A New Year Dawns

Happy New Year All

Well we all seem to have got through another Christmas and we have a whole new year ahead of us.

As all ways on New Year’s Day I try to spend it in my studio printmaking in the hope to start the New Year in the way I would like the rest of the year to play out.

This is one of the mono prints I made:  A New Year Dawns 

 A New Year Dawns

Monoprint 

Jan 2013

So again I would like to wish you all prospers and creative New Year

Family and Friends

Well that’s a good start to the New Year my studio and myself were hijacked for the week. My wife and a friend decided that I was going to run an impromptu Acrylic paint texture workshop. It went very well and we had a lot of fun and ended up with same nice pieces each. So it goes to show that the best laid plan can all ways be retract at this time of year when you have friends around hahaha but its always nice and fun

Dry point (2" x 3")

Ed of 10

Third Tuesday of the month

Yay it’s the third Tuesday of the month, its art group Tuesday. A group of like minded people travel to one of the group’s studio and talk, work and share ideas have a really great shared lunch and have a good time. To day the owner of the studio Alison gave a demo of felting making lovely bright coloured hats them got us all to have go.

It was so much fun and well worth the two hours travel each way so now I’m counting the Tuesdays till the next art group day

Felt painting

(14" x 17")

Feb 2010

Alison giving demo helping out doing it for ourselfs

And again

Ok i found the time again today to do another soft pastel painting, so I was thinking if Im going to try do these all month I might as well try some new paper and some different coloured papers to get the most out of the practise.
"Mist on water #1"

Soft Pastels on burgundy Fabriano pastel paper (8"x 10")

Feb 2010

Pastel today

It’s been a good week been play with acrylic washes and acrylic flow painting lovely and messy but today I have been playing with my pastels again I seem to be enjoying them the more I play with them

Soft pastel on Mi-Teintes wrong side (10”x8”)

What a brilliant way to spend a Saturday get up late go to three different art supplies shop talking and buying art supplies come home have lunch, then spend the rest of the day sitting out in the sun in the garden play with my pastel some of the ones I got this morning, Just great

Soft pastel on blue Mi-Teintes wrong side (10”x8”)

Today I have been playing with my soft pastel, started out try different colours back grounds ended up doing this little landscape sketch.

Soft pastel on blue Mi-Teintes wrong side (8”x10”)