My children are magpies. They find the most extraordinary things: rusted nuts and bolts, fossils, lichens and unusually shaped bones, stones and sticks.
Grace brought me in a recent haul:
Lichens; in detail these are incredibly beautiful. We have identified all these lichens from our Lichens in Ireland book (what lichen-geeks. I know)
And this really unusual, very beautiful branch; reminds me so much of Georgia O’ Keeffe:
Do these excite you in the same way that they excite me?! I’ve been drawing these and cannot wait to use them as structure in my paintings 🙂
Talking of paintngs, do have a look at my dads blog here, he recently completed this painting, isnt it beautiful? And check out my That Curious Love of Green: I have found another Notebook Fanatic!!!
Oh the talent of all of you, especially Grace with her great finds!
Love these! And your dad’s painting, too…I didn’t know he was a painter (but should have guessed!) Hope your foot is getting MUCH better x
that is a FANTASTIC video!! how great to see. there is a fun drawing exercise where you draw an object that is a bit complicated but you never look down at the page to see what you’ve done. that branch looks ideal. i bet you would get beautiful lines from it. it IS very o’keefe!
@Joanna, our collective ” great finds” are the reason we have so much stuff… Total hoarders!!!
@Sophie, thank you, it is so much better tg! I can walk, wahey!!
@Rita Maria, what a brilliant idea, I’ll do that tomorrow. I know the children would be fascinated by the idea too, thank you x
What beautiful finds. We have to buy lichens like that at our local craft store to use when we make fairy houses! Your dad’s painting is fabulous.
Never, ever thought you would be able to buy lichens in a craft store!! Crikey, I could stock several craft shops, ha ha!