Tag Archives: watercolour

Watercolour Sky

February 12, 2020art, beauty, poem, Poetry, watercolourpoem, poetry, sky, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

The image is built in a series of layers
First, a pale blue wash across the sky
Then, broad brush strokes of pale icy cirrus
With pen details of contrails crossing At the midpoint
Broken colours of cumulus, grays dark and light
Inky smudges along the horizon
All above a darkened landscape
Washes of Greens
Inked in hedges
Occasional highlights
Painting left unsigned

Reblogged from 2016

Painting: Aftermath

April 1, 2019art, Painting, watercolourart of living, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

A car left abandoned in a field:

Painting: My kind of Dragon

March 25, 2019art, dragon, Fantasy, Painting, watercolourart, dragon, dragons, Fandom, Fantasy, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

When I set about trying to paint a dragon for my good friend Larry, I was keen not to copy anyone elses dragons. This is what I came up with:

Painting : Valley of the Rocks

March 18, 2019art, England, exmoor, Painting, Poetry, watercolourart, exmoor, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Here is a watercolour view of the Valley of the Rocks on Exmoor:

Painting and Poem: Art for my sake

March 13, 2019art, Painting, poem, Poetry, watercolourart, Painting, poem, poetry, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Art for my sake

Brush in hand
I decide on the first stroke
Relieved to have got this far
Having chosen what to paint
Searching through ideas
Photos
Then mixing the colours
A bit of this
No, not that
Thinning, adding
Finally
Pausing
Contemplating the paper
That moment of peace
Stillness
Before I take action

Painting: Who’s looking at you?

March 11, 2019art, Painting, watercolourart, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

I’m re-starting my Monday posting of my art. Here is one my watercolour paintings that I often use as banner art on this blog:

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Painting: Mad March Hare

March 7, 2019art, Painting, watercolourart, hare, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Dancing more than mad……..

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Painting: Hey Mr Spaceman

March 4, 2019art, Painting, Science, watercolourart, astronaut, Fandom, Painting, Science Fiction, space, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

An Apollo astronut floating high….

….plus a bonus poem, this time about someone in a red suit:

Resplendent in red

She came to see me
Resplendent in red
Glittering with dust
Her elegant bone structure evident more than ever
Desiccated and dead
Spacesuit blown
Floating past the view screen
When I know we retrieved her from orbit yesterday

First published in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Associations print journal Star*Line 40.4

Painting: Sacred Stones

March 3, 2019archeology, art, Painting, watercolourart, Avebury, Neolithic, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Part of the Neolithic Avebury stone circle, in watercolour:

Painting: Blue Anchor Beach

February 28, 2019art, watercolourart, beach, exmoor, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

A watercolour painting of the eastern end of Blue Anchor beach, near Exmoor. This is where we have collected many fine fossils. Painted in 2016 — the rocks have been battered by further winter storms and are very different now.