Paintings Update #6

Striped Dress, print available here (£15) // Breton & Coral, print available here (£15)

Just a little update today; I have more new paintings, but I stupidly left them at my mum's house when I went home last week and forgot to scan them! She's posting them back to me though, so I'll hopefully be able to share them with you next Sunday - I know the anticipation is almost too much to bear. ;)

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Paintings Update #3

I've been fairly busy this week painting-wise; I've finished off one portrait that's been lingering a while, and got a good headstart on a new mini series I'm doing: iconic fashion pieces! I really enjoy doing these, they're super simple but super effective (in my opinion!) - basically just repetitions of one single item of clothing or accessory. I think my favourite is the Alexander McQueen skull clutch one; some of them still need details adding though, but I've ran out of glitter! Tomorrow's plan is to head to Ryman's and restock my glitter collection, and also see what they have in the way of metallic marker pens - I remember in primary school my teacher had some really cool ones that you shook before you wrote with them, does anyone know if you can still get these/what they're called??

Paintings Update #2

This update is a little late; I'd been using my housemate's scanner but she went on holiday last week and I had to wait until my boyfriend brought his down for me to use! But it works brilliantly, so everything should be back to normal from now on! And without further ado, here's my new paintings from last week:

Paintings Update

A while ago I said that I'd started up painting again, and that I'd post a new painting every day on my blog - that clearly didn't last! Not because I haven't been doing any more paintings, but because I thought it would perhaps clog up my blog a little bit for people who aren't really that interested in art. Instead, I thought I would do a weekly/fortnightly round up of what I've been painting lately.

Gemma Ward

Karlie Kloss

Bridgette Bardot

Kate Moss

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Painting of the day #4

I've had the BEST day today! I came to my Mum's house and met the new puppies; they're absolutely adorable and kept jumping up at me, licking my nose and sitting on my lap! Love them! I also tasted my Granny's best ever blueberry scones (too good), some new tea flavours my Mum found and watching the Jubilee flotilla on the TV - my favourite moments were when the royals were bopping along to the philharmonic orchestra and when Kate knocked Wills' head with her umbrella! Love the royal family!

Today I painted the beautiful Blair from Atlantic-Pacific; follow her blog if you love outfit posts because she has the most gorgeous wardrobe and an inspirational sense of style!

Painting of the day #3

I eventually reached Shrewsbury at 10pm last night, and my wonderful father picked me up with a Chinese takeout and a bottle of wine! My little sister woke me up early this morning and we spent the morning reading Jacqueline Wilson books and watching Matilda on DVD - I'd forgotten how much I loved that film! She was then in the village carnival, and after watching the floats and partaking in the obligatory tombola we went off to a local pub for dinner. She had the biggest ice cream I'd ever seen in my life, I had to help her eat some but even then we couldn't finish it!

Want to make a child happy? Give her a massive ice cream.

Inspiration for today's painting came from the Les Composantes archives. This image immediately drew my eye; I just can't resist the combination of black, white and red, especially when paired with matching lipstick!

Painting of the day #2

I'm currently writing this in the noisy, uncomfortable surroundings of Manchester Piccadilly train station - I'm half-way on my way back down to Shrewsbury, but because my train from Edinburgh was delayed I missed my connecting train so have to wait an extra 45 minutes! Just enough time to catch up on some blogs and post this!

I painted this earlier this morning; I'd bookmarked this glorious outfit post from Kaylah of Dainty Squid when she first posted it and have been drawn back to it numerous times since! There's something so beautiful and effortless about the way she mixes bold prints and colours, and I love seeing all her latest outfits.

Source image: Dainty Squid

Media used:
Watercolour paints in Lemon Yellow, Crimson Red and Prussian Blue
Acrylic paints in Indescent Gold

Painting of the day #1

Since classes and exams have finished, I've been getting back into painting. I used to paint all the time when I was at school, and I even went to art college after finishing my GCSEs (I left after a couple of months to go to sixth form so I could get into university instead), but I haven't really done much since leaving home, so I picked up some basic watercolours and some metallic and neon acrylic paints from Ryman's a couple of weeks ago.

I've just been painting and drawing random things so far, but from today I've decided to paint one specific portrait or landscape each day (these will probably almost always be portraits, as I'm mostly inspired by beautiful editorials or street style photos): today's painting comes courtesy of Lookbook.

Source image: Flavia D. on Lookbook.nu

I was drawn to the clashing prints (monochrome spots and stripes being especial favourites of mine) but particularly to the gorgeous yellow coat. I'd recently bought a fantastic neon acrylic paint, so thought this would be the perfect image to crack it open for.

Media used:
Watercolour paints in Lemon Yellow, Crimson Red, Prussian Blue and Burnt Umber
Acrylic paints in Indescent Gold, Indescent Silver and Lemon Yellow