but learning new skills is a way of keeping your brain healthy. I decided to move my domain to WordPress…
The Pandemic ….continued
At the beginning of the covid isolation, I was working on my stitch mediations.I had seen a post by another…
How has your Pandemic being going?
Up to now I have been active in a creative sense. With my husband working from home, I don’t like…
Am I a artist, a quilter or a Hobbyist?
Deciding what group I belong to. Am I quilter, artist, hobbyist or creative.
Saturday Morning Classes at Camberwell school of art and Crafts
How I got to college
I was not a child prodigy Ha Ha
How I came to be an artist rather than the scientist I wanted to be.
I will be back in the New Year
Just a quick post to say I will be back in the New Year after an 18 month break. My…
last post of 2016
round up of what I had been doing art wise since my last post. Included painting, sewing and mixed media
End of very bad year but I suspect it will only get worse for 2017.
So the end of the year is fast approaching and its been 3 months since I wrote on here. Unfortunately…
inspiration lost
This is not going to be long post as basically I have not done much in the 2 month since…
Bobbin Lace
Has taken over my creative juices it seems which means I haven’t actually been painting as I intended this month.…
June 2016 – gone in a blur
Well, not much has changed since I last wrote other than I have started to learn how to make bobbin…
And the struggle continues
and I don’t know why. I have lost all enthusiasm for everything. Working in the studio is a chore. I…
Struggling
I am struggling at the moment. Ever since returning from London which is about 5 weeks now, I have been…
Trip to London
I started this blog post about 2 weeks ago and never got around to finishing it. Text in blue will…
Finally finished December BJP 2010
this is the last in this series of works which I started in 2010. I ended up with bead fatigue…
Plein Air Austin group at 43rd Street
Much of the beginning of the month was not very creative as I was scanning in old photos for my…
just enjoying creating at the moment
This year has started out very well so far. I have ensconced myself in the studio most days and have…
New Year and New Work
This has got to be first for me, completed a piece (only took 5 yrs), started a new work and…
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable…
24 days of advent
I did not work on my main project that I revived last month as I knew I would have little…
Depression and creativity
Well, its been a month since I last wrote and slowly the depression I was suffering from is lifting and…
In an artistic slump but the weather is cooler
I have nothing new at the moment. I briefly sketched today but a wasp drove me away. It was meant…
Jump start your watercolour
I should start by saying I would not teach as I know I cannot teach. A teacher is a very…
time for a quick sketch
Notes:9/16/2015 time 4.20pm No network connection About 87c Time for a quick sketch before I get burnt. Time: 4.47 A…
Before you leave, check everything is in the bag
Notes:9/15/2015 12.24pm 82f feels like 88f 27c feels like 31c cloudy with a slight breeze 10/15 mph SE Ventured out…
A small break due to heat!
This is was only effort this week and I was not happy with it. I tried watercolours again and failed…
still plodding away
When I was kid, the headteacher at my primary school, described me to my mum as a plodder. Not a…
Shade under a bridge
Notes: 1st September 4.00pm about 95f Totally unprepared today, forgot my glasses & phone. Standing under a bridge for shade…
a little night time stress reliever.
Notes: sketch # 16 11.23 am 84f feel like 85f 28c feel like 29c Slight breeze. Thought I would come…
view from the window
Notes: 3.30pm 8/27/2015 Sketch #15 Approximate temp 78f Thurs is watering day which is 3 hrs of shifting water hoses/sprinklers…
Sketch #14
Notes: Sketch #14 8/26/2015 10.52 84f feels like 90f 28c feels like 32c found a nice shady point facing the…
Sketch 12 & 13
So I have been a little lax in with the sketching over the last few days. I managed to push…
Heat and tree fagitue
This hit me on Wednesday so I didn’t go out sketching and then about 1pm I had a call from…
Today there will be colour
My notes for today: “sketch #10 9.17 am. 27c feels like 29c. 81f feels like 85f. Although it is slightly…
Not a good day for drawing
Today’s notes “sketch #9. 9.01am 77f feels like 77f. 25c feels like 25c . Thought it would be cooler today…
Pflugerville Watertower
Can you see it? It just visible at the top of the trees on the left. Haha My notes for…
Today’s sketch is mainly ……..
Miss yesterday as I just couldn’t face up to the heat but made sure I was ready for today by…
Memorial to Pflugerville’s Fallen Warriors.
First sketch in nearly a week, already slacking! Had a great trip to San Antonio where we visited the McNay…
Foliage and drawing
How do you do it? Today was my 4 day of drawing in the park and I will be honest…
Life intervenes and suddenly 4 months has gone by
Wow, making that matchbox museum piece seems so far away and the intervening months have been crazy. Just after my…
Matchbox Museum entry
So I reworked my matchbox entry and returned to my bead embroidery skills. I did have an idea of making…
Almost back to square one
as the piece I was working on for the Matchbox Museum turned out to be too big to be folded…
The fog is beginning to lift.
About 2 weeks ago, I realised I was pretty depressed. I have been struggling to do even the basic things…
The New Year is a knocking
and although I have been working on my painting for the last week, I did not finish as I planned.…
I am working on this
and not very well. In fact it would be more like working on avoiding this painting. I am…
Tonal drawing of flower fabric and small Buddha figurine
Its been a while since I posted partly because I keep forgetting to bring the camera cable down stairs plus…
Battling with drawing
Drawing has always been a struggle for me and the older I get the harder it gets. My eyes no…
Never be afraid to say what you think
As we were going to bed last night, I passed my most recent still life painting and say how happy…
