Loads of Stuff..........

Hi, am over the Pneumonia, but now have Bronchiectasis.  On the plus side am taking antibiotics which is helping with the nasty coughing..............so onwards and upwards, looking forward to 2015 being a healthy and stress free year...............yea, we can dream............lol

MYSTIQUE

Painted in Acrylics on Canvas Board 10 x 12"

Then had a play with a photo progamme and these are the results............yea love it.....

Inspired by the Digital Master Sarah Jarrett

Using Acrylics on Canvas Paper............glamourised and spooked a Modigliani favourite

You will have to excuse the next one which was inspired by Francoise Nielly...........this was painted in my journal when I was feeling like hell..........and methinks it shows............lol

Pretty Gruesome

These are all for Art Journal Journey and Paint Party Friday.

Am now some quick pencil sketches on drawing paper............

The Modigliani Girls

A mixed bunch

and last but not least a beautiful handmade quilted throw by my sister Alicia Nicholls which was my birthday present.......how lucky am I, very lucky.

Sorry about the loads of photos, but this is what happens when you have been away from your blog a long time............lol

Wishing you a lovely weekend and take care of yourselves, hugs Annette xx

Painting on Wood and Art Journal Journey

Hi, hope you enjoyed the weekend, its certainly turned a lot colder, so on go the warmer clothes and snuggles under the duvet with a good book..........yay.

Not so much to show you this week as this Wooden Icon (from Paper Artsy)  took me quite a while to paint.  Its in the style of Leonid Afremov, a favourite artist of mine.

Open

Closed

Its now been varnished and being left to dry

Art Journal Journey this month has the subject of 'Deep in the Forest' chosen by Sheila from Orange Esmeralda, there are already many fabulous entries to enjoy.  So here are a couple of mine..........

This is DCI (Detective Chief Inspector) Vera with her new recruit Barney solving a new case in the Forest  (worked in Oil Pastels).

Then went off on another loop as you do sometimes and created this................why I don't know except needed to practice and play........

Two separate pages joined together with Pic Monkey

They were both worked in Mechanical and Charcoal Pencils.  The left hand side, pink Stickles were added and the right hand side was drawn on a Gelli Plate background with touches of a white gel pen. Not sure what sort of animal he is but he looks kinda friendly.

The rest of my art time was taken up with making some adjustments to the painting for the Wedding Card last week, didn't like the chin/nose etc and also some sketching.  Am off now to view your blogs and see what my friends on Facebook have been up to in the Art World.

Will show these also at Paint Party Friday, hosted by Kristin and Eva.

Wishing you a lovely week, take care of yourselves, Hugs Annette x