Hestia .... Creative Day 2

Friday started off completely miserable weather-wise.

So, I did too.

I dragged a very reluctant Nero out for a walk.  He padded along beside me, every fibre of his being screaming:  'Turn back! Turn back! This is no place for a dog with no body fat!! I want my breakfast, you sadistic, mad middle-aged THING.'

I, of course, was not listening to his fibres.



I was too busy brooding:

"This 30 day art projekt thing is a completely ridiculous idea," thought I. "However, I have told my dear reader that I'm going to do this for 30 days, so 30 days it is...."

So, that was that.  I was committed To The Cause.

The day was tricky - it wasn't just facebook keeping me glued to the screen. There has been an issue with a client's website that I had not a clue how to fix - a plug-in mysteriously stopped working - and I have been liaising with a lovely man called John at Easy Digital Downloads who has, today, shown me how to fix it.  So it now works.  Yay!

I was in a more relaxed frame of mind as the afternoon hove into view; with skies more leaden than a church roof and windier than a small boy after beans.

Because the weather was positively wintry, I did a bit of coffee drinking and reading in between fiddling around with internet stuffs:

Book on the left is mine, book on the right is the Library's.  If you are not a member of your local library, I would recommend that you join up right away.  I've been a member of a library since I was four years old.  Other than my family, it's probably been the most consistently reliable thing in my life:  A library will never let you down.

And yes, that IS my yoga mat that I'm using as a backdrop for the books. Books on a yoga mat.  That's how I roll ... *rebel till I DIE face*

Anyway, after reading about the experimental ways to do flowers, I thought that I would have a bash at lupins.  I can't do flowers - experimental or otherwise.

This is the result. If these look like lupins to you, I have succeeded.  I didn't even use watercolour paper because I was just mucking about. Why I decided to include my watercolours in the photo is a brain-farty mystery. These have CLEARLY been done by me and not downloaded from the internetubes.  Maybe that's what I was trying to prove: My paintbox, my daubings on the cave wall :)

The weather perked up for a little bit, so I went out with my camera and took a photo of my first Papaver Orientalis:

This will be turned into a watercolour over the weekend.  The rain came on with a vengeance and now the poppy is as tired and emotional-looking as a hen party on the plane back from Ibiza.

I'll show you the painting on Monday.

I bet you cannot.  wait.

Have a great Saturday and Sunday!