Wisley in winter and street art in Bristol

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I've had a busy week with lots of meeting up with friends and family. I managed a walk around Wisley RHS gardens with my sister and was inspired to paint a picture to capture the winter colours.

I used acrylic paint, paint pens and ink.

We also had a lovely weekend with friends in Bristol and had a Sunday morning walk around the North Street area in Bedminster, looking at all of the amazing street art. Too many to share them all but here are a few of my favourites...

I love the idea of public art, beautiful, inspiring work free for everyone to enjoy. I hope you've found some inspiration too.

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a lovely week xx

Garden painting

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Today I'm sharing a painting I did over the recent long holiday weekend in the UK. It was inspired by the Place2Be garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, which was about highlighting children's mental health.

It was my favourite garden and I took lots of photos!

The painting has lots and lots and lots of layers...

I had a lot of fun. I must thank our Queen for staying on the throne long enough for us to get some bonus crafting days. Thank you Your Majesty.

Water

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A couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend with a friend for our annual painting treat to ourselves. For a few years now we've spent a day with artist Jo Sheppard gleaning tips and techniques to improve our acrylic painting. In the past we have covered mixed media techniques, abstract landscapes and trees. This year we were having a go at water. 

Jo always gets us started with colour mixing. We then used reference photos that Jo had taken to have a go at studies, with about 90 minutes for each one. 

My challenge to myself was to loosen up and try and use a bigger brush or a palette knife.

 

 

I could carry on tweaking but overall I was pleased how they ended up. Think I like the middle one best, which is weird when turquoise is my favourite colour and that's the least natural of the three. I definitely learnt a lot and am already looking forward to our painting day next year.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a lovely creative week xx

March printing challenge - week 3

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I'm a bit behind posting because I've only just caught up with the gel prints for week 3 of the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge.

12. Stars

13. Forest

14. Sea

15. Black and white

16. Layers

17. Green

18. Dots

I'm off for a bit more crafting while there's the chance. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day xx

March printing challenge - week 2

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Today I'm sharing the gel prints for week 2 of the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge.

5. Feathers - lots of layers on this one and some paint pen

6. Your initial - one of my favourite GiogioCraft stencils

 7. Transparent - sticky tape transfer

8. Cardboard - I deliberately used kitchen towel to blot the paint so I could get the ghost print dots to give a sense of movement

9. Book pages - wasn't very inspired for this one...can you tell?!

10. Tissue paper - two layers of ghost prints, scrunched for the background texture and twisted for the heart

11. Metallic - on paper with a golden metallic sheen

One last one for the #2022Marchcolorprompt challenge on Instagram. Week 2 - pink and brown

It's been a busy week crafting. I'm leading a craft class at a local museum tonight, but more of that on Monday.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope I have given you a bit of crafty inspiration. Have a really lovely day xx