Pushing away those Winter Blues!
Beech Huts. Acrylic & Water Colour Pencil on 13mm deep MDF Board. 30 x 10 cm.
The sun shone today. The walls in our office were awash with lambent streams of light flowing in through vertical blinds. Lovely! Despite my headache (self inflicted from the previous evening’s pub visit!) I felt a glimpse of renewal. The heat gently soothed my aching back, massaging me internally. The blue sky was a welcome change from the dull overcast shades of the past few months. We even turned the thermostat down!! Maybe it was because of my new piece which I was just finishing up, that Sol thought she would pop in? Cheery and bright is this little experiment which is unglamorously textured ceiling paint on MDF (yet to be signed), worked into with acrylic paints and watercolour pencils. Painting on such a gritty surface has been a challenge for me (not least for my poor brushes!) but the affect is visually interesting. It’s got grit and it’s got depth. Oh, I love beech huts! I wished I lived by the sea. Oooh, I feel a Dido song coming on . . . . . . . . “I’ve always thought that I would love to live by the sea, To travel the world alone and live more simply. I have no idea what’s happened to that dream, Cos there’s really nothing left here to stop me. It’s just a thought, only a thought……….”
Beech Huts Close-up
