A watercolour of the sun setting behind Dunkery Beacon, painted from the fields around our favourite holiday cottage.
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Monday Watercolour: Azores sailing boat
Re-starting my Monday watercolours…….
This is a traditional Azorean whaling boat, which I saw sailing in a regatta at Horta Sea Week in 2015.
Gonzo
Sometimes I get gonzo over words
Or struck on a view, a detail
Sometimes I need to capture the
Moment, view, emotion, ache
Sometimes I’m playing
Like now
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
A tunnel of Trees
An exercise in achieving an image with only 3 colours and simple strokes:
Abstract to image
The paper was sprayed with water, then powder paint sprinkled across. Where water and paint intersected, magic happened.
Then, I looked for an image and made a few tweaks to enhance it……
Walking on the beach
More watercolours of mine for a Monday afternoon……..
Bosworth Field
A gentle breeze billows the green barley
Sending waves shimmering from hedge to hedge
Elder and Herb Robert sparkle the field edge
Above the oak leaves do not stir
Near here a crown once hung on a thorn bush
Men struggled for cause, battle cries rang out
A King died alone fighting amid the foe
Violated in death, lost
Naked and broken the victors took him to town for display
Traitor they called him, an anointed King of England
Hunchback, wicked, perfidious
Name calling by the new regime
Murderer of children they whispered into the stream of history
A gentle breeze billows the green barley
Above the oak leaves do not stir
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
Cheese from the Cheesesellers wife
You don’t often see paintings of cheese, perhaps as part of a larger still-life, but these ones are the stars. The first is a Barkham Blue, the second a Yarg. Both fine modern English Cheeses.
You can find my Cheeseseller at http://thecheeseagent.weebly.com/
Caught
I am caught in the grip of wonder
The balance and symmetry of mathematics
The glints and sparkles of a spiders many eyes
The shimmering dance of subatomic particles
The everyday terrible beauty of our Earth
Look at the way a chickens feathers catch the light
Look at the reflections on that puddle
Look at how the road undulates ahead
How car headlights reveal different things
In the depth of the darkness
How light reflects to give
A rainbow in that roadside oil spill
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
Parrots
Another watercolour of mine….
