Flagey – laratheescapeartist

Belgium

I’ve lived in Belgium for nearly 15 years of my life now, so thought I would do a gallery retrospective of all my paintings and watercolour postcards of Belgium: Acrylic paintings: Brussels watercolour and ink postcards 10x15cm: Before we had kids my husband and I lived in Ixelles near the Flagey ponds, so I didContinue reading “Belgium”

Etangs d’Ixelles

Another painting of my ‘hood, the Etangs d’Ixelles (Ixelles ponds) . Should have painted some swans into it.

Ixelles from Above, Brussels

It’s finished! And so am I for the week at bang on 5:30pm – laters!

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..

Another Brussels painting from a postcard

Making postcards into paintings

I’ve been doing some larger scale acrylic versions of my favourite postcards from my 2014 artathon so far (sponsor me here!)

Painting over an ex…very therapeutic!

I’ve run out of blank canvases so I decided to paint over this old one that I hadn’t ever finished anyway (it was of my first proper long term relationship). It took a lot of paint to get rid of him, but I quite like it!

The Challenge Begins…

Yesterday I was somewhat hungover and so I have only started on my 2014 ARTATHON challenge to paint 365 watercolour postcards today… For the first two waterolour postcards of the year I’ve painted my friends view from his terrace of the backstreets of Flagey in Brussels: I’ve got a few themes of postcards that IContinue reading “The Challenge Begins…”