You can purchase this original painting in my Etsy store, or purchase prints and products featuring this work in my Redbubble store.
Night Fire
Tag: starry night
Rainbow on a purple sky
I love my swirly rainbow trees! In this version, I used a purple and magenta starry night sky as a background for the vibrant rainbow coloured trees.
You can purchase this original painting from my Etsy store, or purchase prints and products such as apparel, stationery and home decor from my Redbubble store.
UPDATE: The original painting is now SOLD! You can still purchase prints, or contact me if you’d like me to paint something similar for you.
Nightfall in the garden
A starry night falls in a colourful garden of trees.
This original painting is available for purchase in my Etsy store. Prints and other products available via Redbubble.
Moonlit trees 2
Watercolour painting of trees silhouetted against a starry moonlit sky. Painted on high quality 8″ x 10″ (20cm x 25cm) watercolour paper. Available for purchase via my Etsy store.
Illustration Friday – Love
This week’s topic over at Illustration Friday is ‘love’. I haven’t participated in one of these prompts in a really long time – I think the last one was back in January 2011 (and ironically, that post is all about how my new year’s resolution was to participate in prompts more often. Whoops.) I decided to participate this week because the topic is one that really suits my painting style.
One of my favourite things to do is represent people as trees, showing the relationships between the people using colour, size, spacing and other elements.
In one of my most recent paintings, I used two trees to represent the love of a couple. I represented the theme of ‘love’ in a variety of ways. Firstly, the trees themselves are shaped like hearts. You will also notice many hearts in the swirls of the leaves if you look closely. I painted the trees very close together, overlapping. I also deliberately allowed the paint to run and mix at the point where the trees touched – I wanted to convey the way that in a close relationship, people become part of one another. I used the a mix of the red and blue in the colours of the sky to also show this connection.
You can purchase this original painting from my Etsy Store or my Facebook page. Prints and art products available at RedBubble and Society6.
Illustration Friday – Star Gazing
I was delighted to discover that this week’s challenge over at Illustration Friday is “Star Gazing”. I was recently requested to paint something similar to my “When it is Dark Enough” painting, and was part way through it when I found out about this topic.
Here’s the finished product – I’ve titled it “The Stargazers”:
