They Draw and They Travel

They Draw and Cook now brings you They Draw and Travel  

Meta Wraber

How sweet is this?

Marianna Oklejak

There are loads of details on these two,  they really deserve a closer look.

Margaret Hagan

I will post my Tenerife map soon

New Work

A lovely, long weekend at home means more time to paint! 

This Week.....

 ........I saw some wonderful sights.....

I made this delicious cake (ok, i didn't make this particular one, mine didn't last long enough for a photo)

(image via smitten kitchen)

I admired the work of  Phil Frost with the kids at school

and I loved these string gardens

What did you get up to?

I've got my eye on you!

Some recent additions to my 'wish' list. Very colourful, of course!

apartment therapy

51 Stars Paris

Maya Hayuk via MLFY

anthro

augustina woodgate

IF Safari

My elegant pink giraffe fits in nicely with this week's IF topic of safari.

It's a dream of mine to go on a wildlife tour in Madagascar and see some of these crazy creatures...

What Makes You Happy?

                                                                     ORphotography

Phillip David

ValeriaH

Debbie Carlos

honeytree

slightclutter

irene suchocki

Keri Bevan

Something that always makes me happy is to go walking through the woods and so I've been happily spotting a lot of mysterious, woodsy photographs lately on Etsy. I thought I'd share my favourites. What about you? What is guaranteed to make you feel happy? I'd love to hear.

Happy May!

A beautiful, secluded garden I spotted on a recent walk. I'm so envious!

Hurray, it's May! To celebrate a wonderful start to the month I am having a print sale in my shop!

Inspirations

A far cry from my usual bright colour palette, I've been taken with blueish grey lately. I love the little shots of colour in unexpected places. 

COLOUR ALERT

This blog is becoming less and less about my own art and more about the wonderful stuff I keep coming across! One thing just leads to another and before I realise, an hour has flown by. Oh well, it's nearly Easter and I should get some time to create. Meantime, these beauties by Jiha Moon are really uplifting, no?.

Spring Feeling

Rosie's Bed by Judy Pfaff, 2009, cut, burnt, and perforated bond and Crown Kozo paper, joss paper, sheet music, silk and paper flowers, honey comb packing material, wire, fishing line, coffee filters, ink, kite parts, 91 x 91 x 6 inches

De Los Floresby Judy Pfaff, 2010, dyed and folded Japanese papers, print matter, artificial flowers, gourds, coffee filters, 91 x 91 x 6 inches

I've been greatly inspired today by the wall sculptures of installation artist Judy Pfaff. If you like this work check out her website.

Animal artwork

Oh dear, two weeks since my last post, how time flies!! I have been working on a commission today. I don't usually 'do' animals but who can resist a pink giraffe ? :D 

I'm feeling inspired by Stanford Kay's colour palettes. Aren't they beautiful paintings?

Succulents

 

As I have said before, I love succulents! I am lucky to live in a place where I'm pretty much surrounded by their gorgeousness. I just had to create a painting around them.