I have spent part of the day planning out how I am going to try and turn these 3 Photoshop’d photos into paintings. I’ve decided to crop the image tight, keep the colours clean, and work in acrylics. All going well, I’ll make a start on the 1st one tomorrow.
Author: Catherine Barker-Sheard
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13_165 : getting ready to paint
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12_365 : still messing round with photos
And still thinking about whether I can successfully translate them into paint.
I’m at the “hmm, what would I use; oils? acrylics? mixed media?” stage, so that means it is probably going to happen soon. Watch this space…Not for sale.
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11_365 : weird sky at night
Okay, so it wasn’t quite this weird!! We’ve had some strange sunsets and I couldn’t resist playing with a stack of sunset photos in Photoshop. I particularly like the weirdness of this one. I love the colours and would be tempted to try and paint it.Not for sale.
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10_365 : scouring the 2nd hand shops
Because I have entered the International Collage Exchange I am making lots of collage as ‘practice pieces’. We have a lovely second hand shop here in Patea called Memories 4 U. I purchased some lovely buttons and ribbon the other day. They gave me my goodies in a sweet wee bag handmade out of old wallpaper.Irresistable!! So I made this colllage using the buttons, ribbon and the wallpaper 🙂
8×10.5″ on distressed cardboard.Not for sale.
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Sad news
Our beautiful bulldog Meg went to the Rainbow Bridge yesterday to be with all the other Angel dogs.In April last year she was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer and we started chemotherapy straight away. It worked well and, except for one bad week, went without any real side effects.
Before Christmas we realised the treatment was no longer working and the cancer was back. We talked through our options with our vet and talked as a family – and decided not to try a rescue protocol as Meg had clearly had enough.
We have made the last few weeks as good as possible. Yesterday morning we fed her chocolate, told her she was our best baby, and cuddled her while our wonderful vet Rebecca helped Meg leave behind her tiredness and pain.
God speed Meg – my beautiful baby girl.
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