Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
eBay Store CLOSING SALE
eBay Store CLOSING SALE from now until the last day of April 2017
159 PAINTINGS ON SALE
Please click "See More" to see how to purchase below ..... you will need to message me before you buy!!!
All paintings priced at $9.85 now $6 plus shipping
You will need to message me before you buy
All paintings priced at $15 now $10 plus shipping
You will need to message me before you buy
All paintings priced at $18 now $12 plus shipping
You will need to message me before you buy
All paintings priced at $20 now $15 plus shipping
You will need to message me before you buy
All paintings priced at $25 now $16 plus shipping
You will need to message me before you buy
All other painting prices are unaltered but if you message me with a reasonable and sensible offer I may be able to consider it (This is not a definite! It depends on the painting!). Hint: For these paintings above $25 please don't offer me a price less than 85% of the present sales price (That's a 15% discount) Shipping will be added to the price, as normal.
I have repeated "You will need to message me before you buy" because if you buy first, then message me afterwards, higher eBay and PayPal fees will be charged. Higher fees will be for your account - and even I would like to avoid that!
Reason for SALE : From 1 May we are going traveling! Indefinitely. And I don't want to be tied down to eBay Store listing renewals. I would love it if you kept in touch with me, and my available paintings, through my WildSummers.com website. My contact details are there.
Some of the available paintings :
Monday, March 27, 2017
"Tulips in Blue Glass"
"Tulips in Blue Glass" a study in ink for the return of Spring!
Click to purchase ...
http://stores.ebay.com/thepainterspaletteoriginalart
Click to purchase ...
Friday, March 24, 2017
There's a fairground being set
There's a fairground being set up in our local town of Josselin - probably by this weekend - so in celebration of me hopefully getting there to take pics .... here's "Fairground" ... one of my favourites for sale from my studio ...
http://stores.ebay.com/thepainterspaletteoriginalar
Friday, March 17, 2017
A Bit of Flying Fun. My Traveling Chickens Blog No. 3 (The Final)
After their exciting (and excitable!) visit to La Ville Oger, here in Morbihan (Brittany, France) Team Chicken needed a bit of light-hearted fun.
"Our left legs are still all creaky and stiff from hours in the Post Lady's van" they complained.
We had been packing up all our goods and chattels because we're selling almost everything and going traveling for a few years. Milly the Motorhome is waiting patiently outside, ready to roll when we say the word. but ... it meant that life was a little restricted during Team Chicken's visit and there was not much room for running around, getting exercise, and generally getting in trim for their long flight back too the States. There are way too many boxes and paintings and stuff littered around the floor space.
Mr Dog the Pilot had a brilliant idea. He doesn't get much of a chance to show off his piloting skills, so he suggested he give everyone rides on the front of his plane, one by one. Because they had to use all their leg muscles to stay balanced while he flew around, those cramped left legs would soon loosen up.
"Our left legs are still all creaky and stiff from hours in the Post Lady's van" they complained.
We had been packing up all our goods and chattels because we're selling almost everything and going traveling for a few years. Milly the Motorhome is waiting patiently outside, ready to roll when we say the word. but ... it meant that life was a little restricted during Team Chicken's visit and there was not much room for running around, getting exercise, and generally getting in trim for their long flight back too the States. There are way too many boxes and paintings and stuff littered around the floor space.
Mr Dog the Pilot had a brilliant idea. He doesn't get much of a chance to show off his piloting skills, so he suggested he give everyone rides on the front of his plane, one by one. Because they had to use all their leg muscles to stay balanced while he flew around, those cramped left legs would soon loosen up.
Did I mention that this is a very noisy visit that Team Chicken are enjoying? Yeah, well, it never seems to stop!
The racket that little yellow airplane made as it whizzed through tunnels of boxes, narrowly missing getting the wings caught on the handles of bags holding books, and doing the loop-da-loop at break-neck speed between the huge, ancient beams on the ceiling ... was simply incredible! Not to mention the squeals of delight and screeches of terror which seemed to alternate as each member of Team Chicken enjoyed their turn and begged for more, scuffling and niggling in the queue.
"Me next!"
"No! You've just had a turn!"
"Didn't"
"Did. Saw you."
"Hey! Don't elbow me!"
