Forget the past

My latest painting to be finished. It's 20.4 x 20.4 cm, acrylic on board like the last one. Again the layer with the lettering is transparent and no I didn't harm the book. :-) I've used text from a very old book published over 100 years ago that was sitting on my parent's bookcase. It tells of how the biggest enemy of the goldfinch was the bird-catcher. So I suppose people must have kept them in cages. Thank god things have changed! Now these beautiful creatures visit our garden to feed on the thistle seed we put out for them.

Available... I might put this on Etsy and see if there's any interest... Ok, done it. It's listed here if you're interested.

ps. Is blogger driving anyone else mad today? This is about the 5th attempt at this post!!! Arggh! Off to pour myself a nice glass of wine!

Kingfisher

Here are some photos of the painting I used for my header (thanks Rob for the kick up the arse!). I have lots of unfinished paintings lying around that I would post if only I could resolve them.

There is a lot of texture in this painting as well as parts which are glossy and parts which are matt. The second photo shows the difference when the light catches the surface a little.

A close up so you can see the use of the text. This is not a collage. The layer with the text is completely transparent.

In other news my running is going well (thanks Si) and I've improved already after 7 sessions! I started out running a third of the distance and walking the rest. Now I'm running more than half. Somehow my overall time is staying the same so I think that means that I run the same speed that I walk!! Still, it gets the heart pumping. Plotting the times into Excel is spurring me on along with my new legs!! It was glorious being out first thing this morning. The sun was coming up over the fields, there were birds singing, rabbits nibbling and squirrels jumping. Made me feel incredibly lucky.