Images for the 'Golden Buddha' - June 2012

(Not to be copied without my permission.)

And a very early image from the early 70's - not to be copied without my permission!

Here are the images of paintings from 2000, which are now available on greetings cards and can be ordered. (All images are copyright and not to be used without my permission.)

                                          Number 1 - 2000

                                                     Number  2 - 2000

Number 3 - 2000 (Tokoloshe)

Number 4 - 2000

Number 5 - 2000

Number 6 - 2000

Number 7 - 2000

Number 8 - 2000 

and Number 9 - 2000 (below) which is the last in this series:

                                         

Recent Art work made into greetings cards...

Here are my recent paintings which have been made into greetings cards. I am giving them names so that they can be ordered. (All images are copyrighted and may not be used without my permission.)

                                              Ganesha, the Balinese Elephant Buddha

 'Singaporean CNY'

African landscape

                                                               
                                                            Antipodean mixed landscape

African Roots

                                                                      Mask and Deer

France in December

Spiritual aims

Apparently many of my aims are spiritual in nature, and I should be aiming to get them down on paper - well that's what my horoscope says today.

I have spent some time singing to my delightful grandson Isaac - he enjoys me singing to him - the range includes the songs from toys that he has plus a Chinese New Year toy from last year - the year of the bull. I need to get a year of the tiger toy - so it can sing to him too.

The buddha painting is emerging and I have done some more this evening. When it is finished I will photograph it and place it on here - there may be a day when this blog is read by someone who has an interest in it!

That's it for today - just time to do a little more painting and then a swim and bed!

Bintan

Back from Bintan - this time there were no monitor lizards in sight - although there were birds aplenty and rat like squirrels in the trees near the pool. Of course it's great to have massages - and they certainly know how to do these well. The beach was lovely to look at and for paddling along the shore, however the red flags and warnings from the security men put us off going in - what a shame. The undertow did look strong. I could easily have stayed for a couple of weeks - well it felt like that would have been in order....

Since being back I have been busy on the buddha painting - it is coming along quite well. I am enjoying the colours - yellow, blue, beige and some browny-red. I wish I had photographed the wooden carving behind the desk at the hotel - it is wonderfully full of sea images and has some excellent designs on it. Maybe this will lead to a return trip there before too long, so that I can look at it in more detail, and draw some of its images. It doesn't seem wrong to use decorative features from other people's art work - I so enjoy the repeat patterns in Indonesian carvings and materials. There is a peaceful quality to them and some of the colours are quite understated - burnt oranges, browns, yellows, and some black too.

That's all for now as the evening has drifted away - nearly time to turn in...