This is the beautiful fish painting I painted in November for my mother’s Christmas gift.

I hid it in my wardrobe because she’s here so often, and then had to ask to borrow it this week because I didn’t have a photo!

I’m so proud of it 

It’s sooo much better than my first fish, and it’s lovely to look and see how my painting has improved in such a short time.

Mum & Wonderhubby almost came to blows over whose house my first fish painting will live at, so I decided to paint one just for her.

She loves blue, so of course that had to be the main colour.

I used a page from an old phone book, pretty spotted scrapbooking paper, lacy binding, acrylic paints and charcoal pencil.

Then the green tail grew from the green spots on the body.

And she loves it

#1 ~ New Year Bird on etsy ~ $3

#2 ~ Bird in Boots ~ on etsy $3

#3 ~ Business Bird ~ on etsy $3

Tags: create art daily

This being the 1st of Jan, I want to share with you my one and only resolution for 2012.

Each day, I am going to create one drawing, painting or ATC.

It doesn’t matter what I create, so long as I complete something new and artsy each day.

I’m looking forward to seeing what changes and improvements happen to my art over the next year…

I’ll update here at least a couple of times a week with my progress, and you can check out my Flickr photostream, too.

Wren is planning to finish one piece each week.

Wonderhubby plans to complete his diploma in logistics.

Mr Bump has all sorts of plans.

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Tags: create art daily

I painted this here little ACEO of a cat & bird a few months ago with my watercolours & sold it on ebay.

Since then, it’s kept popping into my head at odd moments and over the weekend I realised that it would make a really cute painting.

I started sketching and came up with a number of designs for different shaped canvases, and this one is going to be a present for Wren at Christmas.

She loves blue, she loves cats, and she’s into zentangle…