My Creative Space- Water Colour Painting

I have been incredibly lax this year with blogging and it is not because I haven’t been doing anything creative, I guess I just lost my blogging groove. I also have the admit I was getting highly frustrated with my compact camera and not being able to illustrate this blog as I would have liked. So I am back now armed and dangerous with the new Canon 600D digital SLR. It was an absolute indulgence but I have been wanting an SLR for ages. I spent many happy and creative years with my Nikon film SLR and have deeply missed the creative potential of SLR photography. 

So to kick my ‘new and improved’ blog off, I wanted to share my creative space with you this week. This week I have delved into the art of water colour painting. Over the weekend I met up with a bunch of wonderfully creative and inspiring women to paint and do other ‘artsy’ things. I cut out some pictures of plants from some magazines and settled on a gorgeous succulent with wonderful greens, pinks and reds to paint. 

        

It was a wonderful day and it inspired me to go to my local library and borrow some books that have some step-by-step beginners exercises, which should be great.

Today I was also fortunate enough to spend the day with a friend who is teaching me how to do mosaics. She is a very talented artist and I really love the mosaics she has done so far. Photos to come on this project.

I hope you have all had a wonderfully creative week.