The sea meets the sky, the sky meets the sea

 

I asked Megan to guide me in my first attempt to paint the seascapes I photographed from the headland at the cove in Armadale Scotland. 

A couple of process photos follow.

A couple of the individual images follow.

Painting an image of something that is almost not there was/is hard for me - so a few more attempts will be required.

Modifying images

 

This post shares a few images of iPhone photos from Scotland that have had their background removed in preparation for doing a few more water colour paintings. I love the starkness of the image above of a wrecked timber boat on the high tide line of Talmine Beach Scotland. Because the background has been removed there are no borders to the images so they seem to float.

I hope I can do justice when painting the last image.

Wee fleet of wee magic metal boats

Little time was available over the weekend to do art work; so why not use it to create a wee fleet of wee metal boats - above and below.

Melting recycled metal can result to some unusual colours - contaminants in the metal? Still - when I get rainbow and purple colours they are to be celebrated.

A few more process shots follow.

This wee fleet most likely will make its way to markets in Scotland

That and this

 

This blog really is in two parts: some gorgeous blossoms from this morning (above and below); and some rust and texture images from a gallery Fiona and I visited on Saturday (later in the blog).

We visited The Churn Room gallery in Dayboro to see an exhibition called The Collection. Whilst the exhibition was beautiful; I was also captured by the use of rust, rope and the fact that old features of the historic building are on show - art pieces in their own right as you will see below. Very creative use of rusty mattress springs - lots of them acting as dividers, backdrops, hanging walls etc.

So there it is - that and this; or this and that - contrasting types of beauty.

Back to basics

 

Over the weekend I got back into metal work. This blog is about a couple of basic vessels - bowls - photos above and below. The bigger bowl is 13.5cm in diameter and about 4.5cm deep; and the smaller one is 12.5cm in diameter and 3.5 cm deep.

Following are a few process photos including metal marking and cutting, planishing the smaller bowl on a metal stake, the completed but unpolished smaller bowl and the polished smaller bowl.

The bowls will make their way into DEP gallery-shop. It is a good feeling to be hammering and forming metal. I also cut quite a bit of metal for leaf-spoons, tea caddy spoons; and melted offcuts and poured hulls for small boats - but that is all for another blog.

Keeping on - watercoloring that is

 

I have completed a couple more wee Scottish inspired watercolours this week. You can see process photos above and below. I have taken to doing a couple of the watercolours at the same time - gives each time to dry between painting sections.

Following are a couple of photos of the ruined cottage with the strong rust coloured roof.

The wee cottage below was seen on a trip on a back road top Ullapool. The roof was more maroons than red rust.

The number of watercolours is growing.

Random fragments from the phone

 

As the title  says today I'm simply sharing a range of photo taken over the last week including the flowers above; and flowers and leaves below.

A couple of G's orchids.

A fence of tiny spiders' webs

Some fungi in the forest.

Late afternoon - kookaburra and the moon.