"Chilly Spring Walk" by Lynda Cookson

It's just the right time of year for a "Chilly Spring Walk" in your local nature trail (if you're in the northern hemisphere like we are!). The days are really beautiful with ever-changing days of April showers, sunshine and nippy breezes, and light white clouds in the blue sky. All the little flowers are heralding the onset of Spring and I am having loads of fun picking little wild posies to dot around the house. Lawn Daisies are my favourites and I love how they pop up within hours of the lawn being mown.

My "Chilly Spring Walk" painting, oil on paper, is available as the ORIGINAL HERE

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My "Chilly Spring Walk" painting, oil on paper, is available as the ORIGINAL HERE

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the image for prints and giclees is available as an INSTANT DOWNLOAD HERE

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"It's Raining Outside" by Lynda Cookson

"It's Raining Outside" is an instant download image from an original oil painting on board by Lynda Cookson.

The original painting is for sale as well and can be found HERE : "It's Raining Outside"

Sitting in a hotel conservatory one rainy day in Co Galway (Connemara) Ireland, with the rain spattering loudly on the glass of the conservatory, the only happy subject to be painted was a stunning potted plant of white geraniums. This is it. It captures both the beauty of the flowers and the wet feeling of the rainy day.

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"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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"Blue Teapot" by Lynda Cookson

Some paintings, even after being sold many years back, live with you - and inspire you - forever in so many ways. This is one of them for me :-) and I have the actual teapot to this day too!

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"Ruin Above the Mist" by Lynda Cookson

"Ruin Above the Mist" was inspired by the wide open spaces, the big skies, where ancient ruins watch out over the lands in Ireland.

It's damp and cool where the blues, greens and grey rule. Crispness dominates in both temperature and view clarity. Ireland breaks all the gauges when it comes to measuring beauty ... too much to measure!

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"Bougainvillea Sky" by Lynda Cookson

"Bougainvillea Sky"

A lovely sunny day in Portugal a few years ago ... and that sky really was that blue when I took this photograph! I grew up with a huge ... really old and really big! ... Bougainvillea of this exact shade in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, so I was tickled to be able to capture my memory so stunningly against the orange deck cover and such an incredibly blue sky. Most definitely one of my favourite photographs.

This image is available as an instant download (just click an image to take you through to the download site).

"Bougainvillea Sky" by Lynda Cookson

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The story of "Lone Tree" by Lynda Cookson

A funny thing happened with this little watercolour called "Lone Tree".

I'm using up old pieces of watercolour paper which belonged to my Mum way back when, and I mean really way back when. She probably bought the paper close to 25 years ago. I've been trying out different brush stroke techniques and this piece of paper took the paint in different ways. I liked it so I left it. There's a block to the left of centre in the blue sky where the paint took smoothly. For the rest of it, "it blotched". The effect was to make a simple brush stroke more interesting ... with a hint of weather.

I used a wet on dry technique and the paper seemed to be very absorbent either side of the oblong shape where the paper allowed the paint to be brushed on smoothly.

"Lone Tree" by Lynda Cookson

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"Fields of Gold" by Lynda Cookson

A day of admin work and writing today. I need colour and paint and images!!! Now!!! LOL

This is a new style. The first in what I hope to be a little collection. But so far there is a lot I need to tend to, to improve what I have in mind for them.

Too much blue around the edges for a start ..... hmmmmm ..... another learning curve!

"Fields of Gold" by Lynda Cookson

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"Red Sail" by Lynda Cookson

Last day of the 30 day challenge. Thank you so much everyone out there for putting up with me on a daily basis this past month ... your lovely comments and patience have been very appreciated. I know that if I hadn't put it out there for public viewing every day, I wouldn't have learned nearly as much as I did.

Halfway through I felt quite drained with it but got past that and may even do it again on an annual basis. Who knows :-)

Painting no. 30 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge
"Red Sail"
Acrylic on Paper
5.5" x 11" (17 cm x 28 cm)

"Red Sail" by Lynda Cookson

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"Pals for Tea" by Lynda Cookson

I often keep surfaces (paper, board or canvas) from failed paintings and clean my palette knife on them ... or fill them with palette knife strokes of left-over paint. They make interesting backgrounds and props for simple, warm-up paintings. Here's one of them:

Painting no. 21 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge
"Pals for Tea"
Oil on Board
4.5" x 6" (12 cm x 16 cm)

"Pals for Tea" by Lynda Cookson

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"Rollers"

Painting no. 15 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

"Rollers"
Oil on Paper
11" x 7" (28 cm x 18 cm)

"Rollers"

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"Fat Blue Vase"

Painting no. 13 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

"Fat Blue Vase"
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16" (31 cm x 41 cm)

"Fat Blue Vase"

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"Birthday Bouquet"

Painting no. 11 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge

"Birthday Bouquet"
Oil on Paper
5" x 7.5" (13 cm x 19 cm)

"Birthday Bouquet"

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"Red Breasted Blue Headed Bird"

No 5 om the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge is a mini gallery wrap canvas covered in silver leaf and painted so that the silver leaf gives a border to the painting.

"Red Breasted Blue Headed Bird"

Oil on Silver Leaf and Gallery Wrap Canvas

4" x 4" (10 cm x 10 cm)

"Red Breasted Blue Headed Bird"

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"Orange Tea Pot and Flowers"

It's raining today so I chose the brightest painting I could find 😄

Please click the image or the it's title if you like it enough to see it's incredibly reasonable price!!

"Orange Tea Pot and Flowers" 

Detail of "Orange Tea Pot and Flowers" 

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"A Spiritual Journey" by Lynda Cookson

The wind is howling today, spattering rain drops on windows and thoroughly wetting everything I have outside which I'm trying to keep dry! We've recently moved house and haven't been able to put everything in its allotted space yet. So I thought a little bit of peace and calm was required. Hence "A Spiritual Journey" with its calm green, dusky pink and cloudy blue.

"A Spiritual Journey" by Lynda Cookson

Detail of "A Spiritual Journey" by Lynda Cookson

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"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!

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"Breaking Through" by Lynda Cookson

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