If You Have Had Your Eye...

on something in my Etsy shops, then now might be the right time to buy. I'm taking part in the VAST (Visual Arts Etsy) Holiday Sale, and twenty per cent will be taken off the price of anything you choose in either artmixter at etsy or artmixter's purelypainting at etsy. However, that does exclude Lovely Lutradur CDs, which you can find for sale here.

As you might know, my Artmixter shop on Etsy has all sorts of artworks in it, mainly textiles, mixed media and some hand bound small journals. Purely Painting, though, is just what it says... it has paintings of all descriptions. So, as I say, now would be the time to buy... why not go for a wee browse... you know you want to! If you do decide to buy something, contact me first, and I'll adjust the price for you.

The images show a piece from both shops, each one of my personal favourites. The painting is 'Matryoshka', and is oil on canvas. The textile is Curvilinear, a very recent lutradur piece. I hope you enjoy looking at them.

Waxing Lyrical

Hurrah, it's autumn, time to get the encaustics out again... I get too hot in the summer to work with extra heat, ironing is bad enough, the heat of melting wax is just overkill. But now I can see it as an alternative means of heating The Little Green Shed, and enjoy working with it in the relative cool of winter.

I don't often wax particularly lyrical about work, but there's something about this piece, Autumn Wind, that just seems to invite it. For me, the piece evokes the colours of the autumn, their warmth, and the warmth of a beautiful Autumn day. The wax on top, though, is a dark blue, the blue of a chill wind, perhaps the first of the winter winds, reminding us of the chills that are to come.

This piece features wax carving, which shows the beauty of the colours beneath it. See what I mean... I'm waxing lyrical! You can find this piece in my purelypainting etsy shop
if you would like to see more detail shots....and see if you can find the leaf being blown about on that wind...

Borderline

I've been making a lot of small work, recently, and though I would list a larger painting, for a change. Borderline is an original abstract oil painting, measuring 23.5" square. In some ways, it could be called an inner landscape. It was inspired by a Joni Mitchell song of the same name; 'Out on some border line, Some mark of in between, I lay down frozen in time, And woke up vanishing'. It is a beautiful song; I'm a real Joni Mitchell fan! I rarely make work inspired by music, but I love this particular song, and hope that the piece reflects it in some way. This painting is bright, strong, and features impasto, or textured painting...to see what I mean, check out the closeups here


Borderline, along with other oil paintings, can be found in my purelypainting etsy shop