This week, I am experimenting with Anders Zorn’s reduced palette. As an oil painter this would have me using four tubes of paint: titanium white, ivory black, alizarin crimson or cadmium red and yellow ochre. As a watercolourist, I am
This is my sweetheart working from home. It’s the usual way of things chez Gillands: I sit at my desk or sit/stand at my easel, he is sitting on the sofa all comfortable reading, thinking and typing on his computer.
There is a lovely modern jazz song by the title of ‚Hang on, little tomato‘ – my husband wants to play this with his band sometime soon. Even before he has a chance to do that though, I am borrowing
Two days ago incessant heavy rain prevented any painting outing whatsoever. I had reserved time in the day especially for that and was therefore quite disappointed. However, one of the blogs I read happened to feature a post on flower
I am so glad that I have been able to give into spur-of-the-moment painting ideas lately! This was one of them. These wild flowers (or weeds, as some might say) seemed so appealing all of a sudden on Saturday morning
I’ve been a bit obsessive about the weather lately – if you mind that, don’t read on 😉 It has finally been sunny for an entire day! And I even had the opportunity to spend some time outside sketching! It
Yesterday I dropped off a painting which had been commissioned almost exactly a year ago. I know, shameful, isn’t it? Of course I have all kinds of reasons for why it took so long to get it done… but in
Me and my other half, we are very lucky birds indeed because we live in a rental flat and yet we have a fireplace! We enjoy it all the time – normally. But as happy as I am about having
You know, even if you set out on a journey in order to explore, be free-floating and have fun, there might be things that make you forget about all of these things, and before you know it you are very
I have sketched this building before, back in September (and then again, recently). Many decades ago someone’s grandmother lived here, and this someone found my earlier sketch as she was searching online for clues about her forebears. We emailed and
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