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Day 18 & 19 in #21daysinmyartworld - Celebrate & From the archives:

This is a little bouquet to celebrate five years of happily making art :) This is from the archives of my first few paintings and I think it's the first painting I ever did in acrylics.  I like it because it's nice and loose and lively.  I wasn't overthinking things too much in those days :) 

#fromthearchives #celebrate #celebrateart #acrylicpainting #happyartistmovement
Day 17 of #21daysinmyartworld - Largest Painting

I think this is probably my largest painting so far.  It's about one metre square and is on a piece of board I found in the garage.  I think it also started as a way of using up paint in my palette and then it just got added to. 

I like the energy and movement of working on big pieces and I'd love an art wall to hang up some huge canvases and really let go with them :)

#largestpainting #acryliconwood #paintbig #happyartistmovement #inspiredbynature
Day 16 of #21daysinmyartworld - Smallest Painting

This is A5 size and is a little painting I did to use up the paint in my palette. I hate wasting any paint!  I like it because it is colourful and was quick and easy to do.  I think it's probably gouache but I'm not sure.  I'd like to do more of these little paintings.

#tinypainting #colourfulhouses #quickandeasy #zerowaste #fiveminuteartist
Day 15 of #21daysinmyartworld - How I name my paintings - Quite literally I think (this one for example is called Singing Moon) but I'd like to think of some more imaginative ways of naming them.  I know that @nicolanewman_  sometimes uses lines from her journal to name her paintings which is nice.  I'm going to have a look at today's feed for more ideas and also the blog post from @taraleaver

#howinamemypaintings #mixedmediaart #happyartistmovement #whatsinaname
Day 13 & 14 in #21daysinmyartworld - Process Insight & Sold

Process Insight - I don't have a process that I follow for each painting but I do create an environment for myself that helps me to relax into things:  it usually involves burning incense or essential oils, making a cup of tea, and putting on a podcast or maybe music. 

I often find I get into the flow better when listening to a podcast as my brain is focused on what I'm listening to as opposed to what my hands are doing.  It helps me to be more intuitive and not overthink the art.  My paintings are generally mixed media.  I often start with a collage base and sometimes (but not often) work with a sketchbook.  I generally don't have a preconceived idea of what it is I'm trying to create.  Maybe that in itself is the process of watching how things unfold and evolve.

Sold - Nothing yet.  I have never offered a painting for sale but if I feel brave I may come back with another post and a painting for sale :)

#processinsight #doitfortheprocess #artrituals #mixedmediamagic #incense #herbaltea #creativeambience #essentialoils #sketchbook
Day 12 in #21daysinmyartworld - Current Motifs - I'm not sure if this painting shows it too well but I often find myself drawing the same shape which is in some ways like a wave.  It starts by going up into a sharp mountainous point (blue in the picture) and then comes down into a kind of spiral (red in the picture) - I find this very same shape doodled in notebooks going back years and now am starting to see it coming out in my paintings.  I don't know where it comes from or why I draw it.  Some hidden meaning I haven't yet figured out :)

#drawingshapes #motifs #happyartistmovement #ilovepainting
Day 11 of #21daysinmyartworld - Turning Point - Probably the day I actually picked up this little travel pack of watercolours and started using it!

I don't know exactly how long I'd had it but I'm guessing years and years.  I think my mum bought it for me and although I really loved it and always seemed to have it lying about somewhere in my stuff, I had never actually used it!

But one day I opened it, along with my (also sadly unused) sketchbook, grabbed a jar of water and started painting - just tiny little paintings and if I'm not mistaken the inspiration came after watching a short video from @taraleaver (how to paint an imaginary landscape) and I suppose it's slowly grown from there :)

#turningpoint #watercolours #travelpaintbox #happyartist #whereitallbegan
Day 10 of #21daysinmyartworld - Artist Selfie - not keen on (or very good at) taking pictures of myself and I always forget to take my glasses off.  But here we are - Hello there!

#artistselfie #happyartistmovement
Day 9 of #21daysinmyartworld - Where the art happens - In one half of a spare room in the little cottage where we live.  The opposite corner has a desk which I tend to use for writing but sometimes also doubles up as an art table.  Feel very lucky to have a space where I can leave stuff out and it won't get disturbed...

#wherethearthappens #aroomofonesown #artspace #happyartist

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France

Swimming to Sweden and other adventures

It’s September and the lifeguards have gone.  Taking with them the bright yellow buoys that I have been swimming out to all summer.  With no yellow buoys to stop me I could just keep going all the way to Sweden.  It doesn’t look so far.  Land is easy to see Read more…

By Bee, 3 years ago
Tall trees and sand dunes on the Atlantic coast
France Photography

The wilds and wonders of southwest France

Back home to La Vienne after a wonderful camping trip in the far southwest corner of France.  As I often find, a picture is worth a thousand words, so without further ado, here are some pictures of the trip.  Hope you like them! If you’d like to know more about Read more…

By Bee, 7 years1 year ago
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Turn life upside down

I love to see things from a different perspective and standing by the pond yesterday evening with my camera in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, I realised how we can so often miss the beauty of a moment when we look only for what we Read more…

By Bee, 7 years4 years ago
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