THREE MORE UNTIL DECEMBER 3rd.

This Little Light of Mine

























Frieze
























Bird Walk

OOPS ! Posted this page on Photo ATC's by Mistake

I've been a long time completing these, although they don't actually take too long to make. It's just that I've been working on a couple of other more full size pictures which will appear on my regular blog, Flamblog.blogspot.com

This first card needs a word of explanation. David Hockney has produced a book of paintings called "Hand, Eye , Heart' . They are his impressions of the Wolds and East Yorkshire; his point being I think, that the light in that area of Britain is quite unique. Since I come from East Yorkshire originally, I am fascinated by these paintings. Since I am not what I would call a 'real'
artist, almost all of my full size paintings are copied from original paintings or photographs. To do this helps me learn how to produce certain effects.

In this one (below) I liked Hockney's bare trees, so I took a small part of one of his paintings and copied it, but not exactly, as the background fields are not the same as in his painting. I don't know if this would be called plagiarism, if so I apologize and will remove it. On the other hand, I believe that plagiarism is copying someone else's work and claiming it to be your own. I did this one because I really like the familiar scene. The book, unfortunately, I think is no longer in print. But if you like Hockney's work, try getting it from the library.

























A Bit of Hockney


























Victorian Lady


























Harmony in Red

























Blue Heron

Untouchables

Flames






















Bubbles

One of Each

One more Impressionistic...






















Water Lilies from a Monet

...and one old style.






















Entwined

More Impressionism

These three ATC's are snippets from full size Monet paintings. I took a small part of the painting and copied and adapted it, just to see what it would come out like.
These are the results. (My Titles)























The Windmill
















A French Pastoral Scene























View of the Mediterranean

Going Impressionistic

Dove
























Tree of Life
























Buxom Lass

More at Last

Had a lot of thing going on so haven't been able to get to my ATC's for a while. One of the things that was time consuming was the picture of North Landing at Flamborough which you can see on my other blog Flamblogger. Then we got new carpeting and that was time consuming also. We have also had company quite a few times. So now I'm hoping that I'll get back to doing a few more ATC's and a little more frequently.
























Parachute
























Rainy Day
























Petals

A Change in Direction

I have been wanting to do a painting (fairly large) of a donkey and fishermen from my village. I have pretty much given up painting with water colors, because I like to do very detailed work and my hand is not steady enough when using a brush any more. So I decided to do an ATC of a donkey's head with Prisma Colors and it came out quite well. But to do a painting , say 8x10, seemed a large space to fill with colored pencils. Then I had the brainwave of combining the two media. Now I am about two thirds of the way through and when I have finished it, which may take a week, I will publish it on my Flamblog, (see side bar for link) where I will explain more of what I did. In the meantime here is Dombey the Donkey.

Another Week's Work

Experimenting with white space on a couple of these. Need more practice at this!


Seaweed

Spiders and Snails


Grass, Leaves and Jars

A Week's Work

Lampshades



Ping Pong



Haphazard



Flowers and Vase

JUST COLOR FUN

Sunburst



Flower Ribbon

PUFFIN

Puffins can be seen at Flamborough Head when they
are nesting, then they go out to sea for the rest of the
summer. We did manage to see a couple when we
were there in June, even though the weather was so
bad and we were lucky to see any at all. But they are such
cute and comical birds.

Experimenting a Little

Carnival Colors


Green Shell


Red Diamond

A Little Bit Different

Cheetah


Paisley

BACK AT LAST

Been on vacation. Got my new scanner.
Ooh -- more expensive than I thought!
Been catching up on some school stuff
but here are three more and hope to
find time to do some more this coming
week.



Spring Rain



Humming Birds




Autumn Leaves

MORE ATC's

This will have to be the last for a week or two as my scanner has gone on the blink. I think the bulb has gone and since we leave for three weeks in the UK pretty soon, I'm not sure I'll have time to get it fixed. But I'll be back for sure! In the mean time check out my other two blogs noted in side bar, because I can keep these going from my camera. The scanner will have to wait.


Drops of Gold



Lace

I'VE BEEN BUSY!

Four more ATC's:


Japanese Mirrors



Blue Onion



The next two I posted on Flamblog by mistake,
so now they are in both places.


Wild English Primrose. My favorite wild flower,
along with the snowdrop, but don't think I can
draw snowdrops.



Harebells. They are on such fragile stems that
they really do bend over like this, especially in
the wind.

One More

The Da Vinci Code ---
Flamboyant, with no Meaning!

APRIL ATC's

Been a long time coming, but had to give my eyes a rest!



Restraint



Palm Branches



Beetles



Bamboo Leaves