re-use, re-cycle....

Its been lovely weather here again in Blighty, and to eek out every ounce of it, I've been coming home from work this week and going straight out into the garden..to water the plants and have a little wind down from the day, and then sit in my very own little bit of heaven on earth with a cuppa tea and think creative thoughts!

It was while enjoying a bit of 'thinking time' that I've decided to do a 'little' painting for the John Millest Exhibition that they will be holding where I work. 

But what to use for a canvas...I'm all out.

Then in a moment of frugality, I remembered that I had a portrait study painting I'd done while at uni, that had been busy languishing propped up against the studio wall for over 4 years!

So, tonight, as another gloriously warm, dry Summers evening beckoned, I dragged out the canvas and set to it with some good ole white paint....needs a few more layers to go, but its supposed to be another lovely day tomorrow and I'd rather deal with this painting than do boring 'indoor' housewifey stuff!!!

old study portrait of my friend Amy...

2 coats of white paint later....

There's something very ethereal about the old portrait in this 'white washed' state...something quite charming yet disarming in that veiled gaze.... wish I'd stumbled on this while I was at Uni!!!! might have helped!?!