COLOUR EXPLOSION

30 inch by 40 inch
oil on one inch canvas
NFS

I am so enjoying using gesso to cover large paintings that I was never too fond of, even better is re-using them to play with colour on such a large scale, such a departure from what I usually paint. It is always good to try something new...gets those creative juices flowing even more.

DANCING COLOUR

8 x 10 inch
oil on 1/2 inch canvas
NFS

Today and tomorrow I am doing a workshop with Eumni Conacher, it is so interesting, and outside the box for me...anything goes.

After a morning of lecture, painting, demo and much lively conversation it was time to start a floral painting which is what Eumni is known for and what we had all been waiting for.  O.K. she said, you have 30 minutes to do your painting... what, at first I panicked, but it is so freeing to only have a set time, you don't have any time to think, you just have to go with your gut and put that paint on the canvas. This is the painting.