A Need to Go Mad...

I've been spending a lot of the time in the studio lately...! Time management, I will admit, has always been a struggle... Right now I am juggling my time between my part time work for Peter Cox Photography Gallery, a few commission works including illustrating a little book of children's poem by friend the American poet Barbara Botch, and preparing for my Solo Exhibition at the Boathouse Gallery in Kinsale, County Cork.

After spending a good few days and hours on these various commissions, I needed to "stretch" my creativity and just "go mad" a little on something which was not meant for anybody in particular...

So with no particular agenda, I squeezed a good amount of some of my favorite colours on a palette and then guessed what.... : I used my fingers.

Detail of the sky...

I had seen several blog posts and videos recently about "intuitive painting" and I just wanted to try it a little... To paint the hills then I used a combination of my fingers and some of my bigger brushes, I wanted to keep a "looser" feeling to the painting.

Of course to paint the flowers I had to rely on my smaller brushes again...!

So there, I think Studio Assistant Clochette was pretty pleased with the results..

I know it's impossible to please everybody, but I am quite please witht the combination of loose background mixed with the little details... What do you think?


Amélie