Playing with Colour

 Tonight I did a quick little drawing exercise from a still life (some random objects I put together). My challenge was to choose a limit my colour palette to draw the still life with. I chose an analogous palette of red, red-purple and purples to work with. This is my quick interpretation of the still life.

Branching Out

Spring is in full swing here. The trees have burst into full leafy glory in the last week, we have gone from a limited selection of early spring flowers to a wide variety of gorgeous blooms, and my belly has grown too. So in the spirit of spring and new growth I thought I would branch out and play with some decor ideas for our new little arrival. Looking at the finished pieces I discovered that as much as I 'branched out' and played with these new pieces, I still found a common theme running through them.

First, I still found myself using repetition to create these pieces. Repetition is a constant theme in my work, but this time I did not set out to use it. I was inspired by the branches and set out to create something more organic and unstructured. However, somehow even while working with the organic shapes, repetition seems to have seeped into my work subconciously. Not that I really mind. Secondly, apparently I really like trees. Having decided not to find out the gender of our little one, we had to come up with a gender neutral nursery scheme. We decided to go with a woodland forest theme. When I tell people they respond along the lines of "didn't you use trees for your wedding?" So, yes, I am using more trees, well, at least pieces of trees to decorate the nursery.  And so here are my newest pieces where I branched out, but stayed consistent at the same time.