Lillies

Lillies

I added this painting to todays blog for a very simple reasons. Firstly, and probably most importantly , I still like this painting.

I like the colours of it and I like the feelings that it still gives me when I study it.

The other thing I love about lilies is the this. We see only the leaf and the flower. But under the water the lilly has had to struggle up through all the mud and grim to give us this beauty. 

This painting was done in a acrylic. I still have it. Maybe because I have never hung it anywhere because although I like it  I still have my doubts about it.




This blog is linked to my other.  Barry, The Workplace Idiot.

Can I Tempt You

Can I Tempt You

Once again I have no new art to put on this blog. I used this artwork on my other blog because it fitted with the story of the day.

This painting done in pastel was completed after once again hearing somebody talk of the biblical story of Adam and eve and the story of the apple. I always laugh when I hear people mention this. The truth is there is no mention at all of an apple in the story. If you do not believe go and read it again in the book of Genesis. There you will see that there is the fruit of both the tree of knowledge and the fruit of the tree of good and evil but no apple.

Nevertheless the apple has become a symbol of temptation. Think of the tale of sleeping beauty.

This morning in my other blog this idea of us being tempted was my theme.

The painting is presently hanging for sale and there has been some interest shown in it.


Having a new computer means I will be adding people to my favourites bar again when I visit and I will do so from the comments it is so much easier.

This blog is linked to my other. The Four Wives of Life

Pendo

Pendo

I have added this painting today for the reasons explained in my other blog. Pendo and her husband live in the same village as me. She is a devout Christian and a lovely caring person. The first time I met her it was a beautiful summer day and she was dressed in beautiful bright summer clothes and a bright scarf. She and I did not agree all the time about the things that we believed in and we had some wonderful discussions. We learned from each other and often agreed to disagree.


One day she was with her husband and I called out her name. When she turned I took a picture on my cell phone. From that picture I produced this painting. Her husband bought the painting from me, he insisted on buying it.

Today as I write this she is sitting on an aeroplane heading to her homeland to attend the funeral of her young brother.

The painting was done in pastel and catches the essence of Pendo.

I put it here today to say simply, “You are in all our thoughts, go well.”

This blog is linked to my other.  There are Other Worlds To Sing In

Blue Abstract

Blue Abstract

I still have not painted any new works this week. I am still trying to get everything off my computer and ready for the new one. It was my hope to paint today but I have got up this morning and one thing and another I just cannot bring myself to go into my paint room.

Painting is at its best when the artist and the paint become one. A friend was telling me only yesterday that this was no longer happening so the paint was being laid aside. I pleaded with my friend to think again. I was wrong to do that. If the paint and the artist are not singing the same tune the finished work will have no inner being.

I was looking back at some of my latest. This was my attempt at an abstract in blue. It was seen by everybody as a seascape of sorts.

Last night I walked in what could only be described as a torrent of rain and wind. All those who said they saw the sea in this abstract were right I did not see it that way but the sea was very much like this last night.

My heart was in this abstract I can see that. I can feel it. Today I could not paint this or anything like it.

I have put it on here so soon after last posting it because I can see now that this is in fact a painting with more in it than I thought when I last posted it.

This blog is linked to my other.  Do to Others

T in the Park (Joy).

T in the Park (Joy).

I have been so busy these last few days preparing for my new computer that I have been unable to paint. I have therefore today used one that some will have seen before.

This abstract was painted after have seen a report of the large summer festival that takes place not far from where I live. The people attending the festival seemed to be really enjoying themselves and a sense of togetherness flowed from the screen. I just could not resist trying to capture that feeling and mood.

Amazingly the painting sold very quickly. I was sure if it sold at all, it would have been sold to a person who had attended. In fact it was bought by an older couple who just found it cheerful.

As you know my computer was crashed by a technician supposedly helping with the install of his companies software. I have spent over a week getting it back in working order. My family have insisted that it is time to say goodbye to it and I await the new one.

I suppose I should be jumping with joy and full of the emotion of this painting. Reality is I am kind of attached to my old “Gandalf.” My new computer uses a different operating system altogether and will take time to get used to, and feel the same comfort I do with this one.

Computing is a bit like painting, it is so easy to just stick with what you know and what you have.

This blog is linked to my other.  Things That Are Precious