10th of January, by PurpleCathy

Today, I went to Versailles for lunch, with an Aussie friend. We had a great Thai lunch and I bought some lovely paper at the art shop.

It's not too late to join me... if you want to send me you Art Journal pages, send me a comment.

9th of January, by PurpleCathy

Normally on a Thursday, it's clean the house day.... so that is what I did. Here is a picture of the bathroom. In my real bathroom, I have ugly beige blob tiles, but I would love a colourful bathroom like this! I painted it with watercolour, wrote with black ink and added some details with some 'posca' pens. My littlest boy also helped, he painted the blue water in the bath.

8th of January by PurpleCathy

Today is Wednesday, and I am a referee all day with the two boys, in France at the moment, there is no school for small ones.... it's a battle all day long. But I'm thankful, that I spoke to my two best friends, Lisa and Louisa, even though they live on the other side of the planet. They gave me hope today. In todays work, I used watercolour, aquarelle crayons and a 'posca' pen.

7th of January by PurpleCathy

This one was drawn with black pen and given some vibrant colour using some watercolour paints.

6th of January, by PurpleCathy

Yesterday, it was back to school for the kids and so there were lots of jobs for me. During the middle of the day, it was a bit slower, so I could enjoy a cup of tea. But in the afternoon, it was a little crazy picking kids up frim school, doing HW, taking one kid to dance, giving the other one a shower, making dinner and then going to the doctors and chemist, returning home after 8.25pm. This one was drawn in black pen and later given some colour with watercolour paints.

5th of January, by PurpleCathy

Yesterday I ran away to Paris, I went to the Musée d'Orsay for a quick visit. I forgot it was a free day in the museums, as it was the first Sunday of the month. Inside, there were lots of people. I made a couple of sketches, which evolved into these two pages. Cezanne and Degas were the influences, I used watercolour, aquarelle crayons and collage. Free colourful brochures are excellent for collage.

4th of January, by PurpleCathy

Here is today's one. I used watercolour, collage with painted bus tickets, cellophane, pen and "posca" pens.