This is ‘Red Boots’ - #6 in my 20 paintings by March challenge, and the last of the frenzied 3. I hope I can keep this momentum up - but the days are starting to get warmer again here. It’s 33% outside, and I’m starting to feel very heavy and weary. Time [...]

Rainy Daze 122cm x 61cm Acrylic on canvas.
This was a painting that just had to come out. I don’t even like yellow usually, but it was speaking to me in some weird way. I’m really happy with this one. Not sure if I can part with it actually……

Now Christmas is past, all that pent up painting energy is having to spill out. It’s been making me a bit crazy and I have 3 big canvasses on the go to try and get rid of some of it.
The first one was finished today. She’s 122cm high x 61cm wide. I [...]

Hope your Christmas was a good one. Mine was filled with laughter - too much food and very excited children. Perfect.
Here’s my new one - #3 in my 20 by March challenge. ‘Through Rose Coloured Glasses’. Being an optimistic realist is preferable in my view.
Acrylic on canvas - no wax this [...]

Finished #2. Title: ‘My lover is locked in a tall tower’. I watched a great and very funny Australian movie last weekend and it was about lawyers - working hard and coming to terms with their morals (or lack of) in parts.
I remember years when I worked in big corporate buildings [...]

It’s a funny feeling being so close to Christmas - being so disorganised and somehow not panicking. In reality I have not done my Christmas Cards yet - I think I’ve done all my shopping, but I havn’t actually written a list yet so I don’t know that for sure, and I have yet [...]

I love big fat chunky canvasses. I just bought 6 big 2 foot square (6 inches deep) ones - to make head and shoulder scenes on. What fun!

The dark one will have a butterfly on it fairly soon, and the girl in front of the buildings is called ‘my love is locked in [...]

Finished!
Apart from painting the edges and doing my final coat of wax, ‘Lamb’ is finished.
I know what it means to me - would be interested in anyone else’s interpretation.
Lamb is #1 in my 20 paintings by March challenge. Hurrah!

It was impossible to sit still last night - so I spent a few good hours painting instead.
‘Lamb’ is almost finished. This is the point where I usually stop, and start distressing, then do some more over painting after the distressing has gone down.
The distressing always makes me a bit anxious. [...]

Thought I’d post my new painting 1/2 way through.

It’s been exciting to get back into the paint after a couple of days absence. The party went off beautifully, but left me exhausted and no time to paint during preparations dammit. Good fun though. Nice habit to get into.
I wasn’t expecting this painting [...]