Joyous

Violets — ink, watercolour and digital, 2015
Violets — ink, watercolour and digital, 2015

“The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.” Michael Leunig

The quote is from Holy Fool, a wonderful book crammed full of Michael Leunig’s art ― not his cartoons but his playful, colourful, joyful paintings and drawings. Highly recommended.

Violets in the kitchen, original photograph, 2015
Violets in the kitchen, original photograph, 2015

4 thoughts on “Joyous

    1. Thanks, Janina. It’s funny you should say that because I almost didn’t draw the bottles… but then the violets looked lonely sitting on the windowsill by themselves and so I kept going : )

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