The finished garden feature. No mortar, every stone placed carefully by hand, unbeatable sustainability credentials, and guaranteed to last hundreds of years. What's not to like?
The niche is also a very unusual design. I've never seen a niche with a vertical stone backing and wanted to try to make one. It worked a treat, and our clients have something really unique.
I also love how the colours of the stone really come through after the rain.
With love from me to you - Inspired by a heart-shaped sunflower I spotted in a sunflower field, I painted this small floral still life using watercolors in bright tones of yellow, orange, red, green, teal, blue, pink and purple.
Ok, pour celui-là vous allez avoir envie/besoin d’un peu de contexte :
La semaine dernière, à peu près au même moment où un ministère examinait les tests PISA et concluait que les jeunes sont pas des lumières, chez nous une élève s’énervait car sa feuille d’exercices mentionnait un pays qu’elle connaissait pas : le Goéland (prononcez « Goélande »)
Loin de se laisser abattre, le prof m’a demandé une carte de cette terre mystérieuse.
La voici donc :
I was a big Greek mythology buff at school. My dad had bought an encyclopedia in the late '70s, and I was learning everything about it via it. Naturally, my favorite character was goddess Athena. All about knowledge & wisdom. The most kind-hearted of the gods too. So I had to paint a portrait in her honor.