Not The Kiss..but A Kiss nonetheless !

A close up of The kiss..mixed media on canvas .

Ive only done this kind of painting on wood before and it worked better than I had anticipated.I was quite nervous as it is quite a large canvas, I was going to do a flat acrylic painting for my mate Jane but I got sidetracked and started off transferring a pencil drawing onto the canvas with a fabric gel. I didnt know about transfers at all...and discovered hat it wasnt the best medium to use...after the fact of course! ...this took haphazardly and left raised gel areas all over the canvas ...so not one to waste anything I decided to have a go at a mixed media version so as not to waste the canvas and here is the result.

mermaid

Here she is before her new life in Alton, not Alton-by-the-sea but she has a good home wafting about in a different kind of deep water.....the kind that therapists swim in !

She has a mixed media background on canvas which worked out better than I had anticipated and which was great fun to do ,which only goes to remind me that curiosity is one of the reasons I love to be an artist.......I never know just how it's going to turn out.

Journal

my latest journal page.

'Salome'......... mixed media painting on wood. I like her shabbiness, she is quite textured and glittery which doesnt show up in the photo, anyway she is a first attempt ..so quite pleased with her really.

A Sigh and a Feather

A long time ago in a faraway place....

an angel fell to earth

and as she fell

she learned that

there is only Silence

when angels Fall

from the skies blue Grace

there is no sound

no Explosion of Anger

no shout of Explanation

only falling

and silence.

She learned that Disapointment

can be a cruelly Mute

Thing

that Stillness sometimes

carries disapproval

in it's Terrible Hush.

All she had

was the soft Rush of the wind

that she took for a Sigh

and one single

Sorry Feather

floating to her feet.

Sophie...Attic doll number two, she's been in quarantine...had the wax pox as well !

Im emailing the 'Teach' for some advice as Im onto the third one and really nervous about wax now.

Ive been busy

Here is Violet. She is a mixed media girl on wood, the kind of girl who's been spending time in the attic, forgotten, waiting...

She is my first girl made in an online class by Suzi Blu. Ive learned cool techniques but need more practise. I got right to the end of this project and covered the face in beeswax and it all went wrong..well her face came out in the pox! purple lumps under her perfect complexion.

All that work ..ho hum. well I rescued her face with some paint but back to the drawing board...literally!

Having fun tho with all things arty !