Month: May 2013

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Painting news….

Another painting done and dusted! This one was requested by my son. He was quite taken by the pink ‘islands’ effect in ‘Wild Thing’. This is where I use old dried up acrylic paint from my pallet in my collages. My only brief was the atlas opened at the pages of South East Asia – nothing else! However, a few adjustments were made on the way with this one, following discussions on its progress! I am really pleased with it, as is Ross…….(I think….I hope!).

i am really enjoying this Collage malarkey! It’s…..liberating…anything goes, and what doesn’t work you just cover it up and redo it! I’m really loving using the ‘light moulding paste’ through stencils, as in the birds of this one, and ‘Cats A Sleeping’. I like the paste left white, It gives that sort of chalky flakey effect.

Anyway, see what you think. This kind of art is very subjective, as its so different. But hey! Marmite’s a best seller! And I have to take my 2 pieces of artwork to be submitted to the Guildford Art Society’s Exhibition on Tuesday.  I am putting in ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Autumn Glory’….for £150.00 each!! (I’ll be bringing them home again then!)

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The poor little wounded soldier

The poor little wounded soldier

Here’s the little girl minus one eye. We all feel so sorry for her, especially as she’s not long had an op for breast cancer. And then a stroke about 3 weeks ago. As I said, a poor little girl, but on the mend now.

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The big outdoors

So. I have let them out. Not really happy about it, but it really can’t wait any longer, afte what poor Bessie has been through. One of the cats must have caught her right eye 2 or 3 weeks ago, which has resulted in her having to have it removed a couple of days ago. She has been treated for dry eye initially, then the infection set in, which caused her inner eye to poke through her outer eye – really painful for her, then while this was being treated, which involved a very delicate (and expensive – thank goodness she’s insured) operation, one of the cats caught the eye again, and made it bleed and undid all the work that had been done. Having her eye out was the only option, and she has been on the up since! Obviously not in any pain now, thank goodness.  Then there is the problem of keeping the 2 very bored cats away from her eyes, so letting them out seemed the only answer. And they have been having a ball! I, on the other hand have been like a cat on a hot tinned roof! Tonto, the wussa cat out of the two, has turned into an adventurer and wanderer, and Yoyo seems more timid and running back to the house periodically.  I shall keep a close eye on them! 

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Hello peeps! Been a bit busy of late,

Hello peeps! Been a bit busy of late, but I’m here now with 2 new paintings under my belt. One, called ‘Urban Nights’, I painted for my nephew (at his request), As he has not long moved into his own flat. He wanted something colourful – that was the only brief he gave me!! I figured he would probably pref not to have a whimsical lady on his wall, so I decided on focussing on his home city of Southampton,  by collaging a map of the area of Southampton where he lives;     also a S’ton post mark, and some city scape photos of office blocks ( I  actually took at Canary Wharf!). Anyway, he is seemingly very pleased with it. I particularly had fun with some ‘clear tar gel’ I coloured red, and strung it along the roads on the map, which gives a raised effect great fun!

The other painting is of YoYo and Tonto!  I’m actually really pleased with this; I like how the colours have come out. I can only imagine a cat dreams of mice and birds and fish…..(not that either of them have ever seen a fish or mouse – and only birds from the window!). I used a ‘light modelling paste’ pushed through stencils for the white birds, which makes them look like plaster, and again, with a raised effect. I tried to emulate spots as much as possible, as that is after all what makes an Ocicat! 

Hope anyone reading this (can’t imagine anyone does!) likes these new paintings!

as for the cats…well they are fine……bored, but fine. I WILL let them out some time soon! They sit looking out the French doors a lot of the time.  Coco, (our tortoiseshell) has done her bit for the BBC programme, ‘Horizon’. She wore her tracker collar like a good girl, and apparently did venture about a bit, so they told me! The bebe also came to the house to film her and the Oci’s. that was a busy week- taking and picking up the collar from the village hall each day! But fun. Look out for the programme in Sept! 

oh yes! I am putting 2 of my paintings in the Guildford Art Society’s exhibition in a couple of weeks. The 2 I am showing are ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Autumn Glory’. I have to do 2 x 3hour slots working there as a contribution to the exhibition, so this will be a new experience for me! Bet mine don’t sell tho!  I just love to paint now I’ve found collage.