On the other hand...

....when I do try to get a photo of William....guess what happens

Yep, you've got it

Wish I could have been quicker!

A busy few days...

Very predictable...if the weather is good, it's going to be busy - even if it starts quiet with only a few cars in the main car park at the seaside

3 hours later it looked a little different

 ~ and by 5 o'clock they all trail back home again ~

Wordless Wednesday

Rush Hour

Fun with mixed media

I'm having a play with mixed media at the moment.  A simple watercolour wash as background. Leave it to dry completely and then add Soft Pastels.  I have even added water to the pastels and they work like watercolour spreading across the paper....fun to watch.

and a couple of seascape versions of Lundy Island, well my version anyways....

What do you reckon, would these be worth making into framed

works for the Gallery?

Sketches over the last week or so....

loosely based on Ilfracombe Harbour,

I just decided to make it very basic and see how it turned out

....and this is what happens when I doodle whilst chatting on the phone!

This next photograph 

(yes I've sneaked in a photo)

should 

make 

you

 Smile

See....I knew you would

I tried sketching this, but didn't use a pencil outline first,

just used the paint to draw out the picture

- I looked for Shapes rather than looking at the subject for what it is -

then outlined in pen when the paint had dried

and finally I have done this next painting

from a photograph.   I won't show you the photo as it was

sourced from another Blog and I didn't ask permission first!

Shock!  What is that she says 'didn't ask first'!!!

Well, there is a reason, you see if the person

recognises this from the photo and Likes it, they

can have it as a gift. This really was a fun painting.  

I approached it in a similar way to the above painting, but

dropped a lot of wet-into-wet washes in.

 I have put it in a mount and clear cover

and if by chance it isn't claimed, I don't mind that either. I enjoyed painting it.

I'm Linking to Paint Party Friday today

with many thanks to 

EVA & Kristin for their hospitality

Have a great weekend all

*****