Various

The one above was created by drawing the lines with two pens at the same time. I do rather like it.



I've just treated myself to some twinkling H2Os. The examples immediately above and below have backgrounds done with the twinklers. Great paints.



And now I revert to my pshychedelic phase!




The secret is to sleep well and dream of fairies floating in the wind. The fairies will bring you good luck. Fairies sleep on gossamer thread. Fairies dream.



The one above is called "calm".

Join the dots - Magic Marker

A bit over the top!

doodles

I've just got into doodling via the yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inklin/. Great fun and really relaxing. Here are some of my efforts.

This one is a "true" doodle because it is in one of my notebooks. We were set a challenge in the group to "join the dots", so, I set up a number of dots and joined them.

Skins

Our next project was to make "skins". The idea was to put some golden fluids clear tar gel into a small cup and add golden fluids acrylic paint. The clear tar gel is self levelling. However, I made a bit of a boo boo with my order and ended up with coarse garnet gel. So, I thought to myself, might as well play with this and a few other bases as well.

I put them on a window to photograph in order to show off translucency.
1 & 2. Garnet gel and golden fluid acrylics
3. Cryla texture paste
4. Gloss Enamel
5. Tubed acrylic paint
6. Acrylic Paint & PVA



Some Close Ups

Enamel Acrylic Gloss



PVA and Acrylic




Golden Garnet Gel and Golden Fluids Acrylics

Oxford

Yesterday (July 15th 2006) Paul and I took my brother Richard home to Oxford. It was a glorious summers day and we decided to have lunch at the Victoria Arms. I had last been there about 30 years ago and had only approached it from the river on a couple of punting trips. I had no idea how to find it by car, and we weren't up for punting ot it that day. Luckily, my memory and the Internet served me well and I was able to find directions.

I had a King Prawn salad for lunch, so delicious.

I took my new camera with me of course and here is a small record.

Oxford

The Victoria Arms.



Not one of the best pub signs I have seen.



Rather a lot of punts.



An interesting tree.



An interesting gate in the village of Old Marston



I decided to try taking photos from the car. This is a bridge leading to Cuttleslowe Park.

Layers

The idea of this challenge is to use stamping, resisting and translucent paints.