Think I have got this right now….not sure.

This is my first blog on “It’s all in the head”!.  Why that title? – perhaps it sums up how I see and observe objects/people..anything around me before making a piece of art work.  Most of what I paint and draw comes from my own imagination, probably using references from my surrounding area, where I have been, or what I have seen.  Creativity comes from the head as well as the heart – but a little imagination can go a long way to creating something unique.

I suppose art is a very subjective, always developing ‘thing’ – but I still hold sway with the idea of talent, skill, mastery of a craft.  Not too keen on the box on the floor at the Tate Gallery in London  at the moment which is heralded as ‘art’.  Other people will tell you that because you have a ‘feeling’ of either dislike, or like, or in someway feel emotional about it, then the ‘box’ has about as much right to be art as a Van Gogh.  Sorry, I don’t buy that.

My blogs will be essentially about different projects I am doing, how I got there I suppose.  They may be boring, they may be good – but at least they are expressive.

The piece I have just finished is of Gold Rudbeckias – I visited Wisley Gardens, Surrey (I live at the foot of the South Downs in Sussex) and was amazed by the beauty of these lovely flowers.  This piece was made as a present for a friend of mine who went to Wisley with me – this is for her 50th birthday
In this picture, I used quite a bit of pattern with a fine pen – this probably took several hours to complete and was not user-friendly to my eyes.
I belong to a couple of societies here and did a quick watercolour of some pears today at one society. I had a scrap of mount board with me, so painted on that (always one to save money) – was not very absorbent and could do with painting again on proper watercolour paper
This next piece is my first attempt after many years with limited pastel use – white, pale brown and charcoal on brown pastel paper.  He was an interesting character – a myriad of wrinkles and planes in his face, with the added injury to his bottom lip!  This made for a very interesting face to draw:

I hope this is a successfully published post, because either I am dim, or am missing a link in trying to get the thing on my blog.  So let’s see what happens.