Visual Diary ideas

I thought that I would post one of the pages in my visual diary to show the ideas I am coming up with in regards to these abstracted landscapes and seascapes. I have three that I am nearly finished with that I just need to add the embedded objects and resin but here are some other ideas I have been playing with.

I find watercolour pencils a great way to play around with colour ideas as these are all about colour and jewel-like colours with texture and glossiness.

I have been thinking about a place I have been at a certain time and then reducing that down to the colours that I feel when I think about it and how that could translate.

I'm really enjoying these and it is a nice break from oils (which I perhaps use a bit more seriously). For some reason I feel that I can play more with acrylics and I wouldn't know why. It could be that acrylics are easy to paint over and start again if it doesn't work and in fact most of these canvases that I am using are pre-used acrylic paintings that I never finished or was unhappy with that I have covered and textured and it feels great to re-use them.

I am making good progress with the coloured pencil portrait of my Labrador and am over half way through. It is a long long process with coloured pencils but I actually find it quite meditative to do that detailed work that takes hours and hours and hours. I normally don't watch TV but we are watching LOST on DVD at the moment so this keeps me busy while watching as I find it hard to sit and watch without something to do other than watching the TV.