"Spikey Flowers" by Lynda Cookson

This is a real life painting for sale today! It's available as an instant digital image download as well, where you can print it larger than the original, but right now this original has been put up for sale and you can find it here :

"Spikey Flowers"  Watercolour

14" x 10" or 36 x 26 cms

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"Lion Cub" as an instant image download

I recently had cause to produce some black art pen and watercolour sketches of African wild life. I loved being taken back to my roots and will never tire of depicting wild animals. This was the first one I did ... "Lion Cub" available here as an instant image download. (Just click on the image)

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Big White Flowers

"Big White Flowers" is so fresh and bold. It feels free and full of sunshiny happiness to me.

Just like today ... we have another really beautiful and warm sunny day with clear skies. What ever happened to winter on the coast of Brittany this year I just don't know. I'm sitting here with a cool top on and a thin cardigan, with only one pair of socks to keep my toes warm. Crazy to be so toasty, without a heater on, in what is usually deepest coldest winter.

This painting is immediately downloadable as an image for you to print and you can find it here ... https://www.etsy.com/listing/684216819/big-white-flowers-instant-digital-image?ref=shop_home_active_1


I've also uploaded some room settings for you to see what it'll look like.

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Be My Valentine

Another challenge painting (which, funnily enough, I did use a palette knife on when I was moving the paint in the middle of the two big red flowers!) ... watercolour on Yupo Paper.

I find it keeps me fresh to be fiddling with watercolour or a craft object during the palette knife painting of a more formal painting. Otherwise I tend to fiddle with the formal painting and usually ruin it in some way LOL

"Be My Valentine"
Watercolour on Yupo Paper
8" x 12" (20 cm x 30 cm)

"Be My Valentine" by Lynda Cookson

My website : http://lyndacookson.blogspot.fr/p/30-paintings-in-30-days-challenge.html

This is the video, taken by Eileen Lauster of Buster Drive Productions, in May 2012. Watch in on YouTube here : http://youtu.be/RhCZPc84_94

Naga Headhunter Skulls

I had loads of fun this week researching and producing this painting (which looks a bit darker in this image than it actually is) about the Naga headhunters from the Himalayas. We're invited to the first birthday party of The Co-Op, a pub and restaurant in Moycullen, where I'll be opening The Painter's Palette in a couple of weeks time (in Moycullen, not in The Co-Op!), so this painting is their birthday present.

I so enjoyed myself ... actually painting in the kitchen on top of the chest freezer because my studio's table is full of other paraphenalia until I open the gallery ... that I think I'll develop the two studies I did, a little further and see if they can turn out okay too.

I've been wanting to experiment with watercolour again for a while now - although I cheated here, as I usually seem to do - by using acrylic paper and not watercolour paper. I also tried out a new method of printing (well, it's new to me anyhow) using the image I printed on my office printer and acrylic gloss medium. 'Twas fun!