A couple of days ago I tidied my desk...that's a bit of a misleading statement as it will never be 'tidy', but I sorted it out, cleaned it up and found a few things I had mislaid. One was a bag of macaw feathers that we filched from Bird World last year, scrabbling with our fingers through the wire amongst the poop & dirt. I love macaws, and even their feathers inspire me with their irridescent colours. I painted a few of the smaller fluffy ones in watercolours, just for fun.
I also came across a couple of sketchbooks which had a few memories hidden away - here's a selection:
Alderney...
Alderney...
Fuiggi, Italy
Our old dog, Jasper, & an agapanthus, both sketched one summer in our garden.
Jasper asleep on the armchair.
Parrots - no idea where or how I did these but I am loving the central one's expression of bliss as he scratches his head!
An experiment...
St. Lucia
A hibiscus painted in St.Lucia and a hummingbird came to feed as I painted - not a great painting of him, I was too excited and trying to gt it down on paper as fast as I could.
St. Lucia, Rodney Bay
St. Lucia
St.Lucia
Another experiment in watercolour
Some vase of flowers or other!
I often say that I don't do sketchbooks, but that's obviously not true - I think it's that the sketchbooks are never finished, I just have numerous half filled ones.
And now all my equipment is set out where I can see it - better do something!
2 comments:
Lovely stuff, Caroline. The feathers are gorgeous.
I agree, I love the feathers! And you can never have enough sketchbooks, that's a fact.
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