It's a very chilly, blustery end to November as I type this but dinnae worry! I have a hot water bottle and leftover home made soup so I'll power through. It's been a very busy month and I'm looking forward to wrapping it up with this journal and going in to a hopefully more relaxed end of the year.

Starting off as usual with a fresh round of postcard landscapes that look a lot more colourful than the view out of the window...think I captured a bit of the wind, though! You can look at them individually here in their own gallery.

The biggest thing that I painted this month (this year?) was over the top of a big A1 frame I bought to display one of my Sellisternian pieces as part of the VACMA show. The whole time I was itching to get it home so I could turn it in to a new piece! I resurfaced it in the same way I do my Scope pieces and then built a landscape over layers. I love the end result, it looks bold on the wall and blurs the lines between frame, window, subject and object.

My mycelial mission led to this trio of acrylic pieces which you can see with the rest of their shroomy cousins here in the Myco Gallery. Some of those textures came from using a soft printing place over the top of acrylic paint, feels very nice, highly recommend.

I'm so pleased with this little A3 mixed media portrait but how can I not be when there is the glorious combo of blue and orange but with bonus gold? You simply can't lose. I was messing around with doing a coloured pencil layer under clear gesso and painting over the top with very pretty results but I need to be more bold with it next time.

I spent some time stuck in bed this month, pulled out a watercolour palette that I haven't used in a while and messed around in my sketchbook for a few pages. It was a good distraction and has me itching to do some more involved watercolour work next month.

I also did a pile of acrylic ink wintery postcards for my ma to send out as Christmas cards. I'm feeling that crisp winter sky in real life today!

I did three more workshops this month for Studio Club on colour mixing, monochromatic painting and printmaking with oil pastels. The oil pastel printmaking specifically got ideas cooking so maybe you'll see more of that in 2025...

So that's your lot for the November 2024 journal update! I have a couple of arty projects planned for next month but a lot more tidying and organising on the agenda. But first! I'm on my second play through of Rogue Trader and that will be how I close out November. I'll be back at the end of December (and 2024!!) with another journal update and I'll link it below once it's done.