Painting & Earrings #419

Hi all, it's time to share my workdesk again. If you want to know what this is about, head over to http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/, where Julia will explain all.

This week, I've been trying to improve my drawing and painting. I found it useful to find & print a picture online and to copy it, making variations.


So I was interested to see this article in the Guardian newspaper, about how children can be the best art teachers, and for them to recommend copying slowly as a way of improving.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/10/why-children-make-the-best-teachers

 I've also been watching a fantastic new series on the BBC, on the Art of Japan, and have fallen in love with a painting by Sesshu called Splashed Ink Landscape, below.


Can you believe this was painted in the year 1495? Around the same time that Leonardo da Vinci was painting the  Last Supper?? It's so impressionist. Now that's a painting I'll never be able to copy!

I've also been working out how to make myself some lapis lazuli earrings, with an infinity connector charm from the Silver Corporation.

I'm hoping I can put one lapis coin into the larger part of the infinity hoop, and dangle another off the bottom. I've just ordered them, so we'll see next time.

While I was photographing my desk, Thea decided that it's her turn to star on this blog, rather than Dino, and came and sat on me for an hour to make sure.

So have a good week, all! Please don't apologise for visiting late or not visiting, I think this circle is for us to enjoy as best we can. 


We're not all going to visit everyone or post every week, and that's fine with me, and, I hope, with you. hugs, Lynne xxx