Jessie Lilac Blog

Evening Peace, acrylic on canvas board. Gosh! After that very unusual post from yesterday, I'm pleased to see you still here! Let me show you  my new artwork. Glittering Stars, acrylic on canvas board. I love sparkly things don't you? I had a lot of fun adding the shiny gold to these two new paintings. You can't really tell from the photo above but  if they're held towards the light, they sparkle!  Each one measures 7 x 10 inches and I've listed the originals on  Etsy at £40. That's roughly about $66 to my USA friends. I do worldwide shipping and any currency is taken. :) If you'd like these designs on a mug or a cushion (pillow), or maybe a tote bag or a phone case? Here's a screenshot of my Society6 shop . Please pop over and have a look. :) You can even get this one as a clock! So which one would you choose? :) Thankyou for looking! xx

What's happened to the weather? It's raining and windy and my gas was switched of all day yesterday so it was cold too! This little sketch popped into my sketchbook from my windy head. I finished this painting on canvas above a few days ago, it's called 'Safe Harbour' and soon after finished the other painting (with the bird flying a kite) too. I didn't have a name for it until the end and I decided upon 'Summer Breeze'. That was a day when the sun was still shining but the wind was beginning to stir. Summer Breeze sounds quite soothing doesn't it and I quite like the song of the same name. :) That guitar intro takes me back to being 13 before teenage angst really set in! Windy and rainy it might be but my latest painting is filled with a peaceful setting of pattern and colour. I like textures and the effects of different painting techniques and I'm trying to balance randomness with pattern. Not an easy ta...

The garden is sparkling from rain, the sun is low. The virginia creeper shows the reddening signs. But my heart is still at the sea-side!  That's my perpetual spinach growing on the window sill, it still thinks it's summer too and you can just about make out my deckchair outside. I'm not about to take that in, not yet. My painting is finished but I'm not finished with the summer yet. Are you? ;)

Some pages from my sketchbook while I was in Cornwall. Lovely Cornwall! Now I'm back home my thoughts turn to the exhibition I have in a week or so. It's a '2 man'  show and I'm sharing the space with an artist friend that I met many years ago at art college. Her paintings are very different to mine but we've exhibited together before and I feel they compliment eachother very well. I'll share photos here once they're up on the walls but until then, here are a couple of paintings I'll be showing... They're both acrylic on canvas. CLICK HERE for more information. :)

This is my painting for this week's Illustration Friday word.  I first drew it with a black fineliner pen, added watercolour and finished the shading with coloured pencils. I don't know why I'm drawing fish recently, it could be the shape. They're similar to leaves aren't they, and teardrops or raindrops? I tend to draw a lot of spirals too.  What shapes do you have a tendency to draw? (close-up view) Don't forget I have a 10% discount in my Etsy shop this week! :)

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Stream of Consciousness As I painted I let the picture tell me what to do. I pour myself onto the page and wait until tomorrow for the answer.

Teetering on the edge, holding tightly onto dreams and wishes so they don't blow away in the wind.