Sorry, fever took over!

This is the winter view out of one of my windows.

Been ill the last 10 days, had a high fever and not been up to much other than lying on the couch and in bed feeling rotten.

I will be back soon when I am feeling better :-)

Green and pink.

Plants from my home and a quick computer creation ....
It is cold and blowing today ... brrrr, I have been home all weekend, kept the wood burning stove going, been creative and relaxed. Definitely not weather to go out in.

I have posted a hand painted watercolour mandala on my other blog here - http://mandala-art.blogspot.com/2010/01/watercolour-mandala.html so if you are interested check it out :-)

Orchids and the delights of the colour pink.

I wish you all A Happy New Year!!!!
Please let us together create a year where the qualities of love and peace come forth, where we as individuals make a difference towards creating a wonderful world. We can do this in our own way inspiring and helping friends, family and strangers in our communities and in the whole wide world. I personally feel that I need to change my focus onto that which gives me contentment and happiness, to a life full of depth and the unfoldment of talent. Sharing this with others and giving others my help is an invaluable part of this. 2009 has been a difficult year, on reflection I have learnt so much on the value of living my life in each moment, appreciating my friends and family and the possibilities that show themselves in my life. Thank you all for visiting and commenting in 2009 :-)

This is a painting I created this summer, I have it up in my bedroom and enjoy the simplicity of it. It is acrylic on canvas and is 28x24 cm in size.This is a little painting done in the beginning of 2009, I have used watercolour and inks here.I love orchids and was recently inspired into buying more plants after visiting a friend that had beautiful plants in flower....and a single rose, a brave soul taken before the snow came in December.

Happy Holidays.

I wish you all A Happy Holidays and hope you all have a wonderful 2010 full of great experiences, love and happiness! We have snow outside and it has been minus degrees a few days, It is ironical we have have had so much snow in Denmark while the conference on climate change has been happening in Copenhagen! There has fallen plenty more snow after these photos were taken!This is a small painting 20 x 20cm done on canvas, called Lotus.Christmas in my home this year .....

Memories from summer and my new moo frame

I was painting with my friend Sonja the other day and started this, she probably would not recognise it now as it has radically changed since she went home :-) It is only 20x20 cm and painted in acrylic on canvas.

The photo's are close-ups from summer, never got around to posting because of all the upheaval in my life and my new Moo frame that I really enjoyed putting my all Moo cards into.

A trip to Ærø and a wonderful week at an Art School

Please click on this picture to see it larger. I have been on a model drawing course. This type of drawing is called croquis, quick and sketchy drawing with a model with times from 15 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 7 minutes, 10 minutes and when we were very lucky 15 minutes. We had classed 3 times a day and believe me I was drawing in my dreams a few days after the course :-) The top yellow drawings are 3 done in 3 minutes, the pink in 1 minute and the rest are approximately 15 minutes. Below is a 15 minute drawing.... and finally a 15 second drawing ... phew!
I was staying at an Art School situated on an island called Ærø. Don't even try to pronounce Ærø if you are not Danish :-) Spelt Aeroe in English but it is nothing like the pronunciation. It took an hour drive and two ferries to get there, 6 hours in all and I enjoyed the trips to and fro. I took the car on the ferries with me.
This photo looks oldie worldie taken at the harbour at a place called Marstad, many people use bicycles in Denmark.
The Art School was old and quaint and had a few buildings attached to it, their homesite is here http://www.kunstaeroe.dk/index.html. They have long term courses in English (mainly young people) and short courses in Danish. We were people from different areas in life. Young, middle aged and people at the pension age.
This bell was rang before every delicious wholesome meal!...and this windmill was on a hill overlooking the school.The view from on top a a hill nearby, in the distance there is the water. Ærø is only a small island, it is 22,000 acres and has a population of 7000.One day I was out driving a little trip with another woman from the course and we came across this message. Translated it says ... "Warning, dog without a leash, if you meet the dog lie on the ground and wait for help. If no one comes good luck" :-) Oh dear, we were a bit scared but later asked about it with the owner, who had a mischievous look in her eyes while telling us she had no dog ... he he.

Moody Blue :-)

Blue is one of my favourite colours and I love blur photo's when they turn out well. I was at a drawing course othe week before last and I will post some of my work soon, it was an intensive week with lessons 3 times a day and I enjoyed every single minute. I was ill last week and not fully well yet but getting there :-) This is one of my homemade cards done months ago.

A difficult time.

My Mother died on the 8th June, she was 85 years old and was happy until the last couple of days. She was a wonderful person, my best friend and I miss her. This year has been a difficult year for me, my relationship with my partner has broken up, my cat died in June and I have been attacked at work a couple of times. Many people write their way out of this on their blog, my reaction has been to close down for a while and go inward. I love doing my blogs and it has been strange for me that I have not had the need or the surplus energy to express myself, definitely this post is one that I have not been looking forward to writing. I have neglected posting and looking through your inspiring blogs, I am very sorry for this.

The picture above is from one of my journals, done in early summer.Here are a couple of photo's from my garden taken in the midst of this colourful autumn. It has really been wonderful this year and I have enjoyed all the motives that have appreared while driving, really wanting to capture them all on camera.