Hi there, friends, neighbours and fellow-artists!

In case you didn’t know: Apart from painting watercolours I also like to do pottery; I find it wonderfully relaxing and great fun to mess around with clay!

I’ve made quite a few not-so-bad-at-all pots recently and would like to share them with you guys, which is why I’ve opened a Pottery Section in my gallery. The reason I’m informing you via this Journal Entry is because I’ll upload the photos to “Scraps” as I don’t want to clutter up my (main) watercolour gallery.

So, please feel free to drop in anytime and have a look (and a good laugh) at Pat’s Funky Pots.


Pat

Hi folks,

Just in case you’ve been wondering what happened to me – hardly around any more, totally unproductive – well, it’s the time of the year again which I call “house-guest season” - January, February, March, when the weather in Europe is at its worst and everybody wants to escape to somewhere warm. And if you then are lucky enough to have family or friends in such beautiful and sunny corners of the world like the Philippines…. You get my drift.


It’s a very busy time for me, but also lots of fun and always good for new inspiration, as I very often take the opportunity of accompanying my guests on their trips around the Philippines. Which is why I’ve been in and out of town lately, up to the mountains and down to the beaches, while my studio has been gathering dust, and painting and hanging out at DA have been very much on the back-burner.
But things will get back to “normal” soon!

In the meantime I’m uploading a painting that’s been sitting around for weeks and weeks, just waiting for the finishing touches – “Red Hot Passion # 1”
Hope you like.

Cheerio Pat

Hi amigos!

Read this in an Art Magazine and thought I’d like to share it with you guys.


YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN ARTIST WHEN…..

….you notice everything in terms of tube colours: Look, what beautiful Quinacridone Gold leaves!

…while changing the baby's diaper you suddenly think of Jackson Pollock... (this one's my favourite! )

…when you meet someone and wonder what they would look like as a drawing/ painting.

. . when you see a colour and wonder what colours you would mix to get it.

. . .when you’re making a shopping list and you remember that you need art supplies - every time!

…when you name your dog/ cat after an art form/ technique or famous artist.

...when your change jar is labeled 'brush fund'.

…when you notice the light and shadow on everything, and the patterns they make and how the light feels and the color and temperature of that light, if its harsh or soft.

…when you walk into someone’s house and look at the walls first.

…when you are driving and the cloud formations are more interesting than the road ahead and you get stopped by the cops for erratic driving and have to blow into the little tube!

...when ALL the walls in your house are covered with art - yours!, and when you turn everything you look at into art, squinting perpetually as you go through life.

...when everyone loves your art but no one wants to actually pay money for it, yet you continue to spend your life creating it.

…when you push the kids out of the way because you've just discovered a fantastic new medium called play dough.




…… please feel free to continue……

A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.

After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van.
However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas.

When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied:

"Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings; I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh!"

Now let's see if you have De Gaulle to tell this one to your friends!
I just thought I'd post it here because I have nothing Toulouse....

Outch, outch, outch!!

Question: What can a woman do whose husband, sent to the cellar to fetch some potatoes, falls down the stairs and breaks his neck?

Answer: She can cook pasta instead.

Outch!