The flag is finished

Painted for a special friend of mine as a moving on gift..

(unceremoniously stuck to the door with blue tack so that I could photograph it for this blog)

 This was a very special piece made for a very special person with layer upon layer of meaning painted into and onto the canvas.. Significant only to it's new keeper..

At the last minute I decided to add a little poem, if you can call it that.. It will help to explain the flag to future generations of the family. Or may be not!

 

On reflection.. Perhaps I should have painted my full name..

A little more progress..

With a visitor staying with us from where we used to live, work on this piece is slow. We have been out and about visiting Penzance and St Michaels Mount..  It is so good to have visitors great to hear news of where we used to live and of the friends that we share.

 

Yesterday I sent them off to St Ives so that I could actually get some work done in the studio.. I know, I know, missing an opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful places, the one that tugged my heart to move here to Cornwall.. But there is work to be done and decisions to be made.. I was intending that this piece would be less 'colourful' and a little more monochrome than my normal way of working, but colour creeps in when I'm not concentrating..

Two new projects

Oil pastel on cardboard.

Cups of tea and a box of old oil pastels found whilst looking for something else led to having a few minutes of fun.. Listening to the radio heard of Tony Benn's death. So sad, a man and politician with strong views and who wasn't afraid to say what he thought.. A great speaker, a great writer.

 

'Anguish'

 

This is my other project, a leftover piece of canvas, treated with rice glue and pva.

  

Then using up old acrylic from my pallet to get rid of the white. Yep! Sunshine here in Cornwall, flip flops are officially out of the cupboard.

All going well, turned it over and painted the other side, left in sunshine to dry..

It all goes wrong.. Glue and paint dry and 'STICK' to newspaper.. 

Sugar!!!!........... (I really want to say another word!)

Varnishing the ark..

 

With Roberson & Co Beeswax picture varnish... It is so nice to use.. And the finish is lovely..

And with the animals...

There came an ark...