An i-pad is a marvellous tool for planning your composition. My daily paintings are square and instead of using a little viewfinder and squinting, I can take a photo on my i-pad and crop it to a square. There is also a choice of other formats. Here is the photo as taken by the i-pad. Be sure to take your photo from where you'll stand or sit when painting, or all the angles will be different. In the top right corner it says Edit. Click this. The crop tool is the second tool from the … [Read more...]
Snowdrops – how I love the Spring
Having lived most of my l;ife in South Africa, my birthday month was the hottest month of the year with with bougainvillea filled garden, patio birthday parties, swimming in the sea etc. Now that I live here, it is more of a slow progression of seasons. We move through the colour spectrum - white (snow and snowdrops) yellow (daffs & crocusses) Blues, (bluebells, crocusses, violets) and then we burst into colour in summer. But at first, it's a gentle change. There is not really much of a … [Read more...]