Just Small Pictures

 Philosophers Go Bird Watching, 4 colour bics on paper

 A birthday card in egg tempera

Waiting for the sea to rise, coloured biro

Painting of the Moment

 Sunshine on the Washing a work in progress. I've tweaked my egg tempera medium so that, hopefully it won't crack and fall off the paintings

 Underneath is an elephant for colouring in. Not something that I'm interested in doing.

Once upon a time this was a landscape for an exhibition. The egg tempera didn't respond well to something [This doesn't happen all that often]. So I've scrapped it off and begun again.

 

Grass Suite

I just love the massed dead grass.

Bird Watching

Bird Watching

Zak The Ghost of My Heart

 

 I'm not quite finished, but very close and happy.

Zah White Over Black

It has taken awhile to get something new to its finish, but finally.

An Evenings Walk

After the heat has gone out of the day and before the sun is completely gone I quite enjoy a walk.

As Darkness Falls

I though of Monet's waterlillies, but there's sure to be someone more appropriate.

Summer Days

 Dahlias in the low light of New Years Eve.

 I turned a corner and there they were in their discrete beauty. When I was a child they were flowers that Grandma's grew and looked the same, now their subtlety encourages me.

 And in our garden magnolias burst forth one by one.

 I was out hunting weeds and enjoying the variety of plants, insects and the sounds of birds. I'm maintaining a grassland that really wants to go back to forest. One day we will live there again and livestock will do the job for me, but I probably won't see the glory of these plants getting to go through their life cycle.

 In the top left hand corner is a spider. I saw and walked through so many webs.

 I was drawn to the lines drawn in nature by the decaying tree.

Rushes are something that I don't want when 'farming', but they have such a wonderful form.

A Nativity Mural

The kids at Jaffas worked on this. I had to do a bit of finishing off, but love the effects.

Zae Between Joy and Despair

The journey of Zae Between Joy and Despair