Christmas ~ and as we are planning a very special reunion in December with family and friends we haven’t seen for ten years, it seemed appropriate to repost an image from ten years ago. So here is Sidney Slapstick (I knitted him in 2002 and he first appeared on my blog in 2014).
Have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a peaceful, healthy and creative New Year.
‘The View’ is a little something I made for this year’s Christmas market at Sumner.* The painting is of our beautiful Kaikoura coastline as seen from the Port Hills in Christchurch. I found a $5 frame at a recycling depot, removed the seriously ugly dried flower art that was in it, and painted a landscape on canvas to complement the mahogany-coloured wood (see photograph below). It was such a fun project, I may have to go in search of more frames that need rescuing.
*I’ll be selling my art cards and a few of my smaller paintings at the Sumner Market in Christchurch this coming Sunday 13th and also Sunday 20th December, 10 am – 2 pm.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas holiday and a creative New Year.
Below are a few snaps I took of our little market on Saturday ― by all accounts, a successful day. We’ll be popping up again on December 13th and 20th… plenty of time to paint a few more mini macro roses : )
A slight deviation from my usual Shoot it, Sketch it on a Monday, this little rainbow cross stitch is an original design based on a watercolour sketch (below) that I painted many, many years ago : )
Another illustration from the vaults. This seahorse image was made using a stamp carved out of a rubber/eraser (see below) and then edited digitally.
As he is currently quite purple, I’d say the last time I used him was on the ‘breathing underwater’ pages of my Book without boundaries project in 2010.
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 