The fear

Full of cold, full of fears!

I cant do it, its my usual fear when it comes to painting not help by illness. Im just to frightened to make the first brush stroke!

Maybe tomorrow.

Review of 2009

1. tweet, 2. basket of eggs - youngsters series, 3. basket of birds - youngsters series, 4. hunting owl - youngsters series, 5. huntsmens chorus, 6. wagtaills landscape, 7. bird on a wire, 8. bucket of eggs sketch, 9. New baby final, 10. Nesting, 11. Bird in hand, 12. Wren pages, 13. made up bird on text, 14. Drying prints, 15. girl bird kneeling, 16. newspaper sketch, 17. bird bath final, 18. dolls raw, 19. big bird, 20. crouching bird, 21. sketch, 22. Mother & Child 3, 23. Mother & Child 2, 24. painted piggy back, 25. Proud Mums, 26. Bird doll with dress, 27. Proud couple, 28. basket of birds, 29. nightingale head, 30. bride heads, 31. stiched bird brides, 32. bird in hand skectch, 33. drying prints, 34. test bird head, 35. Test bird heads, 36. birds on wire

Inspired by Cathy’s end of year mosaic I have compiled my own, I was feeling the need to reflect on my work ready to move forward into the New Year. Thanks to Cathy for great inspiration and a fantastic link into the wonderful world of Flickr.

Over the last few months I have been more productive than in 10 years, It has been exciting to explore ideas quickly for a change. I am still struggling to except that I work better on mixed media pieces and I need to let go my obsession with painting as an exclusive medium and develop ideas and techniques further.

New year plan

 2010 to be the year of direction.

Daily sketches, Focused on the figure and scenarios.

More sewing, developing ideas and small projects

Collaboration with Claire Pickles on a textiles project……watch this space.

Continue to do what ever takes my fancy!

Maybe try to sell a little more so as to fund my projects (but not get stressed about it!)

It has been a great year for me in many ways, but certainly creatively its been the best for a very long time, more of this please, roll on 2010 xxx

completed new series of paintings

these are the completed paintings I started a few weeks ago, I finished them a while ago but have had to live with them for a while before ive decided that they ok for public consumption.
Im not very happy with how ive painted them, but i love the compositions and idea behind them.
I may redo at some point but for now I need to move on.
The Hammershoi idea is still on my mind  Im going to do a little painting practice this week and work on composition ideas for when im feeling a little more confident about my execution.

Im going to try and do a painting a day of faces this week! just to perfect any style there may be!

xx jenny

new painting

This is Sarah with bird, she is actually my Great Grandma, altered a little xx