Hedgerow. 

Small watercolour sketch on hot pressed paper. Couldn't resist placing a blackbird in the foliage ;)

Have a good weekend everyone .... hopefully we'll all see a little sunshine between the downpours!

Sun at Dovestones ~ Spring Landscape Painting

Sun at Dovestones

Small watercolour sketch on hotpressed paper. Dovestones is a beautiful reservoir area near my home, where we often walk. The water is surrounded by hills and woodland and has a different character and mood each day.

Nesting Time ~ Spring Landscape

Nesting Time ~ Watercolour  12" x 5"

I love this time of year! The green shoots and Spring flowers are everywhere plus there's the sunshine and promise of warmer summer days ahead.

We have blackbirds nesting in a tree in the garden and these last weeks I've been watching them fly to and fro with beakfuls of twigs and nest-making finds from neighbouring gardens. Everywhere in the landscape there's a buzz of activity. Wonderful!

I painted this watercolour sketch (below) from my studio window and the little painting above is a development from my imagination :)

Spring Meadow and Little Paintings!

Spring Meadow ~ Watercolour (5" x 7")

Recently, I've become hooked on painting small watercolours in a loose, sketchy style. It all started after Christmas when I decided to go back to using sketchbooks and art journals to experiment and think 'on the page'. I'd forgotten the pure freedom of working like this!

Sometimes, having many ideas for future paintings (which I tend to accumulate in my head and scribble in the back of notebooks!) can be overwhelming and make it difficult to get started at all. But a sketchbook gives pages and pages of forgiving space to play with ideas, experiment, write, collage and not judge myself during the process. Fun!

My little paintings have emerged from this process and I thought I would start to share some on my blog. I love that they don't take days and days and don't gobble my art materials. And I can explore my ideas and develop the little sketchbook sketches and scribbled notes much more quickly. It's really rewarding to get that continous feedback from the process of painting too.


Hope you all have some lovely Spring weather to enjoy!

Winter Sunset

'Winter Sunset' Watercolour © Theresa Evans

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This is a special place we visit in the Lakes to walk. The winter light at sunset was especially beautiful as it poured through the trees. A stream runs along the bottom of this hillside and you could hear the gentle babble of water and the call of birds flying home to roost.

The painting is in watercolour on Arches (NOT) paper.

Blackbird Song, Frosty Dawn ~ Mixed Media

'Blackbird Song, Frosty Dawn'  © Theresa Evans

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This is a mixed media painting in watercolour and liquid acrylics on Arches watercolour board, size: 47cm x 67cm.

Tuscan Spring

 My painting 'Tuscan Spring' has been selected for the Stockport Open Exhibition ... I'm chuffed ;) It's mixed media: acrylic and oil pastel in many layers. I have painted this scene a few months ago but wasn't happy with the light and depth of texture, especially in the grasses. So I revisited it :)

This lovely path winds through the Tuscan countryside on the way to Capella Santa Maria di Vitaleta (that much photographed hilltop church in St Quirico). I walked along this path with my husband as far as the chapel ... and back again.