Uniqart
Original paintings, hand-made jewellery, knitted stuff and anything else I try to create. Contact: c_bletsis@yahoo.co.uk - All art works remain the copyright of the artist and cannot be reproduced without permission
Thursday, 14 August 2025
Bear 719...
Back to painting bears again - this is bear 719 who lives it Katmai National Park, Alaska. This has been painted in watercolours on paper and is a private commission, which means I am free for commission if you are interested!
Sunday, 3 August 2025
First Look...
The book will be on sale next month - keep your eye out!
Thursday, 24 July 2025
I'm Still Here...
Apologies for not posting for over a month - I really have nothing to show, despite working away at various projects over the past weeks. I've just completed a painting that I am very proud of...but can't show it as it is a surprise birthday present for someone. The birthday is in December, so I am going to have to sit on it for months...
I've been knitting and crocheting things for Nudinits - again, can't show them for a while.
Hopefully my next painting can be posted on here!
Other than the above, I've been struggling to keep the garden going throughout this heat - it's definitely not doing as well as previous years. No courgettes this year, the plants withered and died before reaching any size. Runner beans - lots of leaves, very few flowers. Tomatoes- slow to get going, we should have some soon. Greengages - absolute glut of them, I was giving them away in the end. We've had jam, crumbles, chutney, frozen some - best year ever for those. Blueberries - small and shrivelled due to lack of rain. Gooseberries - eaten by the birds. Raspberries - pretty good, but over now. Cucumbers - getting a few of the mini ones, which are tasty. Pumpkins - first time growing them, three plants in the front garden which have gone a bit mad - thankfully they are the mini versions and we should have at least five or six come the autumn...if they don't get stolen!
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Bedroom...
Once the shelf was ready to go up, I then had to paint the wall - I had chosen a dark green and wondered if it was actually going to look good or perhaps make the room look claustrophobic. Thankfully once I had painted it it did look good! The other three walls are a very pale green/cream and took several coats in order to cover the extensive stencilling that was there.
We then realised that the deep pink curtains we had were totally out of place - which involved a trip to Ikea where we found the perfect curtains in green check which of course needed taking up as Ikea curtains are always about 7 ft long! I also found a couple of matching throws and a shoe tidy...
Books needed sorting out, some had to go to the charity shop, the rest fitted nicely on the new shelf/ I had to go through a lot of my bits and pieces and either tidy them away or throw them away.
All that is needed now is a new headboard - Mr.B has that lined up as a future project. But for now, I am very happy with our new smart bedroom.
Friday, 6 June 2025
Foxy...
Despite being up to my eyes in gardening, decorating and various other distractions, I managed to squeeze in a little watercolour last week. This is a study of one of the arctic foxes we saw at Wildwood a couple of weeks ago. Very hard to get the fluffiness in paint!
I'm currently free for commission - please ask me to paint something on paper and save me from having to paint walls!
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Bears...
Yesterday we went to feed a couple of rescue bears - what a great day! More when I have sorted out the many, many photos we took.
Monday, 28 April 2025
Poppy...
It's always difficult to paint a black dog, but even harder to get a decent photograph of the finished painting if it has been done in acrylics. Mr. B and I have taken several photographs of this one, and it always came out peculiar with the camera picking up the white elements of the painting far more than it should. We tried our phone cameras and a digital camera, and this is the best we could come up with and even this one has been tinkered with on Photoshop in order to calm it down a bit. Very frustrating!
No commissions for the time being - I am spending this week doing a bit of much needed Spring cleaning, trying to get the garden sorted out before it becomes a jungle, and hopefully painting a bear on the garden fence...