Monday 30th June, new image and blue tits

A dryish day, rain came later in the afternoon, very good for the plants.

I posted a book at the post office, and fed the birds.

They are very fond of peanuts and fatty stuff, there are about 6 blue tits, most of them babies, still a bit yellow, they seem to eat some of the bottle brush flowers or maybe there are insects in the flowers, or they eat the nectar , I don't know most of the birds eat all day !

Later I drew another litho print which I printed this evening, I used some seed heads as the inspiration for the image, the little man has been around my work for years, always popping up in strange places.

A quiet day after yesterday.

day in London Matisse, Nil and Richard

What a wonderful day.

We met at the coffee shop at the Tate and chatted our way through the Matisse.   More views from the members room on the 5th floor. Its funny true friends are just a thread through your life, you might not have seen them for a year or so , but that does not seem to matter, amazing.

 Then the Matisse, again and marvelling at his immense talent, his awesome skills and his love of colour and design.

Do go and see the exhibition at the Tate Modern ; Matisse, The Cut-Outs 

Some pictures of the sky and our boat trip to the Tate Britain, we saw great life drawing exhibition.

And no rain until I got home !

Brilliant, thank you Nil, Richard

and London.

June 27 more Matisse and the bookshop

Today was a beautiful day and some lovely work was done by Nicola, Shirley, Lesley and Sue, and many others.

The topic of conversation was life death and the answer to the universe , great morning guys.

Not quite Matisse but still lovely, we are thinking about next terms project, painting based on the paintings of Winnefred Nicholson

I then popped on the Bookshop and did a garden drawing.

there are so many interesting drawings in the sketchbook already. But when I asks if any of the visitors to the Bookshop if they would like to draw anything , they all tell me they can't draw, such a shame.

I do hope that there will be some more nice customers of the bookshop will come and draw in my sketchbook.

lovely Matisse, lovely rain

More Matisse , a lovely morning , the works of art are progressing well.

Pam and her image of a man carrying books. And Wendy with her exquisite colour shapes.

I filled up the green bin with all the gardening waste from this week, another 2 weeks until they empty this one.  Oh no, not good.

Tonight we met up with the members of the exampleart.org.uk at our local fitness centre to launch Annie Burrows's arts trail work. She has some beautiful collagraphs, interesting mixed media work and a lovely shadow movie. Her work is very thought provoking very lovely.

And finally it is raining , how lovely, I was looking forward to this, lets hope the grass doesn't grow too fast, i should have mowed the lawn today. It was too warm for me.

And the bottle brush is finally flowering.

more work , more gardening, more drawing, elephant and small beastie

A couple of days ago I did a couple of litho prints, it's a wonderful printing process, but you have to have patience.

It's been wonderful weather and I have been gardening a lot as well my green bin is full and so are most of my gardening containers.

Today I have been drawing in the bookshop and so has John's daughter Holly she doodled a lovely flower doodle, thank you Holly !

quiet day

Lovely weather for washing, so thats what I did, I also printed several litho prints, 

and strimmed the back garden, relaxed and did nothing much else, oh yes I posted some Waitrose magazines to my cousin in Holland, I hopes she likes them !

Ahhh and I also cleaned all the windows, they look lovely !

These are some of the flowers in the garden, 

and my orchid is still flowering !

My prints are for sale, email me if you are interested.

friday again, drawing all the way

Today some more Matisse inspired images were put together ready for the framers and the exhibition next year !

These images are cut  by Sue, Kim, John and Marie

Then I went to the bookshop and did some more drawing, I met a very nice lady there, her uncle died in the bomb blast during the war and her father got blown across the road , it all happened just next door to the bookshop, it was quite an emotional experience for her to be so near where an important part of her families history had happened.

I also drew some of our new table flowers, very nice.