Close ups of orange Gazania’s taken with my Nikon D5500.
(c) K Wicks
Gazania Orange
Learning to paint #3
Slowly getting there and finding styles I like. I picked two tutorials, cactus sunrise and a northern lights sky. Pleased with both but instantly wanted to do the northern lights one again and have been this last weekend. Second attempt was much better! but will be on the next post. Turns out my next cactus one was pretty good too, but it all has to start somewhere.
I also wanted to see if I could recreate one of my own sunset photographs. The one I chose I have as a set of coasters so could put it in front of me to paint. Not quite exact, but I’m happy with the results.
(c) K Wicks
Wild Orchids (Spain)
Out on one of our walks in Spain, we stumbled across these orchids up in the hills. I was so excited to find not just one wild orchid type, but three! I have found a few wild orchids in the UK while out walking the dogs but never with a camera in hand. Spain however is vastly different, wildlife and insects literally just lying around. Sometimes I figured it was just too hot to do anything, for them included. Which was great for photo opportunities (hence the abundance of photos I have from spending just two years there). But these were a real treat to see.
(c) K Wicks
It’s taken a turn… (poetry)
It’s taken a turn
And not for good
Who could foresee
This year we would
See our futures
And lives destroyed
With not a thought
Thrown into the void
Not one in which
There is an end
Or one from which
You can defend
What once we knew
Has really changed
Before our eyes
They rearranged
Our thoughts and lives
Nobody can know
What next will come
In this live shitshow
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
Nuthatch
Inspired by a post I saw yesterday, I have dug out my photo of the only time I have seen a nuthatch here in the UK. Having trees close by meant we had plenty of wildlife in this small patch of garden, but was only a temporary rented property again so we weren’t there very long. I also spook birds quite easily as well, so usually have to spend some time waiting for them, this time I was lucky having put food out for the squirrels and other birds.
(c) K Wicks
Attentive Maya
Sometimes she can sit so attentively. When there is food involved of course…
(c) K Wicks
Learning to paint #2
I am thoroughly enjoying painting now and kind of wish I had found it years ago, feeling as if I have missed 20 years of something great. But I am making up for it with all evenings and weekends now taken up with painting. There is a lot more to it than I realised.
I keep switching between finding tutorials on YouTube and trying to use my own imagination. Above is imagination and below is tutorial.
At first I also switched between watercolours one weekend and acrylics the next (below). Liking both, but have settled on watercolours for now.
(c) K Wicks
Blue Marguerite
A super pretty little blue flower.
(c) K Wicks
We’re told to try… (poetry)
We’re told to try
And do what we can
But the shit has really
Hit the fan
We’re in this together
A big fat lie
They swan around
And still deny
They haven’t got
A fucking clue
Of what is truth
Or what to do
The wildest claims
But no evidence
Shall have the direst
Consequence
A fallen nation
With no foe to see
Instead ground down
By tyranny
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
Spanish sunset – 20.09.17
This was a stunning sunset, like the sky was on fire and it got more lovely as it went, ending in almost lenticular clouds. These pictures are unedited, it is as it was through the Nikon D5500. Think I have some new painting ideas here 🙂
(c) K Wicks
