Poppies and Pittenweem

The Pittenweem Art Festival has begun and the little town was crowded yesterday. I'm hoping for a few sales since the East Neuk Art Club exhibition is on at the same time but there are so many good works of art around at this time that any sale is something to be pleased about!

In the meantime, I've been experimenting with some more ink and paint and pastel works:

Poppies

Acrylic and Ink

Poppies

Pastel and Ink

Cambo and the Edinburgh Drawing School

I have spent most of the last week at Cambo House, near to where I live, on an art course, run by the Edinburgh Drawing School, with the artist Paul Mowat. It was an intense few days which certainly got me out of my comfort zone as far as painting and drawng is concerned.

On one of the hotest days of the year it was pleasant to wander through Cambo woods and select a couple of places to do some sketching. Unfortunately, we had to work in charcoal and chalk pastels - a couple of media I never feel confident with. But, I found a couple of lovely spots in the woods:

These drawings were used as the basis for a selection of mixed media works - block printing on a randomly painted ground followed by a little more carefully targetted painting. The results, which are mirror images due to the printing process, are very different from my usual work:

 More to follow............