Roscoff - Johnnies and Onions

We went on holiday this year to Roscoff where these famous strings of onions had originated from in Brittany, France. "Johnnies" are people who are tasked with creating these onion sellers. Every August, from the 17th Century these Johnnies, along with the Onions left France to sell their onions on  the other side of the channel. They sold the onions by going door to door  by bicycle, this happened seasonally fitting in with the growth of the onions growth and demand from the public . This is  my watercolor version of one that sits outside a creperie in Roscoff  town center.

Laura Trott - London 2012

To add to my collection of Olympians and Paralympians, here is Laura Trott, London 2012 for her was her debut Olympics. She competed in the Women's Team Pursuit (Cycling) with Dani King and Jo Rowsell with an outstanding, world record breaking time of 3:14:051. 

Laura also managed to add another gold medal to her collection with a gold in the Women's Omnium. 

To read more about Laura Trott, then visit this link to her profile on the BBC Sport website. 

Click here to view my London 2012 Page 

Laura Robson - London 2012

Continuing with the London 2012 theme, here is an action shot of Laura at the games, she won a silver medal alongside Britain's Number 1 - Andy Murray.

This may not be the most flattering shot of Laura, but it is an action shot!!

Hannah Cockroft - London 2012 Paralympic games

This is Hannah Cockroft (Hurricane Hannah) at the London 2012 Paralympic games. She won two gold medals;  one in the T34 100m and the other gold in the T34 200m. To find out more about Hannah Cockroft, visit this link. Read more about Hannah's disability, and how she managed to make it to London 2012, Click here

Jessica Ennis - London 2012

To go with my collection of London 2012 pictures, here is my latest. Done in watercolors, I hope you like this!I wasn't sure what Jessica Ennis' surname was since she got married, but congratulations to her anyway!!

Lizzie Armitstead - London 2012 (Updated)

This is Lizzie Armitstead just after she won her silver medal at last years Olympic Games from the Women's Road Race, this was Team  GB's first Olympic medal, closely followed by Rebecca Adlington's bronze in the 400m freestyle.

To read more about Lizzie Armitstead in the London 2012 Olympics Click here

Wimbledon 2013 Poster

I did enter this into the Blue Peter competition but it failed, so I thought that you might like to see it!

 

On this one I would really appreciate some comments, particularly as I didn't get anything from the competition!

 

Wimbledon Ball Boys (and girls) at the centre court

There may be snow on the ground but its never too soon to think about the summer, so here it is watercolour and watercolour pencil.

St Paul's Cathedral, London

The fourth and final one in my London collection, this one is of St Paul's Cathedral, done in watercolour and watercolour pencils!

Embankment - London

Watercolour painting, again for the frame I mentioned in my last post, as always feel free to email clairesart123@live.co.uk

Piccadilly Circus

This is my latest painting, of Piccadilly Circus, London. I have a 3D Frame that takes four photos/paintings, that I have decorated, the plan is that this painting will be one of those four!

Portland Bill

As promised, here it is, filmed and edited by me, but the painting is by my dad, check out his other paintings... www.guyspaintings.blogspot.com 

Castle Hedingham- Essex

Done using mixed media on watercolor paper; hope you like it!

Charcoal Pencils for the windows
Watercolor paints for the background
Derwent Watercolour Pencils for the castle

Derwent Watercolour Pencils - Parrot

At the NEC - Birmingham I brought a pack of 36 watercolour pencils and here is my result!

Again this is taken with the iPad camera!

London Eye by night

This is my latest, done using watercolours. I didn't use standard black out of the tube I mixed it up using burnt umber and ultramarine, this is because black out of the tube can look a bit too "bold" on a picture.

Take a look at the London eye website for more information: http://mobile.londoneye.com/

It's a Puffins Love!

I couldn't think of any better titles for these two puffins having a rather "intense" moment!! But anyway this is a watercolour picture!

St Malo,France

Hello again! This time this is from inside the intra muros so I hope you like it!!

St Malo is on the Brittany coast next to the ferry port- you can get a ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo in 10 hours on Brittany Ferries, that's what we did summer 2012, which was REALLY good! No delays. We went on the overnight sailing on the way out to St Malo then the daytime sailing on the way back. Check out the brittany ferries website here- http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/quote-book?gclid=CI6T1q3ysLMCFUfJtAodOmYA2w

St Malo - France

Intramuros- Basically the walled city. We went there for our summer holiday this year via Brittany Ferries. The only bad point about it was that I really want to go again!

Kingfisher's Lunch

As I promised, watercolour painting. Taken from the latest Countryfile magazine- I hope you like it! (Picture taken using the iPad so excuse the slightly blurred image)!

The Olympic Park

This is the Olympic Stadium with Orbit, apparently a potential british "Eiffel Tower" I don't know what they are doing with the Olympic Park after the games so I thought I should capture the park as it is in the year of the games (2012).