Archive for January, 2010

Lemons

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , on January 30, 2010 by Jenny

This is a painting of a bowl of lemons, based on a picture posted on Twitter by Priscilla Woolworth (@ecowoolworth). She has an excellent eco store online. The new Woolworths.

Priscilla grew these lemons in her garden in Southern California. I painted them on my iPhone in London.

Various parts of the lemon plant are diuretic, antiscorbutic, astringent and febrifuge.

Lemons

Priscilla's Lemons

Lemon is excellent against rheumatism, arthrosis, and cholesterol. It has a great capacity to regenerate white corpuscles, strengthening the body’s defences.

It’s also very good against acne ( because it’s depurative)

The essential oil has antitumoral properties, preventing the formation of cancerous cells and helping the body not to develop metastasis once the disease has appeared.

Lemons are full of Vitamin E and C, antioxidant and very good for the skin.

There are so many uses.

I love lemons. Our cat is named after this magnificent fruit.

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Hazelnut

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , on January 27, 2010 by Jenny

This is a sketch done with ‘ink’ on the Vellum app on my iPhone. I’ve called it Hazelnut because the hair reminds me of the shape of a hazelnut.

Hazelnut

Hazelnut hair

I then opened it in the ‘Brushes’ app, and added colour, and a tree, to make this:

Country Hazelnut

Country Hazelnut

Isn’t it amazing : the Black and White drawing automatically looks Urban, but with colour it looks positively bucolic?

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Materia Medica II

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , , , on January 19, 2010 by Jenny

I finished a second piece of the larger painting I’m working on, Materia Medica.

Marigold was named by Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, Calendula officinalis.

These flowers can be made into a tea that is exceptionally good for the eyesight. Quite miraculous. Marigold contains Lutein.

Marigold-Materia Medica

Materia Medica II - Marigold

I painted this with Pixelmator on my laptop, using a trackpad as paintbrush. Difficult, but not a painful as painting the Parsley (see below).

I’m going to paint more pieces of Materia Medica next week.

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Chameleon

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , on January 18, 2010 by Jenny

This is a brooch which is both nothing special and absolutely precious.

My mother and I both have one – we gave them to each other (she started it, but I could tell she really wanted it for herself).

A chameleon is all about change, and an intelligent sense of tact (when in Rome, chameleons do as the Romans do…or at least they look as the Romans look).

Wild colours, amazing curve to the tail. The word chameleon means Lion of the Ground in ancient Greek, I think.

Chameleon Brooch

Chameleon

So this is zoology at two steps removed…a jewellery representation of a fascinating creature, painted digitally on my iPhone. What would Plato say about that?

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Japanese

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags on January 17, 2010 by Jenny

I like the way the Japanese incorporate a philosophical concept into a painting movement as if it were a noun. EG, they don’t speak about Fauvists (the painters) or about Cubism (the movement), they talk about Wabi-Sabi (finding beauty in imperfection) as a thing. Like an object.

A frame of mind has such a powerful impact on what happens during the course of a life.

This painting I did yesterday is definitely imperfect, and there’s a strange gender confusion in it, but I think it’s beautiful.

I may add some little spots of pollen around the stamens of the orchid in the hair, still undecided.

Japanese

Japanese

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Irish Brooch

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , on January 13, 2010 by Jenny

Getting better results with the iPhone ‘Brushes’ app. I’m pleased with the texture of this lady’s jacket.

Irish Brooch

Irish Brooch

Good news. My friend Vanessa of Swedish Blonde Design has printed ‘Red Brows’ from my December archives in A3 size, and it came out good and crisp. This is exciting. Maybe my prints can be bigger than I thought.

See Vanessa’s irrepressible work at http://www.swedishblondedesign.com

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Materia Medica – detail

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , , , on January 10, 2010 by Jenny

This is the first stage of a big composition I’m doing, called Materia Medica.

I painted it on my laptop computer at the kitchen table while my husband was cooking supper (Spaghetti alle vongole). I had to paint fast as he was going to need quite a bit of parsley to finish off the dish.

Materia Medica 1

Parsley - Materia Medica

It strains the lower arm muscles to paint using the trackpad like this. You have to click and hold down the cursor with your thumb, and then use the index finger to move the cursor as a paintbrush. Not easy. I’m going to have to wait a bit to do more work on this composition, because my arm is still sore. Eventually I’ll get a painting tablet. But I really love this parsley so it’s worth it.

Parsley’s volatile oils, particularly Myristicin, have been shown to inhibit tumour formation, especially in the lungs. It is rich in Vitamins K, C,and A, full of iron and anti-oxidants. One of the magical plants that is so common, you could mistake it for ordinary.

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