Feeling inspired

The better weather we experience in Europe whilst traveling always makes everything feel so much better and that includes my art practice. I'm not going to bore you, I'm just going to share a few pictures of stuff that I've been working on.

The top two are a work in progress painting in my sketchbook and there is more colour to be added but I like to preserve the earlier stages digitally in case I wreck it at some point lol.

The linocut I'm quite pleased with but as mentioned previously I can only print in black at this moment so the colourised version has been achieved digitally for now.

Both of these will be available in the summer as HPP (hand painted prints) and digital prints. In other news I am communicating with A .Gallo watercolours in Assisi. I purchased from them last year for the first time and their paints are just wonderful. As we are in Italy and will be able to visit the shop in person I am building a wonderful shopping list. More of that next time though.

Thanks for reading.

Wendy xx

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Putting it out there

Plasencia Dreams 1&2 So, scarily, I have today placed a couple of nicely framed originals for sale in my local fine art gallery (as seen above). I let the proprietor set the price and so this experience is a new one for me. I'm viewing the whole thing as an experiment that I'm going to try to enjoy and learn from. I thoroughly enjoyed crafting these hand modified prints (HMP). They started life as a print of a watercolour I painted during our Autumn 2021 trip. Early in the trip we'd stayed just outside Plasencia towards the bottom end of the Jerta valley. A lovely cycle path ran from our campsite to the Presa del Embalse where my sister-in-law and I had spent a lovely afternoon wandering around and swimming in the lake. Later in the trip, when we were parked up and chilling just outside Isla Cristina for a few days, I'd grab my paints each afternoon as the temperature rose, and slowly but surely I painted one of my favourite scenes. Presa del Embalse de Palsenci

Whales Ahoy

Whale-Sing Matilda - SOLD Heading to Walkmill @N0.7 this week we have 'Whale-Sing Matilda' Perhaps I need to apologise for the title I've given it, who knows lol. I absolutely love this picture. It's the result of a little bit of digital artistry by myself. The background is a scanned in copy of a watercolour I painted in 2022 which I never finished - as in I never painted anything in the foreground, quite typical of me I'm afraid. The gorgeous blue whales are digital copies of a linocut I carved whilst on our travels this spring and which I'm struggling to frame the originals of at the moment. However, the second I combined these digitally I knew I was onto a winner. Limited to an edition of 20, the print itself has been hand embellished to accentuate the golds and silvers. N o 2/20 has been mounted in a simple black frame and will be available in town from Thursday. With my digital prints I do print them one at a time nowadays but never go over the or

Hello and welcome

A glimpse into my studio - Hello there! It's taken me a while but I've finally started work on my online presence to accompany my creative journey. To be honest this post is pretty much a place holder whilst I work on constructing the galleries and links to my online shop. For a while it will remain the top blog post and I'll update it as I go along. Hopefully when all the construction work is completed the blog posts will be used to reflect where I'm at creatively and share some of my experiences. I have started work on my online shop (hosted by Sum-Up) Eventually you'll find pages for cards, limited editions, originals and a full gallery listed at the top of my Home page. These will detail the art work that is available and will provide a link to that item in the shop. If you'd like to just go straight to the shop then please follow this link here . I've no idea how many folk I'm likely to reach but hopefully it will be fun finding out, and please

Under the Oak designs