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With using patterned paper as a background, then stencils, and finally acrylic paint on top. Just seeing what works, and what doesn’t…

Working on the cliffs idea – and enjoying it.

Had a good day. Although I did not get a lot of art done, I did plan my move into my new art studio. At the moment I do my art in my inside workroom – but I have to be mindful of mess and cleaning up after myself etc. It’s a space I share with our business, my sister’s bed when she visits, my husband’s clothes…
Not any more!!! By the end of the week I will have my art studio in the outside office I used to use for our business. It no longer suited, for all kinds of reasons, but I hope it will make a great art studio. It is not attached to the house, so I can just close the door and leave the mess if I choose to. And it will be a dedicated space, which will be nice. I suspect my sister will enjoy sleeping in a proper bed when she visits too 🙂

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I am starting to explore the local geography a bit more abstractly. Until now I had been working from photos of Italy from the air. I realised the other day that the land we have here – the green fields, the clear skies, the towering beachfront cliffs – is all unique and I should be celebrating it. So..

Here’s the start of a new series which alludes to, but does not replicate, the landscape I see around me each day. Lots of texture, layers, rubbing back and general mark making; all good fun.

10×10″ in acrylics on deep edge stretched canvas. For sale via Etsy.

This was painted simply as a celebration of the beautiful clear light we have here, and the wonderful colours I see at sunrise and sunset. Okay, so I don’t see sunrise too often!! But, just occasionally, I do – and it stuns me.

This photo has captured the texture of the piece but the colours are wrong, due to night photography – so I will redo the photo tomorrow.
This is a much truer photo – thanks to a lovely, clear West Coast day.

Well, I think this is finished now. The colours have not photographed very well – the real thing is a bit more blue toned and darker, but that’s the trouble with night light.
This is 4×8″ again 🙂