Category: Random

  • 100 Paintings Project

    100 Paintings Project

    These aren’t meant to be works of art, they are much more about process, and I will probably bind them into a sketchbook affair once I have finished. If I finish, because there’s always the chance I won’t.

  • Shading

    Shading

    The pastels came back to me in a torn box, with the inserts discarded somewhere so they were all in a jumbled, dusty mess. They were broken, wrappers were torn, or missing, and all the colours rubbing together had coated them all in a kind of manky grey dust.

  • Circling

    Circling

    Things I know about blogging and me: I never finish blog challenges, absolutely especially daily ones. I need to watermark my photos so they don’t end up being someone on Etsy’s wee giclée print. Unless I buy a giclée printer. I like the idea of pottering along barely noticed. I might post this as a…

  • Serpent Star

    Serpent Star

    I walked for five and a half miles this morning. This used to be a daily habit, but in recent times that habit has fallen away a bit since my walking companion was unable to join me. There are moments of sadness now as I try to start up my habit again, but I take…

  • New Dawn, New Day

    New Dawn, New Day

    Happy New Year! I walked in the dark to find sunrise, and found some fabulous beach treasures along the way. Maybe I will blog this year, maybe I won’t. No resolutions, they just end up as a list of Not Done Things.

  • Luig

    How to begin a new blog? It begins with just one word, and I choose “luig”… Luig v.“To become loose or detached…  to open out… to fray… to take apart… to tease out…” Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. I’ll add a picture, because pictures are good, and pictures tell stories… I was standing…