Revisiting some older work - ebb & flow

 

Ebb & Flow   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

I have been looking back at some older work (around 2018 although it feels like much longer ago). Inspired by the pebbles and small rivulets of water that amble down to the sea. I'm gathering ideas, looking at references old and new. I need a project to get me through February a month that I always find difficult for it's cold snaps and dreary greyness. With the mist and darkness it feels like it has come early today.

Ebb & Flow II   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

Ebb & Flow I&II are both available at RedBubble framed and unframed as reproduction prints in various options.

Time & Tide   a mix media and collage concertina book   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

If you have been reading here a while (I thank you) you might remember this little concertina book that I made. I stumbled across it a few weeks ago whilst looking for something else in the plan chest. I like the simplicity of this series of work and want to revisit the themes in some way. I think I would like a warmer palette this time.....

Time & Tide   a mix media and collage concertina book   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

 

Time & Tide   a mix media and collage concertina book   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Time & Tide   a mix media and collage concertina book   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Time & Tide   a mix media and collage concertina book   ©2018LisaLeQuelenec

Love is in the air......A medley of mussels

 

Mussels, mussels everywhere....cards, stationery, prints and more all available at RedBubble.

A medley of mussels - available at RedBubble ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

The inspiration for all the variations. This mini painting is available in my  Folksy store.

Mussel study   acrylic on linen board 10x10cm   ©2023LisaLeQuelenec

Inspiration in unusual places - part II

Coastal Stripe   digital design   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec available at Spoonflower

From this....

Digital manipulation of a scan from the collage  ©2024LisaLe Quelenec

...a little more manipulation digitally to this....

Coastal Stripes   digital design   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

....and before I knew it.....

Coastal Stripe   digital design   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec available at Spoonflower

Each design is available on a variety of fabrics, wall paper and home furnishings in my  Spoonflower store and co-ordinates with all the designs in my Coastal Collections.

These designs are also available in my  RedBubble  store on a variety of different home accessories, soft furnishing, stationery and clothing.

Inspiration can strike at any time and in the most unusual places.

Inspiration from unusual places...

Rag rug watercolour thumbnail sketch  ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

 

Rag rug ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

It started on a sunny day, I noticed the denim rag rug and the way the light had faded areas - the patterns made by light and shade, the tones, the colours and textures... a little noticing.

Sketchbook studies - rag rug    watercolour   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

I grabbed my sketchbook and sketched out some thumbnails.....which led to some collages.....

Collage WIP    ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

Rag rug studies   collage with shells   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

That were strangely addictive to make.....  to be continued......

Broken But Still Beautiful I - mixed media drawing

 

Broken But Still Beautiful I   mixed media drawing 30x21cm   ©2024LisaLeQuelenec

The end of 2023 passed - I'm not sure where or how - and here we are already the 11th! Armed with new plans for work and hopefully more self discipline blog-wise than I have shown last year I will be here more regularly.

To begin the year a resolution to myself to make more time for drawing. Drawing is another area that I have neglected recently and should be one of the first signs to myself that things are going askew. Life is much better with drawing in it. The act of slowing down and looking is undervalued I think. I am a little rusty but have made a start.

I plan to make one drawing each month this year on the theme of 'Broken But Still Beautiful'. (There may be more than 12 but I want at least 12 by the end of the year.) To start off the project this beautiful whelk shell that I picked up in Norfolk last summer. I have a lovely collection of broken whelks and the project may well be a series from these resources. I obsess over the beautiful internal twisting wave-like spiral of the columella. Even the sound of the word 'columella' I find beautiful. When I look at broken whelks I see a Barbara Hepworth or Henry Moore sculpture - a reclining figure - large scale and monumental. I have no end in mind for these drawings except to enjoy the process and get lost in the shapes, contours and textures. Lets see how I get on....