A couple of years ago I started painting again, after not doing any drawing or painting for years.
Here's some of my work:



Unicorn


Venice Bride


Mists of Avalon



Power Animal



Rotting Tree Trunk


Currently working on another one, hoping to finish it today :)

Nice!
Wish I could do that!

BTW,somehow I have the feeling the Dormer of the House in the first Painting is looking at me!

They are lovely. I esp love the 'bride' one...

Yes, it's keeping an eye on you, isn't it, haha. Didn't intend to do that, sometimes things just happen

Yeah, that one is quite dear to me :)

Ooh... Story time! Can you share a little about it?

Haha, there's a shop in the UK that sells breath-taking, medieval style wedding-dresses. I was nuts about them, and also hoping to get married to the man I was with at the time. Not for the sake of being married, but cos I really wanted to be his wife. However, things went sour and the last thing he was interested in, was marriage.
I felt deeply hurt and rejected, and the painting is a reflection of my feelings at the time: The bride walking away, dark environment, on her way to ... a better life? New dawning?
No one knew about my pain, not even that I wanted to get married to him, hence you don't see this woman's face either. She's hiding her sorrow from the rest of the world.
Thank god that's all behind me.

I'm currently 'brooding' on a new bride painting, showing her from the other side, in daylight, a happy woman at that.

Good work little mama!

Good sense of foreshortening and perspective.

:)

Thank you, Krupa

This one is part John Sargeant's "Nonchaloir" and part me. It still needs a finishing touch, mainly light shining through the stain-glass windows. I haven't got the guts yet to do it as they got to be perfect straight lines, semi-transparant and coloured



I had to do that once, the beam of the lighthouse, phew


Currently working on this:



And in between things did this wallpainting outdoors. The silver reflects light (i.e. solar LEDs, but also light from the firepit. Had that going the other day, stunning reflections!)

Nice pieces woman.

Ya got range.

If I may...as far as the light retracting through the stained glass...

NEVER shoot for perfection...

Light through a prism requires perfection.

Stained glass is inherently flawed...to be realistic...the refraction should be flawed.

Stained glass has natural random warps and flow...it diffused lights into glows with no sharp edges.

This is not to say "don't do it"...because you may be able to pull it off.

It just seems you go for a reality effect...and perfection doesn't exist in reality.

Love the unicorn!

wow good work
i like it
very nice paintings

Thank you!

Krupa, thx for the info.
I will get to it at some point ... Have to decide how far the light will reach. I'm kind of stuck with the curtain. I plan to have more shadow along side, so it's not so close to the wall, more like behind the settee. But then the light coming in through the windows, shouldn't reach past that curtain, make a dead stop. So visually moving that curtain will make my life difficult
But ... I know myself well enough that at some point I will just get that painting off the wall and simply do it!

As for my range, yeah, I do landscapes, but also intuitive/abstract paintings. almost always use (water soluble) oil-paint.
I love to sod around with Bob Ross' things. That man had a vision! Learnt a lot from doing some of his work.
Sometimes I intend to do a landscape and end up doing something else completely.

This was supposed to be a regular landscape, but I ended up with the outlines of a castle in the woods, Merlin and there's even Ogham symbols in it.




Loved doing this one, the fetus-like shape is the island I live on (never knew it had a fetus-like shape till I had to paint it)





And there's this one, mixed feelings about it. Love the bird, but not completely happy with the wings

Started this painting about a week ago. After today's session I'm finally getting somewhere! Happy!

Started with this:



Then I go this




And yes! Finally the windmill!



Lots more work to be done, but I'm quite chuffed with the result so far!

I'd be all over them in an art galery... really

Talent i'm envious of for sure

Thank you John

Those are beautiful pieces of work. I really love the lighthouse.

Absolutely beautiful pieces! You are most talented!

Nice work ..
Thanks for sharing them !

Thank you for the feedback!
Maybe I'll find the courage to do something with them one day, haha.
I'm very critical and somewhat insecure when it comes to my own work, always think it ain't good enough.