some little blue paintings no 2

#12  Green and Blue  acrylic on plywood 20 cm x 20 cm

some little blue paintings no 1

Back in England.  A slight cheat with  a few small paintings made shortly before I started this blog
Simple colour schemes and brusque direct brush strokes. All very intuitive.

#11   acrylic on cardboard  13.5 cm X  15.5 cm

Apples in the sun

There has been a delay in posting and also a break  in painting. the last post was sent whilst we were still in Belgium and about to travel back to UK.  Then I did something a bit silly, and unplanned. Dreaming of escaping from a gorilla I threw myself out from  a rocky ledge backwards onto a sandy bank. But I was dreaming and it my bed, not a  rocky ledge and a hard floor not a soft bank.  Nothing broken though, but a bit of bruising and stiffness, yes. No painting for a little while. But here are three little paintings from around that time.  They are more like thoughts for a future painting

#7 apple. plate. sunshine abstract

pencil and watercolour  on paper15 cm x 15 cm

#8 sunny plate and apple

mixed media  sketch on paper 15 cm x 15 cm

#9 green turns to yellow

collage, acrylic on paper on canvas board

Autumn Leaves

Either this way up

or rotated through 90 degrees, which is the way it was made, and which you can see here

Either way it is "falling leaves" an acrylic collage on paper 15 x 12 cm

It is a little smaller that those I have published so far and is a response to the coming of autumn and the rattling and flying leaves in Parc Parmentier as they fly down to become compost.

Still Happy

#6  abstract 15 cm x 15 cm   acrylic on paper  "still Happy"

happy in my heart

#5  acrylic on paper  15cm x 15cm  "Happy in my heart"

#4 a yellow pepper

#4  a yellow pepper.      watercolour on paper   18cm x 12.5 cm

This is a quick sketch, with a Pentel water brush  of a pepper sitting on my table. I make many small paintings like this.  it seems i am not keeping up with my daily small-paintings BUT it is prompting me to start several larger works. So it is a productive process?  By the way, we have already eaten this model!

Another "not so good day" ?

#3a   15cm x 15cm  acrylic on paper

This too, I think, looks like a rough sketch for a bigger painting.   Another day I might try the bigger painting

#2a  15cm x 15cm , acrylic on paper

Looks more like a sketch for a painting than a finished work?
I realise that maybe I am not ready for a painting a day but will continue to try!  Let me know if you think I succeed?

ANOTHER FROM DAY ONE

#1b. 15cm x 15cm acrylic on paper

This is another small painting from my first day.  Not bad?  It makes me want to make some more of my big abstracts.  When i say big I mean 60 x 60cm - not HUGE.

Day One

A few weeks ago, in the middle of a long period with no painting, a sort of painters block, I came across an idea from an  American painter's blog.  Carol Marine's Painting a Day .  For around ten years she has painted a small picture every day. It did not have to be perfect and, because it took a short time, there was no feeling of failure if it didn't work - there is always the waste bin!  She found the lack of pressure helped her to revitalise her work.  Read her blog.
I thought I would try it too and so here I am, nervously proffering my first born.  The first few will be  abstract, but I shall also do other things.

 #1a. 15cm x 15cm acrylic on paper

I am quite pleased with this; what do you think? It took about 15 minutes, I did several others but think this is the best. I may post one of the others.