Having loaded these two pics into blogger I am unable to move them. It just won't let me. So I shall post around them. They are the result of some one handed drawing and painting I did in the sketchbook I am giving away.
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By the way I forgot to say that comments on this blog will go into the hat for the book, as well as those on Workshop on the Web's Facebook page. Thanks for reminding me that we need to do both, Stitcher, but only one name per person, please.
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The pics are the result of some metallic watercolours I bought, recommended by Jane Wild, and they are lovely. You can't see the full effect in these pics but they give a great gleam and many work together for a variety of effects. Daniel Smith's Extra Fine Watercolours (got mine from Jacksons) and I will write a full review in December's WoW.
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So I'm back again, using one hand in 'hunt and peck' mode - not easy when upper case is needed. Thanks so much for all your good wishes - it's all going very well, not nearly as painful as expected. Something of a surreal experience, lying down with arm outstretched, chatting to a nurse who lived near me about our local traffic chaos while, on the other side of the screen, my hand was being tortured.
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Anyway, the big bandage is off and a smaller one applied. Quite spectacular bruises - should have photographed them, the colours were great. Arnica is wonderful for bruising so they will soon fade.
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I managed to give a talk in Salisbury on Thursday, which was fun and seemed to go well, in spite of struggling with a microphone and the laser pointer (known as Mr Pointy) in the same hand.
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Clive is great at cooking, but rubbish at blow-drying so I treated myself to a hairdresser visit yesterday and am now feeling great.
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Clive is great at cooking, but rubbish at blow-drying so I treated myself to a hairdresser visit yesterday and am now feeling great.
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Must go now and direct operations in the garden. I have the perfect excuse for my favourite gardening method - pointing and saying 'just plant it there'.
Try Livewriter. Compose in Livewriter, do what you like with your photos and text, and then post it onto your blog.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem I have ever had is that the preview in Livewriter isn't always accurate, and sometimes you need to retrieve the post and juggle it a bit - but none of that fruitfness rearranging you need to do in blogger!
Can I leave a message for the give away here please Maggie?
ReplyDeleteYou sound in great spirits Maggie and I am so pleased everything went well for you. A gold star for Clive and his cooking - it would be takeaways if my husband was chef. Your one handed drawings are so good and those paints sound interesting. Please put my name in the hat for the giveaway and enjoy your virtual gardening!
ReplyDeleteThe metallic watercolors ARE lovely. I'm wanting that book!
ReplyDeleteHope you are fully recovered soon- glad everything went well
ReplyDeleteI hope your hand continues to get better but I have to say I like your method of gardening! Your sketchbook looks wonderful and inspirational but I very rarely win anything! Still, you never know.
ReplyDeleteWe share gardening methods. I firmly believe that is how it is supposed to be done1 Glad you are reduced to a smaller bandage, good signs. (I wrote "sighs" the first time and I have 2 relatively good hands!) Don't push it. love those paints also.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the response to my moan about Facebook yesterday Maggie. Please will you enter me for the draw.
ReplyDeleteRegarding WOW content - please more of the same, I particularly like to see new materials and ideas for their use.
Glad to hear the hand is recovering.
Blogger needs to work on the feature of uploading and positioning images.
ReplyDeleteMetallic watercolours? I never knew they even existed.
Here's to prompt recovery Maggie. Have you photoshopped the bruises yet?
ReplyDeleteHi Maggie
ReplyDeleteglad your feelng better.
the new paints sound good.
Jean
Even with one hand you make wonderful things.
ReplyDeleteGr. Marjolijn
Maggie, I do hope your wrist continues to heal well - and quickly. There are some things which are just so hard or slow to do when recovering. I am guessing that Clive will be pleased when you are back to 'normal'too! Keep smiling...
ReplyDeleteYOu can't keep a creative person down that's for sure! Hope your recovery is quick and that you will soon be double handed again! Please put me down for your give away.
ReplyDeleteHi Maggie
ReplyDeleteI hope your hand heals quickly and you get back to normal (what's that?) asap. I'd keep the recovery going for ages for the gardening, though not for the stitching! Please would you put my name down for the give away? Gill
You're doing a very good job considering you're one handed! I like the sketchbook pages.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could live without my hand, I would be bored out of my brain, but you seem to be coping well and hopefully it will help. Please put my name in the hat
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as though there could be advantages to being single handed Maggie. Glad all went well and good wishes for a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteYour one hand is a lot better than my potential 2 hand... I'd love to receive your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI have found there is something quite magical using one hand and not taking the pen off of the page. I discovered my drawing was far better !! Hope the op works in the long term
ReplyDeleteGlad your hand is on the mend, your sketchbook pages look fabulous. Love the paint effects. Please add me to your draw. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI don't think Smudge will be checking out the pool again in a hurry! (I do miss having a cat...sigh)
ReplyDeleteHope your hand is improving and that Clive loves cooking so much, he'll keep it up (wishful thinking?)
I can't see when the draw will be but if I'm not too late, may I be included?
glad everything is going well - I'm sure it will feel so much better in the long run
ReplyDeleteHope I'm not too late for the draw but I think your sketchbook sounds rather fun to have - your one handed effort is so much better than my two!! Good luck with recovery. Gill G in Tassie.
ReplyDeleteThe sketchbook page is gorgeous! Luv it
ReplyDelete- Britt in Aus :-)
I hope you are healing quickly and typing with two hands soon. We are so dependent on these apendages of ours, especially the hands. The watercolors are beautiful! Take care.
ReplyDeleteJust had time to look at my current WOW magazine. Congratulations on 10 years. Hoping to use it to get my mojo going again. Kind Regards
ReplyDeleteJanette
Probably to late for your wonderful draw but please count me in anyway!
ReplyDeleteInspiring ... we all need to get back to drawing/painting sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI have damaged hands from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and the majority of my work is stitched on a machine, but every once in a while when my hands are good, I like to draw.
Hope you are back to stitching soon.