Feeling inspired

The better weather we experience in Europe whilst traveling always makes everything feel so much better and that includes my art practice. I'm not going to bore you, I'm just going to share a few pictures of stuff that I've been working on.

The top two are a work in progress painting in my sketchbook and there is more colour to be added but I like to preserve the earlier stages digitally in case I wreck it at some point lol.

The linocut I'm quite pleased with but as mentioned previously I can only print in black at this moment so the colourised version has been achieved digitally for now.

Both of these will be available in the summer as HPP (hand painted prints) and digital prints. In other news I am communicating with A .Gallo watercolours in Assisi. I purchased from them last year for the first time and their paints are just wonderful. As we are in Italy and will be able to visit the shop in person I am building a wonderful shopping list. More of that next time though.

Thanks for reading.

Wendy xx

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