I must say, Mr Dog is actually quite the pilot! He never lost control once, kept his passengers well balanced, and clung tightly to their legs during the upside-down bit of the loop-da-loops so they wouldn't fall off. There was a huge round of applause for him when he finally called in tired and shoo-ed the fun-loving chickens out of their expectant queue.
Finally, there was quiet in the house and an exhausted Team Chicken had a good sleep before they caught their flight back home to Pandalana.
What an absolute delight it had been to host such a feisty and fun-loving crew.
Lynda Cookson
Her artwork can be found here: http://WildSummers.com
and her writing here: http://roadtripswithmilly.blogspot.fr/
and here: http://paintingsonimpulse.blogspot.fr/
Josselin - France
A Rush of Tweeting and Yellow Stuff. My Traveling Chickens Blog No. 2
"What is that incredible scratching and high-pitched sound which is coming nearer and nearer?" asked Senor Azul during their photoshoot, his eyes bulging from their sockets with fear. Team Chicken's visit was turning out to be a very noisy visit indeed. "I saw a flash of yellow! Very fast moving yellow!" he yelled.
"You're travel weary and just seeing the reflections from the Daffodils" his compatriots informed him. "Now sit still and stop rustling the flowers!"
Team Chicken went quickly into action, squawking and flapping their wings and chasing yellow Easter chicks back into their box with the force of a sou' easter gale. However, a few of the brave chicks held their ground, refusing to budge until they were allowed to be part of the photoshoot.
"We have to be seen and get our voices heard out there in the Big Wide World. It's a disgrace that we have been packed away for so long, missing at least three Easter seasons!" their leader cheeped loudly. "And we'd like our leaders to accompany Team Chicken back to the States so that we can continue to reach more people."
"You're travel weary and just seeing the reflections from the Daffodils" his compatriots informed him. "Now sit still and stop rustling the flowers!"
Was it the yellow from these Daffodils he could see?
And then all hell broke loose.
In a strong whoosh! of a breeze, just like the recent weather we've been having, hundreds of fluffy yellow balls with orange bits landed on the photoshoot table, accompanied by the loudest tweeting noise you have ever, in your whole life, heard! Our photoshoot was being invaded by little yellow alien fluff balls!
The chaos of yellow and orange turned out to be loads of Easter chicks who had been packed away in a box for a few years, being moved that way from Ireland to France, and not having been unpacked since the move. And they were angry!
Easter chicks yelling their anger at Team Chicken
Team Chicken went quickly into action, squawking and flapping their wings and chasing yellow Easter chicks back into their box with the force of a sou' easter gale. However, a few of the brave chicks held their ground, refusing to budge until they were allowed to be part of the photoshoot.
"We have to be seen and get our voices heard out there in the Big Wide World. It's a disgrace that we have been packed away for so long, missing at least three Easter seasons!" their leader cheeped loudly. "And we'd like our leaders to accompany Team Chicken back to the States so that we can continue to reach more people."
Here's Team Chicken negotiating with the Easter Chick leaders
And so it happened that way. The photoshoot was wrapped up with the chicks keeping fairly quiet and behaving well, and their leaders joined Team Chicken in their box, now winging its way back to Pandalana in the States.
What a relief. That invasion could have turned out badly ... but how could it! It's totally impossible for Easter chicks to be nasty in any way whatsoever. They're cute and fluffy and smell of chocolate Easter Eggs.
Team Chicken should be given full credit for the diplomacy and wisdom they have learned on their travels around the world.
Lynda Cookson
Her artwork can be found here: http://WildSummers.com
and her writing here: http://roadtripswithmilly.blogspot.fr/
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Palette Knife Painters: "Hercules" by Lynda Cookson
Palette Knife Painters: "Hercules" by Lynda Cookson: I haven't painted horses for years now but "Hercules" has always been one of my favourites - which is probably why I have hel...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017
Friday, March 03, 2017
The Traveling Chicken: Post Lady Mystified by Clucking Parcel
The Traveling Chicken: Post Lady Mystified by Clucking Parcel: Responding to a sharp rapping on the window last week, we saw a very worried face appear on the other side of the glass. It was Post Lady C...
(Please click the blue link at the beginning of the above paragraph to read the whole blog. Thanks)
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
"Breaking Through"
"Breaking Through" ... I love this abstract. I can feel the sun,
the warmth of that sun, a warm evening sky, the sea, and the white foam
of the waves.
