Category: Nature
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The garden
Recently I’ve been messing around with oil pastels trying to draw our garden from different angles (I sketch from photos I’ve taken of the garden during different seasons).
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Leaving card
My daughter’s very nice substitute teacher is leaving as her real teacher is returning after a prolonged period of absence. She’s had this substitute teacher since the beginning of term and as this has been her first term of school, I think it’s going to be a bit unsettling. Tomorrow will be the leaving breakfast…
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Art Exhibition
8 years ago, when I was pregnant with my eldest daughter, I started painting a lot. I had just moved to Brussels to live with my husband and wasn’t working because I was recovering from repetitive strain injury in my arms that I got from my job as a Sustainability Consultant in London. I found…
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On the swing
My youngest daughter on her swing. We went to see the David Hockney exhibition in Brussels together so I took some inspiration from his Normandy landscapes and the way he does his brushstrokes (well i-pad strokes?!) for this watercolour.
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Malmedy Nov 2021
Ah, family holidays, always so relaxing! This photo pretty much summed up the holiday, grey skies but beautiful autumn colours in the valley, and two very uncooperative children! I did another version of the painting after speaking to my art teacher and listening to his advice on how to create depth with watercolours:
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More Wedding Table postcards..
Last instalment of wedding table postcards for my brother and his fiancée. Painting them has made me really want to go to Wales, and I can’t wait for the wedding!
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Wedding table postcards..
My brother is getting married in May and he and his finacee have asked me to do some postcards of their favourite places for the different wedding tables. These are the ones I’ve done so far (SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE AT THE WEDDING)
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