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Five favourite Spring colour palettes

May 10, 2010 – 12:03 pm

The weather has forgotten it is Spring and has produced a sequence of cold, grey, rainy days from which we should mercifully emerge at some stage this week. But I haven’t forgotten and valiantly decided to celebrate the season anyway by putting together my favourite colour palettes to use at this time of the year. [...]

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Feeling green

May 27, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Maybe it’s because I am craving a picnic on a lush green meadow with a glass of lemonade, but this is what I felt inspired to make today—a simple, refreshing background with layers of green acrylic washes over a thick layer of gesso. For some reason, though, it looks like it has measles in this [...]

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Getting ready to go

May 21, 2009 – 12:36 pm

I am off for a long weekend to celebrate my husband’s birthday—lots of walks planned (weather permitting) and a lovely Thai supper at Blue Elephant. Before I go though, I wanted to share one last taste of Spring in bloom. See you on Monday!

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Spring in Sardinia

April 15, 2009 – 12:58 pm

I have just returned from the most luxuriant Spring I have ever experienced. After a mild, wet winter, north-eastern Sardinia was in full bloom, and what a bloom. The colours were dazzling—the vivid yellow of mimosa and gorse, the pale purple of topped lavender, the candid white of rock rose, against tall verdant grasses, deep [...]

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Spring views on a grey day

April 8, 2009 – 10:26 am

Today the sky is as grey as it gets, laden with unshed rain, You can almost feel the dampness weighing on you. But we had some signs of Spring blooming a few days ago, which I captured on my camera. I am enjoying them while I wait for the weather to improve (and my weather-induced [...]

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