Jessie Lilac Blog

The weather is changing rapidly now, I've managed to capture the glorious red leaves on my garden wall before they began to fall. Thankyou so much for helping me with my 'naming the girl' in my last post. It was one of the later suggestions on Facebook that felt so right, it's the name 'Fawn'. She looks quite deerlike I think, don't you? :) You might remember I bought some canvas boards a while ago and started by collaging them with background layers but the summer became so very busy I had no time to continue with them, that is until now. Abundance, 7 x 5 ins This one is called ' Abundance ' and her garden is full of red berries and copper tinted leaves. The fruits are ripe and the sun squeezes out its last warm rays. Gratitude, 7 x 5ins. This painting is called ' Gratitude '. Her heart thrives on beauty and love and she keeps safe her loving essence that pours gratitude quietly from her eyes. I'm going to lis...

Last night's sketchbook pages. Tumbling autumn leaves remind me that we're in a new season and the virginia creeper in my garden changes from green to red. One of the last blooms hang on in there! So you see, my mind is filled with the warm colours of autumn. I didn't have many flowers growing this year so not to be defeated, I've bought some bulbs that should flower in the winter so that will be something to look forward to won't it? A quick reminder to you too that the bids on my life drawings on Ebay are finishing in less than 24 hours and most of them are at 99p, almost a giveaway price! :) Please click here to see them. Have a lovely weekend!xx

It must be spring because my garden is beginning to come to life again. Time to do some tidying up, to make space for all  the new flowers to grow!  Thankyou for your lovely comments about my fish-loving daughter! It's amazing how her interest was there all along, who'd have known?  Blogger have allowed me to have my bloglist back hooray! You can now see it at last in the right hand sidebar. What with the Facebook changes and Blogger changes I've had a lot to learn lately! I hope you haven't had difficulties too. :)

I don't know how I managed to draw this today because this lady looks a lot more capable than I feel today! I've been suffering from a chest infection and haven't been able to do as much as I wanted to this week, my energy is quite low at the moment. Thankyou for all your lovely comments on my last post! I love to hear what shapes you make when you're doodling and drawing. I wonder what it says about us as a person? You can see here in the picture above I've included my usual leaf shapes again. I like them to be neat and controlled but they are often less than perfect. Make of that what you will! ;o) You might remember this watercolour painting I did last year. It's now available to you as a lovely print in my Etsy shop. Have a lovely weekend whatever you're doing and I'll see you again soon.xx