Advent Calendar and digital Mandala art.

I have been using some digital processes to work with photographs I've taken.

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And I'm enjoying choosing and moving the forms around to make Mandala type images.

I have used images of my paintings, bubbles, woodland and sky, the sea and decorations.

It seems almost anything can be used, but I particularly like the bluebells and wood, trees and
flowers.

Using some of these new images and others I've put together an online Advent calendar.

You can make up your own on their site.

Studying Sunflowers

My daughter Ruth bought a lovely bunch of sunflowers this week. I have been enjoying looking at them, taking a few photos and doing some sketches.

We also had a sunflower self seeded in the path at the front of the house, it seemed right to leave it to flower.

As the weather is getting colder, the sunflowers bring a sense of warmth and summer in the house.

I used my water colour pencils and pen and ink for the sketches and some digital processing for the photographs.