Z leaves for Poland!

Finally I had to decide that this picture was finished, mostly as I couldn't leave it alone and was scared of ruining it.


It's new home will be in Poland! So with one piece in America (hopefully it'll arrive) and one in Poland I'm an amateur international artist!


That is quite a funny idea.


Yesterday we had Two French guests, one Belgian guest, Three Polish and ourselves, So international is the norm.


And this was French, English, Belgian breakfast on the lawn!

Sometimes

Sometimes, not smoking is really hard.

Thursday!!!

Finished?

Yay! nearly the weekend!

More guests arriving tomorrow, hadn't occurred to me to wonder whether Stefanie speaks much English before this moment...but thinking about it I expect she does very well...I think it's fairly usual to speak several languages in Belgium.


Tomorrow the kids break from school for a week as well, I just hope there isn't some big project handed out to do in the break...it's usually a wonderful learning experience for me, but I could do without the homework fight!


I'm really feeling the benefit of spending more time with my female gorgeous goddess friends...I am filled with so much love and a sense of peace just thinking about being able to spend time with them...I remember writing little prayers for this in the hopewitch blog a couple of years ago.


Whenever I consider what I have in my life it occurs to me that I have what I asked for previously with my heart.


Halcyon Pink has been inspired to flow with the idea of being an Inner-Activist and it's truly how I believe we can change any state of reality. I look forward to his musings and am grateful he is as inspired, sharing, watchable and sexy as he is...(and of course, Huggable)


Ok, big kisses for now

Wednesday!!!

So how cool is this...Posting two days in a row, and I had work time two days in a row as well!
New picture of z in two days...feels quite quick, still about ten hours so far, and still learning how to acheive depth and shadow more effieciently...can only keep practicing I guess.

Finally got to art class on time, only to find out it was cancelled!

Med arrived last night to stay for a week, so hopefully it'll add to the holiday sensation...and I'm out to dinner tonight with the girls.

Quite the socialite at the moment, what with London trips, Jazz nights and dining out...all with other women which is deeply wonderful. I feel so good when I get to spend time with the gorgeous women I'm lucky to have as friends and sisters.

Hmmm, I really like this picture, not 100% sure it's finished, and I feel unsure about the level of difference I see between my drawings and the original pictures...kind of 'If they're so different are they getting better/ good enough/ do they convey the person?'

The best I've seen likeness wise was z's second pic, hmmm.

Tuesday!!!!

I'm happy happy happy and excited.

I have work time, right here and right now...not later, not something more important that needs doing, but right here and now.

I have some pictures chosen...I'm here to mail them to myself as I'm using the lap-top to work from in a minute...but it's much slower than this so posting comes first.

I've been craving to draw for days, seeing pictures in my head and feeling my hands itching for pencils, weird and wonderful!

And I'm happy and excited because I finally got to post off the drawing/painting of C to America today. That felt sooo good. Great big tube for such a little piece of paper though! I'm so happy I feel like it's me getting a gift...I'm even waiting for it to arrive! I really couldn't be happier.

I found that when I did Z's pictures for my friends, I was so excited for them to be seen...they were a little harder to let go of as they were the first. Every time I looked at them I was amazed at what I had done, and they were based on such beautiful photos.

On and on, want a new one, it's a bit like suddenly having more babies and children to love, quite strange and amazing. I wonder what it's like to draw peoples pets, whether you suddenly find yourself liking animals more.

Ok, enough mad rambling for now

Big kisses.

How cool

How cool (and pretty) is this section of one of my mum's pics?...I love it and am very tempted to have a go at drawing it, but I'm a touch hesitant that it may drive me loopy. Could be a wonderful lesson in patience.

Quick start

Tree house, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, Mum's pic.

My mum and Ed have been visiting, so now there are hundreds of pictures, days worth of blogs to catch up on, and I didn't even tell you about my day in London yet. (It was incredibly gorgeous, relaxing and magical, not how I remember London at all!)


There's so much I'm all excited to be sat at the computer!...and I've fallen for the new google page Mark set up for me...I have to leave an extra tab open because I like it so much...I'm really not quite sure exactly how sad that is, but I'm smiling anyway so who cares?


more later

Big kisses.

Happiest accident

So these are photos of the finished picture...It was much more difficult than I anticipated working with the black paper, and once I reached a stage of giving up I began to play with oil pastels along with the pencils...finally here at the end I find that the pearlescent effect is intriguing with this particular image, as it allows the light to truly appear to be reflecting on the wet sand, glowing from the sky etc. in a way that gives this little picture some wonderful sense of life.


I have a particular soft spot for watching my children in this kind of light...that reflected from sand and/or water for some reason is quite magical to me...so here, in the end, I'm really quite taken with this drawing/painting as I was the photograph.

Lovely.


Now I just have to get it to America in one piece!