My only watercolour...

Below is a cropped picture of a watercolour i did a few years ago... my only watercolour... (everything else before & since then has been acrylic)

'Island Arbutus'

(And this is just a little 'glitter' that i wanted to test on this page)...

Wow. I actually painted something!

Old news now, to the facebook crowd, but i thought i'd post my little painting here as well. A little 5x7 acrylic on canvasboard of my daughter in her 'blue period', that i did around Valentine's Day.

It's not much really, but considering i hadn't painted in years, it was a fabulous breakthrough in my dry spell. Not to mention it's the first portrait i've ever painted in my life!  I don't know how much i'll continue painting, but at least this was a start! I have done a couple of other small, paintings since this, but they're private & i can't show them.

My biggest thing now, is i just don't know what i want to paint! I need to do some more paintings for my high school Birthday Bash in May, but... *shrug* Hopefully it will come to me before the deadline mid-April.. :-)

'Martha Washingtons'

This little one (only 5x7 and painted with acrylics), i think, is my favourite one that i've done. Just thought i'd share at least SOMEthing! :-)

"No-brainer-feel-good" Art

Ah. So that's what it's called; the kind of painting i do. Something to do with "the proliferation of the so called 'easy do', 'unschooled' and 'no-brainer-feel-good' art".

I love Robert Genn's work and his marvellous Painter's Keys Twice-Weekly Newsletter - you really should subscribe if you haven't already @

- but sometimes labels get thrown around too much for my taste. It can get a bit judgemental when some of the commenting artists express their opinions.

And that's ok. Everyone has a right to their opinion. And labels seem to be very important to a lot of people. Hey, even i get into them myself sometimes (in a hopefully much less judgmental way).

So, in the name of fun and playfulness, I will take that label of "No-brainer-feel-good Art" and embrace it with joy.

This is how i want to paint right now. I want to paint simple daily situations in a simple folk-art fun style, because it is what i want on my OWN walls. Big stress in the real world warrants simple fun paintings in my world!

That's how i see it . . . for now.

'Trying to Relax'