Been Busy painting

ILLUSTRATIONS .

Eastbourne Pier Painting

https://www.etsy.com/listing/108201233/eastbourne-pier-12-x-8-art-print?ref=v1_other_1

Watercolour Blue tit attempt

I decided to have a go at a blue tit bird with watercolours,  for a first attempt i'm quite pleased with this little bird, i painted on bristol board paper.

Menorca

When we went to menorca i took loads of photo's , hopefully i'll be able to make a few paintings from my time there.

Brought my new Printer !!!!

So today , I made the decision to take some money out of my savings to buy a new printer!
I chose the Canon IX6550 photo inkjet printer .
It seems brilliant so far , also it's a A3 printer, so i can now choose to print in Big ,

the colours are great, i printed out an Art Print of my work and it came out exact to colour representation to the original. very pleased

I brought inks too , not realising they came with all the inks so i now have Loads of ink tanks .

I printed out a cute photo of the kids from our holiday in menorca too and framed it for the living room . The photo came out brilliantly with glossy photo paper.
the ink is chromalife 100+ meaning it lasts a Lifetime*

My etsy

menorca painting

http://www.etsy.com/shop/NatashaPerkinsArt

Practicing watercolour

This is a zoom in of a recent painting I've done , it's a part of a bicycle wheel , paving and a wall.  I quite like how Watercolour bleeds into the shape you desire , has a kind of freedom about it , like who cares that the bike reflector turned into a orange blob, the joy of art is although people can give critique ,it can't actually be wrong, art can't go wrong if you say that's how it's meant to be. Watercolour allows me to not be obsessive over the edges like with other mediums, it's fun, I'm not all that great at it, but it is a learning curve for me.

Manor Road , Dorset

Swanage Dorset , i was about 12 years old & it was a holiday with my family, we stayed in a large house which belonged to my Dad's Friend. it was a lovely house with lots of rooms and outlook to a street i remember a white house with blue window frames, and the house we was in sat at the top of a steep hill , you went round the corner and you could see over the town to the sea. it was very nice. my room looked out that way ,i remember a lot of ivy had taken over a few windows and wouldn't let my sister open it in case of spiders, the back garden somewhat resembled the gate to secret garden too.
Anyways i thought i would paint the street that i remember,  the house we stayed in is on the left . with the Ivy!

Starting to Paint again and Blogging about it too

So here i am, starting to paint again  , i spent many teenage years pursuing art. at College , at a homeless outreach getting homeless people to paint too. and at home..

I'm now at home with my 2 young children and have found i can start painting.

I've always like Acrylics, but have decided to venture into Watercolour's and found i actually quite like them . my initial intention was to do miniature paintings for my other hobby Dollshousing. since getting my paints out though i've found i've been quite happy with an A4 sheet of paper .

Scanning into a computer then printing out is quite strangely satisfying ...i'm a bit odd .but this is handy having a scanner because i can add my paintings to my blog ..yay.

Natasha xx

to start with here's a painting i did of my younger sister in 2010