Category: Nature
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Wise Old Oswald and Friends

Another post for #WorldWatercolorMonth This time featuring a trio of owls. Wise Old Oswald is on the left, Clever Clara is in the middle, and in the hole in the tree – just peeking out, is Ace. Well, you must always have an ace in the hole, mustn’t you? (Could this be a clue? Or…
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Restless Rhino

The latest in my series of versions of ATCs/ACEOs featuring baby animals. Time is getting on now, and the night is most definitely drawing in. This baby rhino, however, doesn’t want to sleep. He needs sleep. He just doesn’t want it. Too much to learn. So he is lying low, watching as the day comes…
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The Green Man

After posting the Carved Man the other day, and then the Little Green Man, I thought I would have a go at painting my version of the actual Green Man. More of a caricature than the actual Green Man, as things turned out, but it still passed one and a half hours nicely. I did…
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Turbulence and Light

Today’s painting for #WorldWatercolorMonth is a colourful painting of water. And a lighthouse in a storm. I’ve also had a little fun with the lighthouse theme, as just before posting this I wrote the previous Wordle post, based again on a lighthouse. Well, why not? There were some challenges with this painting, which, I’ve decided,…
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Wordle: Lighthouse

Brutally painted cream and white Sure to be seen on any night Reflective walls and lamp so bright To face a storm, but a welcome sight. Waves crash with their attacks and flees Amid constant scorn and destructive needs Churning water flows and bleeds In poetic rhythm masked deadly deeds. Skin saved once more amid…