Kitsune: Or, the daughter of the Winter Queen and her fox.

Last night I ran away from the house and sat in my van by the sea and sketched, leaving children watching Harry Potter. Peace. I think I must take after my grandfather who would retreat to the chicken shed with cake and talk to the chickens. My van is like a mobile shed. The sunset beautiful, pale moon gold with big waves.

Today working away and sometimes it goes well and for moments I enjoy what I am doing but most the time it just won't look like the image that lives inside my mind. So I take a photo, to look at the piece in another way. And I think.

 

Dragons and Horses

A long list of things to do was interrupted by visitors today. Tea in the garden with hot crossed buns and apples for the four footed, then off they went, although they found the dragon van to be a curious creature.

 

Wild and windy, washing on the line and walking. Blue bells and the silver sea. And in between everything, painting and thinking.

A Short Winter Love Story revisited.

Playing with paint and sketching and film. To see the film of making the painting have a look at my youtube channel.

14.58 minutes of working, gilding a cheetah

One Cheetah, Nine Cherries

When I started this painting, months ago, I thought it was called 'One Cheetah, Eight Cherries'. It lay on the drawing board for a long time, something not quite right, until I picked it up yesterday, moved a paw, added a cherry and then it became 'Mine'. I have seen Elmo look at me like that when he has a mouse by the tail.

Yesterday and today

Yesterday was: walking by wind wrinkled sea, bluebells, squill, birdsong, stonechats, painting lions, takeaway fish and chips in the van looking out on fishing boats at Porthgain, jackdaws with coal black caps and bead blue eyes.

Today is: painting lions and gilding a cheetah, thinking of teapots and tigers, Japanese screens and tarot cards, calendars and stickers.

(18 month calendar, starting in July for 2011-2012, available from July with words and images. There will be cheetahs and cherries and bears and maybe dragons. They will be limited editions.)

Watching Red Kites in mid Wales

At Druidstone Hotel

The more time I spend in the garden.....

...the more time I want to spend in the garden.

With or without, car stickers

Available by mailorder online from Solva Woollen Mill. ( Will have to email to order at the moment as they are so hot off the press they are not yet on the website.)