Birthday Card Art

What a month June is for birthdays!  This year I've been painting cards for people I love.

Gouache & Brush Pen

Acrylic & Brush Pen

Solar Plate Etching

One of these birthdays took me to Paris but that's a story for another post.

Sketching Exercises

A while back I was fed up with my tight, fiddly work, so I pinned some very big pieces of paper to an easel and went to work with charcoal or Chinese ink. Putting my shoulder into it felt extremely liberating.

Venice Windows Watercolour

Watercolour 27.5 x 18.5 cm

Since I've been in a bit of an artistic slump of late, I've been tidying my studio.  I found this watercolour, abandoned two years ago, so decided to finish it.  I hate wasting paper.

The painting is too big for my scanner and it's not great weather for photography.  But it's done now and I can move on.

Editor's Note: I've replaced the original photo I posted as the colour was too saturated.