10.7.14

Last painting (cloud study) from my journal #284


Daily painting #284. Watercolor sketch from personal journal NFS

This will be the last little painting sketch I share from my own personal journal. Unfortunately with the strict customs control, traveling with wet oil paintings (besides being inconvenient) would just be a nightmare and so I have had no choice but to continue my little daily ritual by sharing with you snippets from my personal daily journal.....something I always travel with but rarely share! This was a quick cloud study early this morning. It was awful for many reasons .....now that it's home time, I am keen to get back to my studio and a little daily routine and I am ITCHING to get back to my oils...they are by far my favorite medium! Our bags were packed, except for last minute toiletries and of course my journal and watercolors. We planned to head off to the airport early so that we could see Ross before he left on his flight to South Africa. He was flying with his team mates and coaches an hour ahead of us. So now I am sitting at Heathrow Airport trying to sit out a looong wait before we can board. Tomorrow's painting will have to go live this evening as tomorrow morning I will still be in the air over Southern Africa....with a second connecting flight to Durban still to come! But we are homeward bound and as fabulous as our holiday has been....there really is no place like home!

Oh dear!!!! The post will have to go live once I am home and connected again....the Heathrow free wi-fi is sloooooowww and doesn't seem to want to load my post! Not surprising if I look around me there must be a million odd people all sitting at the airport connected! The post seems to take ages to load and then the connection cuts off and needs to be rebooted. My patience is now thin and it's almost time to go to our boarding gate ....so this one will have to go out tomorrow afternoon! How did we survive before wireless and internet.....we really do live in a crazy, busy, connected world! 

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9.7.14

Grey skies #283


Daily painting #283 watercolor and ink pen in personal journal NFS

It's time to pack our bags and get ready to head on home...already! England you have been amazing...it was SO good to be back! We have been blessed with beautiful days, boys have been able to finish off cricket games at nearly 8pm in glorious sunshine! But grey clouds are looming over the rooftops ....just in time for us to head on home! Thank you London....I love this city!



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8.7.14

A little apple #282


Daily painting #282 pen, ink and watercolor in personal journal NFS

We played a cricket game at a lovely school called St Johns Beaumont. When we asked a parent for directions to the cricket field we were told...."find a parking, walk through the woods and at the foot of the hill you will find a cricket field"! Need I say more....the school grounds were breathtakingly beautiful! One of the parents on a walk around the school's stunning grounds found this little apple which must have fallen from a tree prematurely. Knowing I would be on the search for something to paint for my daily painting, she gave it to me. I carried it home in my hat and made a quick little painting sketch in my journal....

Sorry today's post is going out so late....the Wi-fi connection in the house we are staying in seems to crash occasionally when too many people are using it....not being my home I wasn't sure how to reset it so have had to wait until this evening for everything to be rebooted! No internet connection feels like my arm has been cut off......terrible! Oh well...better late than never!

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7.7.14

Moulsford #281


Daily painting #281 watercolor and pen sketch in personal journal NFS 

I am afraid for now you are going to have to put up with snippets of little painting sketches from my personal journal...
I have only completed 3 little daily paintings in oils while here (and loads of little watercolor paintings in my journal) and none of them are dry yet!!!! And I leave for home on Wed....the oil paint seems to take much longer to dry here so no more oil painting until I get home....so some little daily entries from my journal....

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6.7.14

Evening sky from Reigate cricket club #280


Daily painting #280  watercolor in sketchbook NFS

After spending an awesome day in London and seeing the fabulous Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, we headed back to Reigate to join some of my husbands friends at the Reigate Priory Cricket Club. The evening sky at 9 pm was spectacular! Another little share from my personal sketchbook journal....

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5.7.14

Old Winsor #279


Daily painting #279. Pen, ink and watercolor sketch in journal NFS

Not much time to paint today although our boys played at the most picturesque school, St Johns Beaumont. The buildings looked like something out of a Harry Potter movie and the rolling grounds had horses grazing in them. The most beautiful settings for plein air painting but I am afraid I was watching cricket. So today I am sharing with you a little painting sketch I did in Old Winsor today along the banks of the Thames. This little painting sketch is in my journal....

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4.7.14

Strawberry #278


Daily painting #278. Pen, ink and watercolor

There is an abundance of strawberries in the shops in London at the moment with all the Wimbledon fever! I think we put them to good use this evening....Pimm's and strawberries and a bit of sunshine at 9pm! You can't beat that....


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