I thought putting my latest creation up here might encourage me to paint more, sorry about the photo it is a little wonky, but the painting is hanging up in the front door area and I couldn't get a better angle. At the moment I am just painting to decorate our house which is very bland with hardly any pictures on the wall. Also painting pictures for family presents, poor people, when you give someone a painted picture they feel obliged to hang it up even if they don't like it. But we have a rule for grown up Christmas presents, that we only give presents that we made. It makes you think and be a little creative and so much fun.
How things have changed "In my day...."
I remember on long road trips my parents would give us the "back in my day" speech and tell us how it was when they were young. They described that there was no TV and when they did get TV it was only in black and white for a long time. "Wow no TV" we used to say but how did you survive, what did you fill your days with. This got me thinking, what will I tell my children in my "back in my day" talk, what has changed over the years since I was young. I realised that it is going to be a dam big talk over multiple road trips, as so much has changed. They are going to think we are sooooo old when I tell them that when I was little not only were there no cell phones our phones didn't have buttons on them and when it rang we didn't just pick it up, we had to wait to see if it was our ring, as we were on a party line. If we called a business, there would be no automated voice telling us what to press or say, we actually got a real person on the line a...
That's gorgeous!
ReplyDeletewow!!!I wish I was that talented!!!
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Just found your blog while looking for some Kiwi blogs.... you are very talented. Do you sell your paintings at all?
ReplyDeleteThank you, i have done in the past but have trouble actually getting them painted at the moment. the one above is in our house but would always be on sale for the right amount lol.
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