My paintings on someone else's walls!!!!!!!!

I have tried selling paintings... rather unsuccessfully.
This week, my sister-in-law happily took Stephen's shed to her daughter in Christchurch and my shed will go to her place (don't we just ADORE her!!). Then, my friend Catherine saw the beach scene and fell for it - of course it was happily given to her.

Funniest thing of all - when I took Victor to visit Catherine he did not recognise the painting and commented on how nice that looked (BLISS).

Those were the best gifts some one could give me. I now have 2 paintings sitting on someone else's wall!!

Waves of obsession...

I know I said I was happy with the previous painting... well - almost. It still does not convey what I want to ... and to be honest it is very frustrating not to be able to express what I want to express. So... for the last few days I decided to focus on waves. Here are some pictures of my efforts (for the laugh of it)... It is still not there, yet, after some "dark nights", I feel there was progress. I understand a lot more about waves than I did before... and I will keep the practise going until I can do what I really want to do (if I get anywhere near a wave such as the ones painted by Susie Short I will be happy - that is the current dream!)

Sorrow

I first "saw" her coming out of the water, hair flowing long, sorrows past flowing away. Then, next time she came for a visit there was more destructive power, trailing water as she destroyed cities on her wake. Last time we met, she was sorrow, made of tears... I can't paint that... but I tried and maybe in a few years I will try again. For now I will keep her like this... I worked so much on her in the last 2 days I can't look into it any more... a lot of my mistakes were tiredness (I would like to think)...

Hekate

I started on Hekate 2 years ago after the fasting retreat... she started making sense this year and I have been working on and off on trying to give her face shape and to get better at doing waves. I am still not there, but it is getting closer.

Life Drawing II

After 4 weeks away I thought yesterday was going to be a disaster... but I am very pleased with the hands and feet - even the face...

Life Drawing

It may look as though I have not been doing much art this year... that is mostly true. However, I have been going to life drawing... it was a rocky beginning and some poses lead to an outburst of giggles - I fast learned that was not part of the "etiquette"...

Below are the ones that look vaguely human.

Art Class II - Shed the Sheds

Stephen and I did an art class on Sheds... our conclusion... shed them!

Top pics are mine, bottom pics are Stephen's.