Lucy’s coloring book

Color me brightly

Category: Art Journal

  • Finally I am back to normal. It’s rainy and cool and I can sleep again. The only thing that I miss about the seaside is my early morning swim. But a good night sleep is much more appreciated. So, today I actually finished the last of my 31 ATCs, therefore I have accomplished my challenge. I…

  • World Watercolor Month: Days 11 and 12

    As I hinted yesterday, here come two darker pieces. These are not ATCs but they are anyway small, only 5″x7″ or 12.5 x 18 cm. What to say… You start painting intuitively and sooner or later ugly things will come up. If you listen, you will hear. And don’t be surprised. This is what you were seeking…

  • Think, she says to herself, but do not overthink stuff. Collage, acrylic, modelling paste, watercolor on hot pressed watercolor paper. And see her in the making:

  • I think summer is finally here. We had hot weather last week and yesterday it finally rained. It was a beautiful refreshing long rain. And this morning is fresh and happy. It’s still quiet just birds singing. So… I decided to finish a long ago started spread in my art journal. Happy Summer to all!

  • The only limits are those you impose on yourself… Work in progress. She is deep in thoughts. She is rather unhappy, scared and in need of encouragement… which can obviously come only from inside. But she is not strong enough today. Collage and acrylic background and watercolor on top.

  • Of course it is, because it’s past 10pm. But there is something else that’s dark – my mood. I lost control yesterday and said something I should not have said to someone I love and who is weaker. And it was not fair. No matter how hurt I was… So I am on the mend……

  • She knows but she is refusing to accept it. She hopes it is not what is. She hopes that it is true that everything changes. This was done on 5×7 stand-alone sheet of 300gsm hot pressed paper. It’s mostly acrylics and collage for background and the face is done in watercolors over a layer of…

  • It’s been un unsettling week. As you read in my last post, there were things to do which I didn’t like doing. And I did them all but one. BUT! They are not done because two of them  are ‘to be continued…’ because… such is life… so there is a certain feeling of accomplishment but…

  • It’s Monday and I am back from holiday. There’s a list of problems I need to solve and I feel so weak so lonely and so unable to do anything. Typical for me. Nothing is really unsolvable, I just don’t like solving things. I hate dealing with people and it all tires me to before…

  • Here’s another one in Book of Days series. It’s called ‘look’. I used a photo from the internet as reference. Actually the photo was of a child but I transformed it into a woman. It felt good to actually look at photo and paint as opposed to always painting my women from imagination. This way…