Karen Abend's "Happy new year challenge"
Today's prompt was a straight line with a curved one above it - here is my treatment. On Facebook many have also seen it as a head and...
Adult colouring sheet
Some of the adult asylum seekers at the Fir Grove hotel enjoyed colouringin the sheets I had brought for the children - I have drawn some...
The biggest creative gift
Tomorrow the January Challenge begins, and I expect to receive a daily creative prompt until February. This initiative began when Jo...
The Essence of Art
Today I have been killing two birds with one stone - trying out the watercolour paints I got for Christmas, and making a thank you card...
Silver jug
I noticed some of my family heirlooms looking a little neglected the other day, and decided to make them sparkle in time for the new year....
Twixmas
That strange time between Christmas and New Year has been punctuated in our family for the last thirty two years by the birthday of our...
Trying out my new paints
One of my Christmas presents was a set of watercolour pans. A compact plastic case opens out to reveal a wide range of colours (I've used...
View from the Fleece
The view of Lymm cross from the Golden Fleece offers a bacfkdrop of trees which is smore sympathetic than many of the buildings which...
Christmas day
After spending all morning in the kitchen, it felt good to be outside in the fresh air. We are not having a white Christmas this year,...
Christmas greenery
The little vase we bought on Colinsay, in Scotland, stands by our fireplace, full of cuttings from our garden, . The glossy red skimmia...