The Wild Horses of Mount Ainos
One of the highlights of my visit to Kefalonia island this summer was my 'expedition' to Mount Ainos to see if I could find and photograph the wild horses of this mountain.
My Birthday Girl, a Watercolour Portrait of my Daughter and a process video
On my journey to learning watercolour, and while last week was my daughter’s birthday, I thought I would have a go at painting a portrait of her to surprise her, pleasantly I hope!
How I got my joy of painting back and learning gouache with Lena Rivo
About a couple of years ago I was looking for an easy and practical medium that I could use when travelling in our camper, so I decided to try out gouache as it resembled acrylic and oils in its opaqueness, which I was mostly into at the time. Now, you might think watercolour would have been the most obvious choice…
Colourful Seashells in Watercolour and Gouache
A while back I did a rough little sketch with watercolour in my little travel art journal that I really enjoyed making and recently wanted to try painting it on some good paper.
I made a colour chart using my Sennelier L’Aquarelle watercolours
I recently bought myself a yummy selection of Sennelier’s L’Aquarelle watercolours as I’ve become quite enamoured with this medium. (The majority of this stash of colours was a birthday gift – lucky me!!)
I painted my ceramic owl
Yup! That’s all that needs to be said! How do I know/decide how/what to paint them? Well, I often don’t know at first, so when I’m in dilemma as to how to decorate them I like to let my ceramic objects sit in front of me for a while, sometimes weeks, while I get on with other things.
I painted an old bamboo wind chime
Do you like wind chimes? I love them! I’ve had this old bamboo wind chime that I’ve been hanging on to and put on my ‘to do’ list since goodness knows when. So I am happy that I finally got around to doing it, and super happy with the result!
I designed patterns inspired by letters of the Greek alphabet and cured my creative block
Happily I completed my personal project to design patterns based on the capital Greek letters!
My love of the Greek language
As a child I loved learning other languages. But whilst I was brought up bilingual I never actually had a single proper lesson or any kind of instruction in Greek whatsoever.
The 100 day project and a return to blogging.
This was going to be my first blog post of 2021. But my previous post took precedence because when I was introduced to Baya Mahedienne’s artwork I was too excited not to write about it immediately! 😊
Discovering Baya Mahieddine’s iconic art
As I write this I am grateful for friends of a kindred spirit like Leigh, especially at a time of extended isolation and where friends I thought were friends have all but slipped away. This form of imposed isolation has shone a light on what is true and important, false and unnecessary, genuine and, well, what isn’t.
Portrait Painting: Despoina
This was a commissioned portrait painting. I was so excited to unveil Despoina’s portrait to her. This painting was also a sidestep away from my regular work as I applied a style I’ve been playing with for a while plus a shift to oils on canvas.
