Tag: Imagination
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Fakebeard: The Elf that didn’t Fit

Yes, I know it’s July, and we’re just on the other side of quite possibly the hottest heatwave since the dawn of time. And YES, I’m aware that we are entering into a hosepipe ban here in the North West of England even though we’ve had bucket loads of rain over the last couple of…
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Cantalina Whyte

“Paint me!”, she said. “Paint ME!”, she demanded. “PAINT ME NOW!!!”, I thought this chick’s intense. Actually, I didn’t, as I never use the word ‘chick’, but the meaning of my thoughts were the same. “DO IT!” She wasn’t letting me off the hook. Who are you? I asked. “Cantalina Whyte”, she said, as if…
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The View

I’ve just done a pile of washing and mopped the Bathroom floor, and decided I wanted to rest a little by sploshing some watercolour around… handy, considering it’s #WorldWatercolorMonth! For this painting, my eleventh of eleven, if memory serves me right, is of a simple view out to sea. I found a lighthouse on th’internet…
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Somewhere between Make Believe and Heaven: The Rainbow Maker

Somewhere up above the clouds Exists and old and crooked house And within the house there lives a man Who creates rainbows when he can He sprinkles magic upon the clouds From the window in his crooked house And when the rain begins to fall From the magic a rainbow forms A bit of magic…
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Bottoms Up!

Partly inspired by a recent post by Cobs, and partly inspired by nature, I have digitally painted a whimsical dormouse scurrying into a hole in a tree. I say ‘painted’, but I merely spread a few dashes of colour here and there to create a tree effect. And a hole effect. And a dormouse effect.…