A residency at the restored stone cottage famine village of Cill Rialaig, near Ballinskelligs in Co Kerry, Ireland, was the inspiration for this acrylic on board. The strong winter wind whipped the foam from the top of the waves and blew it against the cliffs. That, together with the sense of all the ancient (and not so ancient) lives lived there created a very spiritual atmosphere. Absolutely wonderful weather and wonderful inspiration!
"Breaking Through" is for sale HERE ... or just click the image and you'll be taken through to the correct page where you'll find the price and the size of the painting.
http://stores.ebay.com/thepainterspaletteoriginalar
A residency at the restored stone cottage famine village of Cill Rialaig, near Ballinskelligs in Co Kerry, Ireland, was the inspiration for this acrylic on board. The strong winter wind whipped the foam from the top of the waves and blew it against the cliffs. That, together with the sense of all the ancient (and not so ancient) lives lived there created a very spiritual atmosphere. Absolutely wonderful weather and wonderful inspiration!
"Breaking Through" is for sale HERE ... or just click the image and you'll be taken through to the correct page where you'll find the price and the size of the painting.
Monday, January 09, 2017
The Wise Owl and Purity
I have recently had the pleasure of swapping ACEOs with Nathifa Simon of
The Artful Planner (Facebook page), an artist in the UK ... I chose her
"Wise Owl" and she chose my "Purity".
ACEOs are Art Cards Editions and Originals; are strictly 3.5" x 2.5" in size and, although often sold, are way better swapped! Next swap coming up with Marion Hedger
Anyone else up for an ACEO swap?
ACEOs are Art Cards Editions and Originals; are strictly 3.5" x 2.5" in size and, although often sold, are way better swapped! Next swap coming up with Marion Hedger
Anyone else up for an ACEO swap?
"The Wise Owl" by Nathifa Simon
"Purity" by Lynda Cookson
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Saturday, August 27, 2016
"Coffee Now!"
Here's a bright little fella to start (or continue) your day in the right direction ... and I'm sure we can all relate to "Coffee Now!"
He's rather special to me as he was inspired by the incredibly noisy barn owls which inhabit the eaves of our 400 year old barn (renovated) where our office and my studio is located. You'd think the owls obssessively re-arrange the furniture in their nests every single night, the scratchings and thumpings are so loud!
When they're quiet, we miss them, and when we're sitting outside on a balmy summer evening, it's the huge wing-span of owls that we look out for while we watch the stars.
I think they've invaded our hearts!!!
He's rather special to me as he was inspired by the incredibly noisy barn owls which inhabit the eaves of our 400 year old barn (renovated) where our office and my studio is located. You'd think the owls obssessively re-arrange the furniture in their nests every single night, the scratchings and thumpings are so loud!
When they're quiet, we miss them, and when we're sitting outside on a balmy summer evening, it's the huge wing-span of owls that we look out for while we watch the stars.
I think they've invaded our hearts!!!
Thursday, August 25, 2016
"Wild Profusion"
How on earth can two months have passed without me finding a moment to write a Paintings On Impulse blog!! I did spend a month of it in the UK doing some studies and teaching myself a new craft ... and since I've been back I have done some painting ... but even so, time seriously needs a bit of anchoring.
I have a lot of photographing of paintings and crafts to do, but in the meantime, here's a fairly new painting which grew on me slowly. It's called "Wild Profusion" and is oil on canvas with the background and vase painted using mainly brush, and the flowers using palette knife. She's for sale on my WildSummers.com website.
I have a lot of photographing of paintings and crafts to do, but in the meantime, here's a fairly new painting which grew on me slowly. It's called "Wild Profusion" and is oil on canvas with the background and vase painted using mainly brush, and the flowers using palette knife. She's for sale on my WildSummers.com website.
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
Sessions of Inks and Acrylics
I'm off, tomorrow, to spend a couple of weeks in the UK and have packed only inks and acrylics to work with while I'm away .... oh, and about a ton of wool because suddenly I'm hooked on arm knitting!! Watch this space for scarves LOL
Most of my painting time will be spent on little paintings like these ink ones
Most of my painting time will be spent on little paintings like these ink ones
These little paintings are up for sale now ... just click on the images or on their titles.
