sunshine awards

irina ... spasiba ! thankyou !

shristi ....thankyou so much

THIS AWARD IS GIVEN TO BLOGGERS FOR SHARING THEIR POSITIVITY AND
CREATIVITY

i feel very lucky to have been awarded two sunshine awards this week one by irina and another by shristi :D :D ....thankyou both so much .......i'd like to give a sunshine award to both shristi and irina as a way my appreciation .... in turn i 'm happy to award sunshine awards to the following blogs and wonderful artist ..i hope you enjoy visiting their blogs as much as i do.

• jean haines
• maggie
• kat farmer
• susan liles
• fernando pena
• anna morales puigcerver
• debbie shciff
• guilli
• joanna pijlman
• cheryl
• melissa
• stephie butler
• sandeep khedkar
• nurset topuzoglu
• kay smith
• milly
• marina
• sarah wimperis
• sandy maudlin
• amanda spencer
• june conte -pryor
  
  

.......if you accept this award please

1. post the logo on your blog or in your post or both

2.pass this onto 12 bloggers (with 2 awards i decided to name more :) )

3. let them know they have been awarded

4.link the person who awarded you in the first place

time for "potatura" - time for pruning

© JANE MINTER

" secateurs "
painted from life

......it's time to prune our vines .... made a quick study of the secateurs today .... "forbici"

end of the winter

" seed heads"

"honesty"


........a few photos i took today

tulip washes

© JANE MINTER
"tulip wash"
watercolour wash
watercolour
32x41cm
pink tulips ....experimenting with waterclour washes

tulip sketches

last years A4 washes

recent sketch

a view of St.Pauls from the Millenium Bridge...sketch

......this is a quick sketch i enjoyed painting the other day of a view i love of St. Pauls from the Millenium Bridge ...in the rain St. Pauls appears so white.

Watercolour PAINTING by Jean - Louis Morelle - Rosehips step by step by Ewa Karpinska

last year at Jean Haines' workshop Jean recommended a wonderful book by Jean-Louis Morelle "Watercolour PAINTING" ...... my painting is one of the many exercises and step by steps i have enjoyed following and painting from his book ... Rosehips step by step by Ewa Karpinska .... i have since brought Ewa Karpiska's book "wet on wet watercolour painting " which is excellent.

details of Jean Morelle book can be found on his site http://www.jean-louis-morelle.com/

another venice sketch

venice sketch iii

venice sketches

venice sketch i

venice washes sketch ii

initial sketches and washes of venice ...i'm working on townscapes and street scenes for my course

vineyard in the snow sketch

snow blue vines sketch

snow scene study

pines + snow

WIP using masking fluid and masking tape

i painted this last year inspired by an article in SAA by Paul Talbolt march 2005 .

the patterns of the lower branches of the pines in the forest are beautiful with the snow and clear clear blue skies.... the painting was based on many photos i took whilst walking in the mountains ..... as we have just come back from the mountains this w-e i wanted to share a few of my snow scenes to date here...

cachi ...persimmons still life study

.... thanks to kay smith for the wonderful colourful reference ...we have three of these fruit trees in our garden ... when the leaves fall in nov the bright orange persimmons "cachi" which remain look wonderful.

honesty - sketches and studies

"honesty"
lunaria
watercolour study
32 x 41cm

32 x 41cm

"honesty" #2
watercolour study
32 x 41cm

..........studies made today of honesty no pencil painting from life

"honesty"
watercolour wash 
A5

"honesty" 
watercolour sketch 
A5



"honesty"
watercolour study 
A5

.......small postcard studies and sketches 2009

chinese latterns

© JANE MINTER
"chinese latterns "
crop



© JANE MINTER

"chinese latterns"