Love mist, it makes everything so magical. I like the silence it creates and the way it makes the familiar look new and different. Then there is the way it softens everything and gives you the sense that you are alone in your own little world.
I love the wild corners of Hotham Park. This is a lovely sunny place in the wildlife conservation area. The late summer colours are glorious with yellow ragwort, seeded docks and teasels. This is painted acrylic on a 70 x 70cm fine cotton box canvas.
I set myself the task of doing some sort of artwork every day for 2016. I guess a lot of them will be eminently bin worthy but at least it gets creativity flowing. This work in acrylic paint and collaged paper is based on the lovely carpets of leaves seen in the park during autumn….
Woke early and failed to get back to sleep so up at 5 am, went into my studio to paint the edges of my paintings and two hours later I had still not finished. There are always so many hidden things to get done before a show, things which people viewing will not notice or…
Yesterday I worked all day on my three thistle paintings here is the second one, done in time for my little Exhibition next week.
Number 3 of my thistle paintings, stage 1. It’s great to work on several painting together one can get a real creative flow going, stopping and starting can be so counter productive.
Yesterday I posted the first stage of the number 1 of a triplet of paintings inspired by thistles. I have 2 in progress now, here is progress on the first and stage one of the second,
I decided to abandon the last painting I posted on my blog and covered it with blue tinted primer to be reborn as something else. It will form part of a trio of works inspired by a patch of thistles in Hotham Park.Here is the first stage of one of them.
What a week! Last weekend we put up our annual recycle exhibition in the Cloudhopper Gallery and held our Wearable Art Fashion show. To my delight later I sold a picture from the gallery and because this left a gap in our display I did another along the same lines called Wabi Sabi Blossom Time….
What did Burns say about plans going astray? My planned calm day turned into an unexpected trip to Chichester to fetch prints which were supposed to be delivered yesterday and a flat tyre on the way home. In spite of all that I managed to finish this painting.
ritasspot, a blog about Hotham Park by it's Artist in Residence 