See you in a few ink paintings and cowl scarves time!
Monday, June 20, 2016
Flowering Up
Myself and my studio need a jolly good shaking up!
Look how barren it's looking at the moment ...
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Finding my creative mojo is largely about finding subjects to paint which make my heart sing. And what makes my heart sing are flowers ... they're colourful (major important), they're beautiful, they generally smell good (or make me sneeze!), and they're fun to arrange into a still life - simply bunched together in their pots, or in an attractive vessel which I have found somewhere / sometime in my life and knew it had to be mine. That sounds like a good dollop of heart and soul. Just the right ingredients for a painting session.
However. I find cut flowers here in France to be rather too expensive for my pocket. So. What to do?
I was let out alone, unsupervised, when the moon was just two days off being full, whilst doing funny things with Sagittarius in the heavens (the moon, that is, not me). Off I went with freedom whispering through my hair, to the post office (to post off a painting, yay!) and to visit the Saturday morning market which you have to walk through to get to the post office.
I happened, just by chance you see, to walk past a lovely fella who not only spoke good English having spent some years in Dublin, but who was selling plants and plantlets for only between €1 and €3 each. I lie. I didn't walk past. But ping! A light bulb lit up above my head. And two and two finally made four.
My studio has a very large window which is absolutely ideal for an indoor flower garden. And I've always been one for spending money on things which are not fleeting but which give returns time after time. I could justify forever .... so to cut a lot of justification short - nip it in the bud, to flog a good pun - I arrived home with flower heads popping out of at least three bags and the bees at home very pleased to see me indeed.
Here are my purchases, my new studio members, unpacked and being sorted for planting into their forever pots .
Watch this space for new paintings now!
Well, I have a couple of commissions to complete first.
Then .... watch this space for new paintings!
Look how barren it's looking at the moment ...
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"Now and Zen" has been moved to a new still life set-up I'm creating, but he's presiding over lifeless territory and looks sad indeed that I haven't yet painted him or brought some fizzing and popping into my studio this year.
Finding my creative mojo is largely about finding subjects to paint which make my heart sing. And what makes my heart sing are flowers ... they're colourful (major important), they're beautiful, they generally smell good (or make me sneeze!), and they're fun to arrange into a still life - simply bunched together in their pots, or in an attractive vessel which I have found somewhere / sometime in my life and knew it had to be mine. That sounds like a good dollop of heart and soul. Just the right ingredients for a painting session.
However. I find cut flowers here in France to be rather too expensive for my pocket. So. What to do?
I was let out alone, unsupervised, when the moon was just two days off being full, whilst doing funny things with Sagittarius in the heavens (the moon, that is, not me). Off I went with freedom whispering through my hair, to the post office (to post off a painting, yay!) and to visit the Saturday morning market which you have to walk through to get to the post office.
I happened, just by chance you see, to walk past a lovely fella who not only spoke good English having spent some years in Dublin, but who was selling plants and plantlets for only between €1 and €3 each. I lie. I didn't walk past. But ping! A light bulb lit up above my head. And two and two finally made four.
My studio has a very large window which is absolutely ideal for an indoor flower garden. And I've always been one for spending money on things which are not fleeting but which give returns time after time. I could justify forever .... so to cut a lot of justification short - nip it in the bud, to flog a good pun - I arrived home with flower heads popping out of at least three bags and the bees at home very pleased to see me indeed.
Here are my purchases, my new studio members, unpacked and being sorted for planting into their forever pots .
I spent a full day playing at planting. My faithful studio pal, Bridie, spent happy hours drinking up all the fresh water from my watering can every time I filled it, pouncing on all the new insects I brought home and unwittingly set free in the studio, and sniffing each new plant arrival out as it was placed on the shelf. She tried to insist that playing ball was an integral part of the proceedings as well, by dropping it into the bag of soil as I was digging it out and filling pots, but I'm the boss and she had to wait for another time.
Here's our day and progress in images:
The hanging Petunias went up first ... and because both the
medieval lamp and ancient dark wood beams look so good
here's another shot ...
Each plant was thoroughly soaked in water in
my large green tub which is usually upside down
under a white sheet as a still life support!
As so often happens, stems snap off in the handling.
