The night the crocodile eat the moon

Mmm Indian yellow

An old favourite on the watercolour pallet but a new addition to the oils, I am so enjoying its yellowy goodness. All in all I am having too much fun at the moment knocked off stride a little by half term but back to it next week. I am just having difficulty choosing and image for the East Cheshire Hospice art fair catalogue. It’s quite hard to pick just one image to represent your work.

Excited by pattern

I had a very exciting week in the studio (well Tuesday afternoon and a bit of Wednesday…that is a studio week for me). The work seems to becoming more and more about surface and pattern and I am enjoying it very much. I have 3 gesso panels on the go based on the shapes, patterns and colours of lichen on rocks. I like the panels and I love the smooth surface its helping me blend over some of the qualities and techniques’ I use in the monotype work.

I also had an exciting find at the weekend, we took the kids to the national history museum and they were looking at the gem stones in the shop. I was taken by some of the patterns on the Leopard skin Jasper or what I am now calling my Klimt stones. I have ideas lots of them. I may be in danger of starting so much work I never get any finished….we’ll see….Maybe it will work out because when I finally got round to ringing the local art centre about an exhibition (I was thinking next year)I found out I was look at autumn 2012. Apparently it has been very popular since our open studio exhibitions last May! I still have the East Cheshire art fair in October to work to but I think I need to explore other opportunities to show my work.