Suffering from serious self doubt. Writers always give the advice be a reader; that by reading you broaden the sense of what you want to write for yourself. Painting can be derailed though when you start comparing your work with others. Firstly there is the ‘it’s not good enough.’ feeling, which accompanies every piece. There…
Needs a perch
He frightened the garden birds away.
Source materials
Birds of all sorts are a bit of an artistic passion. Then there are hawks. I have no facility to keep a hawk here in the city, no experience and not much in the way of knowledge; but I have loved falconry ever since I was little. I have been lucky enough to go hunting…
Getting ready for an exhibition
We are taking part in Sherwood Art Week again next month. Tim is framing up photographs and I am felting miniatures and framing up larger pictures ready to go. It is a lot of fun making these. But we could do with a decent workshop.
The Crow Who Stole Daylight
The final picture has brewed for over a year, from the quick ink sketch to playing with Gouache. There is also a short attempt at words to go with it. With a flick of a wing feather, the raven threw the daylight up. He threw the all of it; the tightknit, rolled up, scrunched…
The story collectors
Playing with some ideas for a series of small drawings called the story collectors. It should fit with Hugin and Munin
Chasing the hare
And finished.
The Hedgespoken Winter Raffle
Source: The Hedgespoken Winter Raffle
Not so much a resolution as a promise
To get my pencils and paper out and finish telling the story.
Running
Finally, the snow hare has found his pose. It has been a series of trials to see how he would end up.
The forest floor
is a slow process to paint
