Yvonne's Sketchbook

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 20

Day 20 already! Where is this month disappearing to!

I may not have chance to post for a few days now as I'm heading off to another island for a long weekend, I don't think i'll have much in the way of internet but I'll be taking my art supplies with me so, each day, once my work is done i'll be settling down to a little painting. The weather forecast does not look good and there is every likelihood that either the ferry i'm booked on tomorrow to go will be cancelled or the ferry that i'm booked on to come back on Monday will be cancelled!

Exercise 6, variant 1 from the Rolina van Vliet book "Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects and Techniques." A4 size mixed media paper. Acrylic paint.

Journey Book

I'm having a joint exhibition with a friend next May, our theme is "Journey" so I'm writing up my diary from when I walked the Camino de Santiago in 2013. Each of the 44 pages represents one day of the 500 mile walk and includes a variety of writing, photographs, sketches that I did at the time, things I collected along "the way." Central to each day is my "colours of the Camino" gelli print, done with my 8 inch circular.

My "Journey Book" will be available at the exhibition for people to look through. I will also be incorporating "gelli elements" into the art for the exhibition too. It's no good, there's no hope, I've been a hopeless gelli addict for 12 months now.