Tuesday 5 January 2010

SNOWDROPS IN ACRYLIC

In January 2008 when I was runninga GALLERY as well as a BLOG site, I posted the above gold and cream version of snowdrops in my series called BY THE WINDOW.

Since taking the girls back home after three days with us over New Year so that our daughter could really celebrate without any family commitments and staying to celebrate their other nanny's 70th birthday, I have wanted to get my acrylic paints out and play. Here is the result of using an image in my archives of the original snowdrops and simply playing with colour and texture - and I even cut strips of a leather type fabric to create striped curtains. I added patterns to reflect all the other colours in the painting.
Here is my latest version. It was fun just doing whatever I fancied and they certainly look very different. More painterly I feel and less decorative.

Friday 1 August 2008

CONSOLIDATING MY TWO BLOGS

If you happen to open this gallery blog, you'll see Ive not entered much of late, so decided it would be as well to simply just keep my art journal blog going (http://joansandfordcook.blogspot.com/ ) .

If anyone is interested in purchasing any of my works posted in either blog or commissioning any garden, floral or church piece , please get in touch via my email link on the right of both blogs. I work in watercolours, acrylics and oils. Even have a wonderful set of Ashby pastels I get out from time to time.

Here are samples:


Watercolour floral .............Acrylic floral


Church acrylic ....................Church oil

Bye for now - Joannie

Wednesday 21 May 2008

WHITE LILIES IN ACRYLIC

I thought it was about time I added something to the gallery and now I have added a background to my satisfaction to bring out the strong shapes of the flowers, I have chosen the pair of acrylic paintings of lilies from my garden I started last year. The flower shapes have been created with acrylic paste, giving them a 3D effect and then painted. I have added gold and copper paints and beeds to make the works more decorative.
1 WHITE ARUM LILIES WITH COPPER BACKGROUND AND BEEDS
2 WHITE LILIES WITH COPPER BACKGROUND AND STAMENS
Although shown framed here in this posting, they are for sale as unframed canvases 16 x 20"
at £185 plus postage at cost.

Thursday 8 May 2008

RECENT CHURCH WORK

1 All Saints Church Ruin Hainford Norfolk Oil Painting 16 x 20" framed @ £185

2 St John the Baptist Coltishall in Snowdrop Time Watercolour 12 x 16" original mounted and framed @ £145 or mounted prints at £55

3 St John the Baptist Coltishall across the allotments watercolour 12 x 16" original framed and mounted at £145 or mounted prints at £55

4 St Bartolphs Church Grimston Norfolk Oil Painting 16 x 12" original framed @ £165

Since moving to the Norfolk Broads I have been very interested in the local churches, sketching and painting around the many villages. From time to time these have been posted on my art journal blog, but I have now decided to add them to my gallery for sale. Postage and packing at cost.

Monday 18 February 2008

INDIGENOUS FLOWERS OF SOUTH AFRICA



1. KAFFERBOOM TREE
2. KING PROTEUS
Both these watercolours were painted whilst I was in South Africa last Autumn. Painted on Saunders Waterford 20 x 16 inch HP paper with Sennelier watercolours. They are for sale unframed but mounted at £155 plus postage and packing.

Thursday 7 February 2008

FRENCH AND FENLAND FIELDS

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1 MISTY MORNING IN SW FRANCE
2 MURROW HARVEST TIME
Similar ideas but one in France and the other in the Fenland of England. Both in acrylic.
The French scene is where we used to visit often with friends on the edge of the Dordogne and painted on 16 x 16 inch box canvas. The Fenland one depicts fields behind our last home in Murrow painted on acrylic paper, highly textured in the foreground, mounted and framed. Both priced £175 plus postage and packing.

Sunday 3 February 2008

SECRET GARDEN SERIES cont'd...

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1 A WALK IN THE GARDEN
2 FAIRY GLEN
These are two other paintings in this series (as the Bumble Bee painting was sold it was posted mid January in my journal blog ) . Both were from my imagination with lots of texture/collage in the Walk in the Garden piece. Both acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches at £175 plus postage and packing.