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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
Day 7 & 8 in #21daysinmyartworld - Colour Palette & Inspiration - posting about these two prompts together as they are generally linked.  I've never really worked with a particular colour palette but when I look at my paintings I see a lot of muted natural colours which makes sense as I think my inspiration mostly comes from being outside in nature - walking in the fields, visiting the coast, watching the sunset...

Edit: Just to be clear, this is a photo of a recent frosty morning and not one of my paintings (although I'd love to be able to paint like that). It's the kind of scene and the muted colours I'm currently getting inspiration from.

#paintinginspiration #beingoutdoors #mutedtones #frostymorning #winterinnormandy #colourpalette
A real frosty winter morning today!

#hoarefrost #frostymorning #winterinnormandy #baretrees #yikesitscoldoutside
Day 6 of #21daysinmyartworld and my Current Challenge is trying to find focus.  I have 'shiny object syndrome' and I want to do all the things and try out all the mediums, all the tools, all the different styles.

I suppose this is normal when you're learning and following your curiosity, but I find myself flitting from one thing to another and doing whatever I feel like at the time.  I think it's good to have the curiosity but I think focus would also be good so that I build up little collections of pieces that are in some way similar. 

Maybe this is all part of the process of finding the styles and mediums that suit you.  I'm still the new kid on the block when it comes to art :)

#currentchallenge #shinyobjectsyndrome #allthethings #justlearning #findingmystyle
Day 5 of #21daysinmyartworld and my Favourite Tool is probably this little sponge roller.  It pretty much gets used in every painting and sometimes it seems to be all I use.... Very handy :)

#favouritetool #painting #happyartist
Day 4 of #21daysinmyartworld - Art Book - Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life, by Beth Kempton.  I love this book.  It's not a classic 'art book' but the idea of wabi sabi seems to me to be intrinsically linked to the practice of art.

"The secret of Wabi Sabi lies in seeing the world not with the logical mind but through the feeling heart" - Beth Kempton

#bethkempton #wabisabi #thepracticeofart #perfectlyimperfect

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Shades of winter – a nature-inspired shade palette

What are your favourite shades of winter?  It’s been pretty grey around here recently but even so, it’s amazing how much colour you can find if you really look.  Even though we haven’t had a really cold spell or seen any snow yet (unlike a lot of the Northern hemisphere) Read more…

By Bee, 5 years4 years ago
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