Friday Catch Up - 21st August 2026

I managed to get some painting done this week, I used watercolour and fine liner

Friday Face Off / Doodlewash Art Challenge

A rough watercolour and pen painting of orangutans

Photo Challenges

Monday Window,  Pull up a Seat

All taken in the beautiful Kotor, Montenegro

My Flower of the Week is a Zulu Prince Cape Daisy seen in a friends garden

Also in the same garden we hung our experiments to dry from a workshop of Suminagashi or Japanese Water Printing. I'll come back to that sometime I hope.

I'll not be posting next week but I hope you all have a fun week.

 

Catch Up Friday - 13th August 2026

An altered photo of a hare ornament on an altered background of a rose.

My entry for Friday Face Off

The original hare ornament is in a relatives pub

I asked AI to make the image into a scary hare

This is the rose image before adding the hare, I don't think I still have the photo of the rose before altering. It was combined with a gelli print.

I used the same rose on this gelli print

The original gelli print

As you can see I have no paintings this week, we've had the grandchildren staying again.

Flower of the Week

My daughter brought me a giant stalk of sunflowers. I cut the branches so they would fit in a vase. Quite a few of them are facing down instead of up at the moment.

Photo Challenges

More from the Adriatic Cruise in June

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull up a Seat

The first 5 images were taken in Split, Croatia

I took this photo from the ship while docked in Kotor, Montenegro

That's it for this week. Hope you have a fun week to come.

 

Friday Catch Up - 7th August 2026

Friday Face Off / Doodlewash Art Challenge

This is the only watercolour I managed to do this week because we had the grandchildren staying and I was doing other stuff. I took a picture of the orangutans from a TV program called Orangutan Jungle School., they look so cute on that but I'm afraid they look awful on my painting.

I added a stencil [digitally] on an older gelli print .

I added my photo of a wasp to this altered gelli print.

This is the original gelli print

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull up a Seat

The photos are from the Adriatic again. The first four in Zadar, Croatia, the last two in Split, Croatia

I wonder how people reached this building above set in the mountain side 

 My Flower of the Week is a poppy growing in my garden [in June]

That's it for today, enjoy the rest of the week.

 

Friday Catch Up - 31st July 2026

Friday Face Off / Doodlewash Art Challenge

I'm not keen on hyena's but I thought I would challenge myself.

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull up a Seat

The photos were taken in Koper, Slovenia. 

There are a lot of seats in front of the bar but they are hard to see on a small photo.

I have a range of trees for Thursday TreeLove.

Photo taken in Split, Croatia

Flower of the Week 

Crocosmia, although I actually took the photo for the post box [another door]

That's all folks, see you next time, have a great week.

 

Friday Face Off / Doodlewash Art Challenge

I only had one painting this week so I've included this from a while ago. One of my stencils arranged digitally on a gelli print

Photo Challenges

Monday Window, Thursday Doors, Pull up a Seat

Photos taken in Koper, Slovenia although the only seat I could see was on a bicycle so I've added three more from Bolam Lake, UK

Flower of the Week

Giant Rhubarb or Gunnera tinctoria, which is not actually related to the edible rhubarb

See you next time, enjoy your week.