Where’s my mojo?? A bad back – my own fault, too much dancing. Winter in June – can you believe this weather!! and Wimbledon, all mean I have had a very uneventful week. However, it was brightened today by having coffee with two artist friends at the gallery where I am part of the “Eye to Cornwall” exhibition at the moment (see previous posts for details). It is very refreshing to get a different viewpoint from other artists and Gabrielle, by name and by nature is a real Angel. She has such charisma, intelligence and love, she lights up your day whenever you meet her. Encouraged by her comments, I came home, researched how to make my own canvases instead of buying ready made and started playing around with a newly discovered paint programme online. It is called ArtRage. http://www.artrage.com/artrage-demos.html . This link will take you to a download which gives you a whole month to play around with it for free. After working hard to get the exhibition pieces together, I realise the importance of play, new experiences with art, and taking time to try new things which are all working to bring back my “creative mojo”
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Perfect Day commission finished and delivered. Whoppee!!
There’s always a sense of relief when a commission piece is delivered and the client is pleased. I was really pleased with it and after two months of working on it, there is a huge emotional attachment to a piece of work that you have put your creative energy into. This excitement is replaced with major last minute jitters as the time for unveiling approaches. But …. thankfully it looked wonderful and they have an amazing space in which to hang it.
- “Perfect Day” A commission piece 110 x 80 cm
Doing a commission can be daunting, but after discussion about the types of style they liked and colour, I was given the freedom to paint what I liked. There is a growing trend of people wanting a piece of art to fit in with their scheme of decoration and commissioning a painting gives them this, as well as an original piece of art.
My Latest Completed Painting
Millook Beach
My latest finished painting is of a small cove down the coast. Not a tourist hotspot because of its abundance of round bolders . It is a storm beach on the Atlantic coast of North Cornwall at the end of deep wooded valley. My style is loose, and I have tried to depict the depth of sky and sea with lots of layered colour. The sea changes colour every second and this colour was embedded in my memory, a beautiful turquoise reflected from the stony seabed.
