Our first house was next to Bill Roger's farm at Boarhills. Sometimes I crept round to the farmyard and climbed the haystack in the barn. It's a good place to be.
Illustration Friday Farm and Memory book painting
A space to share my creative efforts.
Alison
My illustrated childhood memoir
About my 'memory paintings'.
Inspired by Neil Curtis in his book, 'The Memory Book', my memory paintings catch impressions and moments from my first ten years, in St Andrews, Scotland in the 60's. They are all 12 x 9 cm, mostly pen and watercolour, on Arches HP. They are now published in an 8" x 10" book through Blurb.
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- Janey's journal
- Jennifer Lawson
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- Laura's 'Laurelines'
- Laurent Peters
- Liz Steel, Sydney
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- Mattias Adolfsson
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- Penny in South Australia
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- Kristin Nicholas - knitter
- Liz Berg
- Liz Copeland
- Mags Ramsay (UK)
- Margaret in London
- Nigel's weaving blog
- Olga, UK
- Quilted out of space
- Ragged Cloth Cafe
- Rayna
- Red Thread Studio
- Sharon B's Pin Tangle (embroidery)
- Silkenwind
- Spirit Cloth
- Stitch Loop
- Sublime stitching
- Subversive Stitch
- Susie Monday
- Terry Jarrard-Dimond
- Tom of Holland
- Valerie Goodwin
11 comments:
Your detail in this is GREAT! I just love these memory sketches! We had haystacks, too!
i like your loose style, resembling quentin blake..
Oh, this is sooooo lovely! I love it.
That's so cute! All those little details, wonderful!
Gorgeous, loving detail, wonderful!
sweet and charming view!
Alison, thank you for letting us all sit in the hay loft with you! Sharing your memory journey is a special treat! Even our 10 year old granddaughter enjoys it! Your watercolors bring it all alive with such glorious detail and warmth!
You sure brought back MY memories, I love your drawings and I have to say thanks for the chuckles this morning with the comment you made on my blog about the mermaids!
Lydia
I like your style. Your paintings are so real, not realistic but just true. Like the viewer is there remembering the scene too. It's a very friendly way to paint. And I linked to you too :D
The perspective is wonderful, looking down and the colors and drawing are just great. What a wonderful place to be a kid.
So impressed with the very idea of the memory sketches, not to mention the execution! These are fine paintings! I started painting my dreams, about a year back, my first attempt at subject matter that wasn't drawn from life. They turned out better than I expected, and now, with the inspiration you have given me here, I intend to explore some of my memories in this way. Thank Youyv
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