A Fiddle-y Week...

 The title is not a typo

 and no my already non existent punctuation skills have not deteriorated further

  this lino print is of a fiddle leaf philodendron

  I tried to do the whole clever title which I am not too sure I pulled it off
 but lame arse  titles are a bit of a trademark with me by now I would think

  I love these plants an inordinate amount

  the leaves are like great green shiny plates

 and they seem to be scarily hardy, and cat proof

 despite Barry attempting to have a bit of a climb yesterday

 Happily it was intact, as was Barry 

 which is a good thing as I swear the guy at the nursery blanches with horror every time I  come waltzing in looking for something else to kill

 I garden the same way I do most other things

  which means with no organisation and by the seat of my pants

 so it is inevitable that a few won't make it

 but these babies have been thriving... at the moment

so immortalising them before they cark it is a bit of an insurance policy

 and proof that at one time they actually looked amazing

So I started with a sketch

which I loved...a lot

and thought I would do it as a lino print

not sure it is the most obvious idea

because we don't all look at a complicated leaf structure and see a lino print 

but all's well and all that and it was great fun 

so that means it was a success all over the place if I do say so myself

I am carefully limiting myself to some lino while work jobs are drying and things

to save myself from going down my normal obsessive rabbit hole

which would see the family not being fed

 or perhaps their meals being turned into subjects

which has certainly happened on more than one occasion

and perhaps we would find clothes piling up

which I might just try to write off as an installation

or another possible subject

I have tried using that one before though and they didn't fall for it

so in the interests of family harmony I am showing uncharacteristic restraint

 It is funny how you just can't kill old habits off in some things

when I was teaching lino printing in my past life as a high school art teacher

I always got the students to draw in the black and white 

so that they could see clearly what to carve

and now I can't seem to shake the habit myself

but it does save a bit of brain ache along the way

and I admit that I love how this turned out so I see many more in my future

I have even started drawing up a plan for an online class

I am loving teaching Delicious Paint and think this would be a fun subject for another one

Mugs from Katja, Mo, Donna and Sandra

 Finally this week I am sharing the latest Cuppa paintings

I am loving the new ones people are sending in

and hope many more come my way... 

the pile is still looking healthy but I am loving it so much and madly painting away
which means I am having the mild anxiety of worrying that I might run out of them
it's not going to happen any time soon
but even still... always room for more!

happy painting all...xx