxembourg postcard turned out yesterday, so I used that technique (doing splotches of watercolour first, then outlining with pen) for these ones too.

More Shanghai..

I had to rest my arm yesterday because it was really hurting again and I cant think why which is the most disturbing thing. But it’s feeling all right today so I did these two postcards of Shanghai. (I lived in Shanghai for 10 years hence my love of drawing the place)

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