Journal
A personal look behind the scenes, written mostly by Laura.

Bluebells and a Fairy Tale
Bluebells are on my mind, in art, books and the garden.

One Cat, Three Images
There’s something captivating about a cat looking you straight in the eye and Bengal cats are stunning.

New Cards, Bumblebees and Spring
Spring is coming and here are a five new greetings cards to celebrate her arrival.

Scottish Landscape Sketches, Birdwatching and Nature Treasures.
These little sketches and drawings are done for my own pleasure, more like journal entries than preparatory sketches for finished work.

Cat drawings, Greetings Cards and a Newly Designed Website.
Over the winter I’ve produced a varied range of greetings cards.
You can find landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes, castles, mills, monuments, hares, spiders dancing(!), hearts, angels, flowers, trees, abstract art, patterns galore in a variety of styles and media and even psychedelic art!

“Do you ever wake up and feel that you don’t want to do any art work?”
My friend H asked this while we were out walking. At the time my answer was “No, not really” but I was reminded this week that there is.

Studies of liminal states.
The air is still and mist has descended in the valley where I live in West Yorkshire, UK so I thought I’d share a couple of recent studies which seem to fit this change in the weather.

Rebelle 7 Pro and Chrome Canvas.
This past week I’ve been trying different digital art software and devices and researching possible solutions to my concerns about it… and making not-very-nice-to-look-at art during my experiments.

The Challenges of Making Digital Art.
It’s been week two of my adventures in making art digitally and the tech side of it is a challenge.
Here are four finished pieces. I’ve also been discovering that each painting has its own story so I’ve included it after the title.