What a Difference a Day Makes!

Full sun & blue sky yesterday - after days upon days of heavy unrelenting cloud & drizzle, we get a glorious November sunny day! (ok today was back to the drizzle - but least us folk in Devon have seen the beauty of blue sky & bright sunshine!)



Blue skies galore!

See my shadow?

Ok we have a REALLY serious rat problem now - they're all over the garden & all over & under the bird feeders - they're such rascals too & are getting away with blue murder!

Though Mummy blackbird didn't seem too fussed about it!

Sparrow - unfortunately in shadow - but love how his underside lit up in the sun!

Glowing feet & look at those claws! Was he a cat in his previous life? lol

Sparrow camera shy - but lovely against the vivid blue sky

Buzzard - so hard to photograph - he/she was far away so not a very clear shot! :(

Blue tit enjoying the last rays of the golden sunshine of the day

Fieldfare from a great distance, they're very timid birds, so quite hard to get close to

Golden plovers demonstrating why they've been given that name! Catching the sunlight

Lovely golden sunshine which ran shadows across the land towards a glowing yellow field:

Some colour in the hedgerows - rose hips

Gorse - remember, when the gorse is in season, so is kissing!

Dock leaves in the evening sunshine & oak leaves lit up too

On my walk in the field where I saw a big flock of fieldfares & redwings, plus golden plovers

The last leaves on the oak trees in the woods - amazing how they've disappeared so fast!

Beginnings of yesterdays sunset

Same sunset - taken in dusk!

End to a perfect day really! :) x

The Sky was on Fire!

Sunset from last night:



















Lovely blue skied day today but very very cold - I can't enjoy is it as I need to get back to work in the studio - oh oh oh woe is me . . . :( x

Pressure, pressure, under so much pressure

I have 2 exhibition deadlines looming!

One is looming closer then the other - as in this coming Saturday. It's some Open North Devon Art event where 10 artists influenced by North Devon are chosen out of a panel of art type people for an exhibition at the Barnstable museum & they're looking for new artists, right up my street or down my lane, BUT oh it's so hard - I need 4 cracking paintings - just isn't happening!

The second is the New Work New Year show at Broomhill - where my North Devon Arts experience all started & really hasn't got me very far, but I'll keep plodding along & that's slightly better, the deadline for that is 6th December - I need 8 paintings for both shows combined - God 8, you know I hadn't counted them, god, that's worse - 8 cracking paintings!

So today I discovered I actually have no room, I have the total of around 15 canvases on the go - some I start then put away & come back to, others I acrylic over first & then wait until they've dried, others I give a thin layer of oil & let that dry over night so I can apply a second. Yes, all organised, all thought out. Hmmm - ME ORGANISED? You have the wrong person surely!!!!

I have actually run out of room! I lean finished paintings against everything - one I leaned against the wall & the second one I started off then I splattered paint over the first finished one *rolls eyes* I had nowhere to stand my jar of white spirit so I placed it on top of the third step of my small ladder, yep, I spilled it, it went up the wall & over a painting & to top it up I tripped over my floor covering & one of my paintings now as a print of my hand right in the middle! I get totally covered in paint usually, it's over my face, it's in my hair, over my hands & I wipe off the residue of oil paint on my brush on my trousered thigh (yep painting clothes) & when I come to take them off after a day of studio I find the paint has gone right through onto my legs & I look like I have a huge bruises - which I do ironically anyway as I'm so clumsy!

So I'm annoyed, frustrated, agitated, resemble a paint pot, stressed, under pressure, stiff, achy & now ranting on my blog!!!

Och well as Tucker would say, least there was a stunning red sunset tonight - red sky at night, shepherds delight???? PLEASE!!!!!! As the weather has been appalling!!!!

Emy x

Autumn Sunsets

one cold sunset during the week - there was no colour - just gold & bleakness!

This was on the same night I went deer stalking! The sky turned pink!

This was Friday nights sunset - rather sublime & again everything glowed pink

Incredibly windy today & a bit of sun here & there between the hail storms, so there might be a chance of a sunset tonight who knows - I'm just off out to take a few more photos of Ratty & family! x