Morag's Paintings

[morag]

My sisters and I were always artistic, looked on as a waste of time in our day (take up typing!)! It was my first love. I remember drawing, crayoning and painting from an early age. Water colours came lately but I think they are my favourite medium, though it takes some thought. The light or white in a watercolour is usually the plain paper, difficult to get back if you've applied colour!

[bobbydarg]

Morag, as a keen gardner and working in a garden centre your paintings of the calla lillies & Poinsetta
are awsome. More power to your brushes.

[down south]

Gorgeous paintings, Morag; I too liked the lilies especially.

Painting that well must give you a lot of pleasure and satisfaction ; so don't let 3T seduce you into neglecting it too much !

Susan

[little plum]

Gorgeous paintings, Morag; I too liked the lilies especially.

Painting that well must give you a lot of pleasure and satisfaction ; so don't let 3T seduce you into neglecting it too much !

Susan

I'm sure Morag will confirm that an artist will go through every human emotion during their work, and at the end will still feel uncertain.

[morag]

The uncertainty is a given and the need to 'stop before you muck things up' is difficult. The emotion thing I got with oils, but maybe that was because of my age then . Watercolour, having come late to my life, I find more lost time...I don't really remember what I'm doing, I'm just doing. maybe because you have to focus, as L.P. has said, on a reverse technique, i.e. painting in the darker shades in layers.True watercolours don't use white paint though it is available.
Again, thank you for your lovely comments, I'm quite humbled

[morag]

Morag, as a keen gardner and working in a garden centre your paintings of the calla lillies & Poinsetta
are awsome. More power to your brushes.

That'd probably be my ideal place to work, Bobby, lucky you!

[Catherine Belle]

........
Thanks too Catherine for your original posting......

...Ever the gentleman.
Cheers, PT.

[morag]

Thanks, I think,(maybe I was hoping they'd been swept under a rug!) Catherine. You are really good at this tech stuff. Sorry we didn't meet up in Newark Next time!

[Aileen Shaw]

Morag
Your paintings are lovely they are so relaxing, you are so lucky to achive that, I can't draw to save myself.
Well done
Aileen

[morag]

Thanks, Aileen. I've got a bunch more stuck in a drawer somewhere ,as are those three,and even some from hundreds of years ago shoved at the back of a wardrobe..I think. Painting has always given me great pleasure, even the ones that were cr*p!

[Sarah]

The Painting's were beautiful Morag, never ceases to amaze me
that people can paint like that, I can't even draw in a straight line..

[georgersweir]

Morag, Have you sold many paintings? If you find there are too many filling up your drawers (so to speak), perhaps we could make some arrangement to sell some and share the profits between yourself and the 3T social fund. I'm sure that BobbyDarg would be interested...