Musings - Blog & Videos

Welcome, and thank you for visiting. In this short video you will see a series of small, square, paintings of animals and birds that I have created on Ampersand Claybord panels with Holbein Acrylics. I have written a little story to go with each character. I hope they will bring a smile to your face. You will find more of the collection and the accompanying stories by following the link for Beasts and Birds in Available Paintings.

According to medieval lore, cats got their name because catus, in Greek, means cunning (footnote). What the stories were referring to, of course, is the house cat’s amazing hunting ability. Fittingly, another ancient word for cat, musio, means “mouser.”

So here is your challenge; Can you figure out what was painted first, how the layers were organized and what came last? In this post, I will show you the secret I use for painting the landscape.

In this video, Linda demonstrates how to achieve negative painting of a single leaf with a serrated edge.

It’s hard to resist a field of poppies. Dorothy and her pals the Lion, Scarecrow and the Tin Man can attest to that! A magnificent field of poppies on the way to Saint Hilaire in the south of France lead to a discussion about breaking the landscape into shapes and creating gentle textural effects. I hope you like the simplicity of my little watercolour.