The Excitement of New Paints

Earlier this year I bought a really lovely set of Winsor & Newton watercolours but never got round to opening them as they looked really nice still contained in their packaging, almost like sweets or fancy chocolates. Today I finally opened them as I was eager to test out some of the colours that I don't have in my older set. Im glad I did as winsor blue (green shade) is amazing. It's quite nice to finally get to try a few series 4 colours without breaking the bank!

What I did at work today...

So working in-store for a well know art store means that occasionally we get to do 'out of the ordinary' fun stuff on duty. Today my task was to create some pavement art in order to get customers into the store. Armed with some jumbo chalk, short time and no ideas as to what to do, this is what I came up with! A colleague of mine suggested the text and yes people still asked if we were open on monday. I actually went out of the designated zone, admittedly I got a bit carried away with the bumble bee trail and hoped the other stores wouldn't complain. It still looked ok after many pairs of feet had walked over it (above).

The Love-Chord

I was kindly asked to contribute to the Something Fine project curated by Karys Rhiann, and I happily said yes. My contribution is about my second love in life - reading. What's the first I hear you ask? Well that would be art. They've always gone hand in hand for me. One of my strongest memories of them both is of reading a children's book at school and being captivated by the illustrations and the watercolours they were rendered in. As for a 'pictureless' book, I can remember age 9 spending a whole afternoon sitting in the corner of my room (possibly down the side of my bed!) reading for hours and that's what I wanted to capture.

Making a Colourful Mess

Experimenting when an idea pops into mind whilst tidying up inevitably means that I don't get much tidying done, and there's even less space to do actual work when I've finished 'messing' about! Above was an idea for another birthday card which didn't quite make the cut due to 'technical difficulties'.

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Handmade birthday card

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Work in Progress

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