Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year

Helleborus Niger 'Christmas Rose'

Hope everyone had as good a Christmas as we did and are looking forward to the New Year.
I'm hoping that this will be the year that I get 'kick started' again with my painting.

Sweet Pea Stationery

Sweet Pea Stationery

A new page on my website dedicated to all things Sweet Pea
- cards, notelets, prints and a booklet on how to grow them.

ACEO

I'm working on a range of ACEO paintings at the moment. This stands for Art Card Editions & Originals. ATC - artists trading cards have long been swapped between artists and ACEO are the same but made for sale. At 2.5" x 3.5" they make an ideal small gift and you can mount & frame them individually or in a group.

Robin

Robin, originally uploaded by pica pica.

This was my first bird painting ever. It took about 12 hours to paint and 3 hours to clean up the scan.
Painted using Winsor & Newton artist quality watercolours on RWS hot pressed paper. I use RWS paper as it is the whitest paper available and usually scans well.
View this on my website as a notecard. Ideal as a Christmas card or thankyou note.

Website

Fancied a change of colours to my website and this blog. Keeps the brain cells active working out how to do it.

The Rising Sun, Nutbourne

The Rising Sun, Nutbourne, originally uploaded by pica pica.

Pen drawing of The Rising Sun, Nutbourne, Pulborough, West Sussex.
One of a series of cards on West Sussex

Rose - Brother Cadfael

Rose - Brother Cadfael, originally uploaded by Maggie Goodsell.

Notelets of this watercolour painting of the David Austin English Rose "Brother Cadfael" are available as part of my Rose series.