Magenta Teapot

 Every now and then I need to paint a teapot. (I drink a lot of tea!).  Here is a quick sketchy painting. The shapes and the tonal values were from observation of a little round teapot. The colour palette was from my imagination and not what I saw in real life. A mixture of the seen and the invented to make a colourful vibrant image using inky water soluble pencils in my sketchbook.

Foliage Still Life in Blue and Purple

My starting point was a photograph of a moody and decorative collage made on a dark winter's day out of cut and torn fragments from another piece along with crystalline watercolour to bring out the forms. Multiplying, transforming and layering the image I made variations on my iPad. The original collage is the first image followed by three of my favourites from the sequence.

Red vase in winter

Another fruit of my digital experimentation working out how to make interesting and attractive images on my iPad.

Lavender

Drawn from observation using a range of iPad apps to explore the fragrant brittleness  of lavender in a vase.

Paeonies

A vase of paeonies - is this cheating? To take my photograph and turn it into this using tcouchscreen technology and an app? Or is it the future beckoning?

Tulip season

Another quick digital sketch from observation

Monochrome teapot

Another digital still life sketch on the ipad