Illustration Friday - "Grow" Theme

My Submission for Illustration Friday - Grow Theme is My Tuscany Delights painting. All the wonderful things grown in Tuscany.

Autumn Bloom WIP Update

Hi everyone managed to do some work today on my new floral painting. The painting will be entitled "Autumn Bloom".

So I have blocked in color for the background (burnt umber, burnt sienna, napthol light red, indian red, yellow ochre and cad yellow med.) and green stems (light pathlo green and some lemon yellow). Next I will do an outline and then block in some white for the flowers. It is slowly coming together.

Tagged - 7 Things About Me

I have been tagged by my very talented artist friend: Anita Murphy at her wonderful blog: Am-Art

7 facts about me:

1. My favourite color is Blue too
2. I love Italian food and everything Italian!
3. I have lived in 3 different countries
4. I love costume jewellery – especially necklaces
5. I love red wine and cheese
6. My best friend is my husband
7. I love to play poker

I am tagging all my blogger friends if they wish to play! Wishing you a great day.

New floral idea on a long canvas

Hi everyone, I finally found some time to get some work done in my studio on my new painting project. This painting will be for our new home and painted on a long canvas 35 x 120 cm.

I am thinking lots of nice earthy fall colours (red, beige, browns) with some bright light green stems and pretty white ornithogalum ( chincherinchee) flowers

A cropped pic of the flowers.
My proposed colour scheme and my rough sketch with the fall colours I will be using.

My drawing on canvas

Back from Canada!

Hi Everyone, We are finally back home in Copenhagen after a beautiful, busy trip to Canada. I am slowly getting back to my daily routine but unfortunately caught a bad cold coming over. We had a wonderful vacation and the weather was just gorgeous--a real Indian summer with all the trees changing colour. The big event of our trip was my sister’s wedding, which was just amazing and she looked so beautiful and radiant. My new brother-in-law Martin was also dashing! I am so happy for them both!

A few pictures from the wedding

My Sister and I in the bridal suite getting ready. I did her makeup which turned out just beautifully.

My handsome brother Peter before the ceremony in the ChapelI was my sister's maid of honour Mr. and Mrs. Pavelic
Beautiful Mary and Martin
Mary, Lisa, Mom and Dad

Lisa & Andreas - the Master of Ceremonies
I also celebrated my big 40th birthday with my close friends and family, and had my first Thanksgiving back in Canada in 12 years with yummy turkey and all the trimmings.

A few pics from my Birthday Party

Wine - always a good gift for Lisa

I hope you all have been doing well and creating lots of wonderful art work. I managed to do a few sketches over the weekend which I think I will pursue as some paintings. I am off to visit all your blogs! In the meantime, I wish you all a great week!