Had an utterly stupidly busy weekend and also a minor disaster. Finished a set of ATC’s, half of another oil portrait a small oil painting and this beach scene. This was from one of my photos taken back in January in Padstow, the sky looked nothing likein this painting.

I’m really enjoying doing water colouring again, after years of hating watercolours I’ve kind of found a way of using them that actually works. The background was just a few washes of different sky like colours. I then used some crunched up bog roll to add a bit of randomness then just flicked a load of paint on. Does the job.

The disaster of the weekend was that I destroyed £500 worth of carpet. I accidentally stepped on my oil palette and then walked down stairs. It looked like bigfoot had been walking through the house ! Opps.

On a different note I was really happy this weekend as I finally saw a woodpecker while out cycling.

Another set of lifeforms, this time sub aqua lifeforms, these were a lot of fun to do as I was deliberately doing back runs in water colour to create a veiny looking background. This is something most watercolour artists avoid but I really like the random patterns this creates. I’ve also got into splattering by flicking the paint brush at the paper which also makes some nice organic patterns.

On a completely different note I got the best bit of spam I have ever received today :-

Hi,

A two leg matrix, the left and right.
Just DO your wake leg and I
TAKE CARE YOUR strong LEG.

Thank you and regards,
Paula

Can anybody shed any light on what exactly Paula is going on about ?

A variation on the tubeworld artist trading cards, this time a more mechanical theme featuring different sizes of cogs. They are pen and watercolour on thick 300 gsm watercolour paper. The watercolour wash was meant to be water colour rust.