Whenever this happened I trimmed it suitably and
popped it in a jug or bottle to see if it will grow roots -
see jug next to African Hornbill sculpture.
And don't you love my miniature orange tree at the top back?
That was a naughty one, purchased from a florist
opposite the post office, for more money than
I ought to have spent!
Done! All in place and ready for inspection by Bridie
I'm not quite sure if that look is saying "Well done Mum!"
or "What the hell? Are you going to remember to water
these and can I help test the water?"
These little purple beauties just looked so stunning
next to "Symphony" an unfinished sculpture which I
created with my special Australian artist pal Heather.
Got to finish it one day ... or maybe not ... sometimes
things are more beautiful in the incompleteness!
As in all spring cleaning exercises where the dust gets swept
under the carpet so too did all the art equipment end up on the
back table ...looking rather good in all its glory.
under the carpet so too did all the art equipment end up on the
back table ...looking rather good in all its glory.
Watch this space for new paintings now!
Well, I have a couple of commissions to complete first.
Then .... watch this space for new paintings!
Friday, June 10, 2016
Prices and Commissions
I'm happy to report that in the last couple of years I've received requests for a number of paintings on commission. Talking money is the hardest and yukkiest part of it! So in that regard, I have set it all down on a page on my formal website at www.WildSummers.com including a bit on what an artist generally has to take into account when producing a painting.
You can find the Prices and Commissions page HERE.
This is the latest image I am working on repeating .....
You can find the Prices and Commissions page HERE.
This is the latest image I am working on repeating .....
"Summer Storm"
..... and lamenting "Why, oh why, is it so hard to reproduce a painting!!"
Collage of Floral Paintings
Still looking for my creative mojo which I seem to have misplaced recently. I've been making collages and videos of various paintings from years gone by. Here's one of some floral paintings.
Off to search for that mojo again now ...... I know I'll find it soon!
Off to search for that mojo again now ...... I know I'll find it soon!
Collage of floral paintings
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Collage of Watercolour Paintings
Pimp My Art Websites has been the name of the game recently.
For looking-after-old-Mum reasons, I've lost my creative mojo temporarily (going to get it back pretty soon though!!) so have been catching up on hours and days of marketing, which comes with being an artist these days.
Part of that has been discovering how to make collages of my work (below) and using a programme called TweetEye.com to promote individual paintings as well as my WildSummers.com website. Initially there's quite a lot of work in setting TweetEye up, but already I've noticed a lot more activity on my Twitter accounts.
See you on Twitter ... look for me here ... @wild_summers
A collage of some watercolour paintings by moi :
For looking-after-old-Mum reasons, I've lost my creative mojo temporarily (going to get it back pretty soon though!!) so have been catching up on hours and days of marketing, which comes with being an artist these days.
Part of that has been discovering how to make collages of my work (below) and using a programme called TweetEye.com to promote individual paintings as well as my WildSummers.com website. Initially there's quite a lot of work in setting TweetEye up, but already I've noticed a lot more activity on my Twitter accounts.
See you on Twitter ... look for me here ... @wild_summers
A collage of some watercolour paintings by moi :
Friday, May 27, 2016
"Spirited" by Lynda Cookson
Paintings by Lynda Cookson: "Spirited" by Lynda Cookson: "Spirited" by Lynda Cookson Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas 40 cm x 120 cm x 2.5 cm (approximately) 16" x 47" x ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016
"Blue Teapot Arrangement" by Lynda Cookson
eBay have re-introduced loads more Auction listings rather than Buy Now listings ... yay! Much more fun! And so much easier to work with in combining postage for clients for buy more than one painting at a time.
Tea to celebrate ... so here's "Blue Teapot Arrangement" - with flowers instead of tea!
Just click the image or its title to go through to the sales page.
Tea to celebrate ... so here's "Blue Teapot Arrangement" - with flowers instead of tea!
Just click the image or its title to go through to the sales page.
Friday, May 20, 2016
"The Core of My Soul"
I absolutely love abstract work ... but it's not that often that I post it.
My love of flowers usually takes over! So, here for a change, is an
abstract oil, with a touch of gold acrylic, on board called "The Core of
My Soul". I wanted it to be complex yet simple when you reach the
centre.
For sale HERE or click the image or its title.
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