Ouseburn Viaducts

 Ouseburn Viaducts

(Acrylic on canvas panel, 30x30 cm)

I slumped a little last week after my paintings of Staithes were rejected from a national exhibition I'd had real hopes of. I then had to scrub out several days work on a painting that I realised simply wasn’t going to work.

What do you do when that happens? You start painting again, of course, and if you’re lucky, a giraffe turns up.

Butterfly Vase

 Butterfly Vase

(Acrylic and collage on watercolour paper, 12x12 in)

Following another online prompt from Este MacLeod, I made the butterfly and then had to find something to do with it! It became quite a struggle.

I made the butterfly by simply folding paper over some paint and ink. After I'd cut it out, I stuck it to a sheet of watercolour paper and made everything else up. The red-brown vase is another piece of watercolour paper I used to clean my palette. The green leaves I found online.

Snails on a Cloth

 

Snails on a Cloth

(Acrylic on paper, 20 x 18.5 cm)

Something to distract me from pictures of Staithes, this resulted from an online prompt from Este MacLeod. Maybe there should have been some ladders too?