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.