Some small watercolour studies of the river from the last post. There are surprising amounts of violet in the waters shadows. Whilst the tr...

I've been getting cabin fever, with the sun shining and birds calling I needed to get outside. I rushed through my chores, grabbed a ca...

Distant Haze acrylic on board 20x20cm ©2011 Lisa Le Quelenec

  This is another experiment using monoprints, on the left I'd added watercolour which resisted the ink of the monoprint. There wasn...

Remember the monoprints from the beginning of the month? Well following a suggestion from Vivien   (thank you :o) )I've been working bac...

Spring on the River acrylic on canvas 25x25cm ©Lisa Le Quelenec I'm having a few problems getting online at the moment as my laptop...

This painting is turning out to be a bigger challenge than I anticipated. How to describe the colour of the water? It's blue with the ...

I've squeezed a bit of time in to paint today before I go to Christchurch to help hang the Hayloft exhibition. This is the beginning of ...

  Reeds and Reflections acrylic on board 34x37cm ©2011 Lisa Le Quelenec  After resting my eyes from this painting for a few days ...

 After the monoprinting I'd done my thoughts were full of reflections and ripples and I started to do some drawings. They were A4ish in ...

  I needed to 'get away' from looking at the painting I've been working on so I've had a day of monoprin...

I added in some more reeds and messed up! Can you see that claw-like shape on the top left side? Yuk! As soon as I'd done it I wanted to...

I've been working on the main reeds today, trying to keep in mind that it isn't about the details in them but about the light. When ...

These are the plans for the painting that I started working on today. The more developed sketch on the left is a mixture of watercolour, wat...

 Past the Reeds acrylic on paper 12x12cm ©2011 Lisa Le Quelenec 

 I've been doing a lot of thinking about the workshop... I have lots of questions that I'm trying to answer. They include;       Ho...

A tiny sketch from my walk this morning in my shiny new tiny (9x14cm) watercolour sketchbook. Initially I was just going to sketch the refle...

Reeds and reflections from my sketchbook in both watercolour (top) and acrylic (below). The acrylic is quite richly textured which was diffi...

Another of my watersoluble mono prints that I've worked into, it's a bit curly here as I took the picture whilst it was drying. Afte...

On the right is the original mono print with a colour photocopy on the left that I've worked on top of with coloured pencil. I thoug...