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September Break
ANITA DAVIES | 17 hours ago by Anita Davies
These are the rest of my entries in my Summer 2008 journal (a large watercolour Moleskine).It's been a wonderful week with Harry; we've fished, shot clays, walked along the beach and ate fish 'n' chips, rested and even been spies for a day. http://w read more
Flo Is Finished
ANITA DAVIES | October 5th 2008 by Anita Davies
These are the final few pages in my Flo journal, filled with Bockingford paper, made for me by Kala. It has been a wonderful Summer spent with this brightly coloured floral sketchbook, I shall miss her.This is my beautiful stone planter, recently res read more
Close To Home - Benwick
ANITA DAVIES | October 4th 2008 by Anita Davies
6 Skeifs Row, BenwickStill battling with the weather here and trying to get this project complete in time to publish the results into a book for release before Christmas. read more
Close To Home - Benwick
ANITA DAVIES | October 3rd 2008 by Anita Davies
4 Lilyholt Road - BenwickAnother Benwick addition to my Close to Home project.An unusually coloured home captured early morning before the sun broke. Luckily the tall sunflowers added a little warmth to the painting in the sun's absence. read more
The BIG Snip
ANITA DAVIES | October 1st 2008 by Anita Davies
How brave was I?I wrote six inches but I'm sure it was more like eight! read more
Location, Location
ANITA DAVIES | September 27th 2008 by Anita Davies
Both of these sketches were born of unusual situations.The first, was created outside the school, waiting for Harry. Now I've sketched when I collect Harry from school many times before but usually from the comfort of the truck, grabbing a moment bef read more
The Lunchbox
ANITA DAVIES | September 27th 2008 by Anita Davies
There's always time to stop for a cuppa and a sketch right? read more
15 Minute Fen
ANITA DAVIES | September 25th 2008 by Anita Davies
This sketch was completed in 15 minutes, plein air, smack bang outside of my studio during two crafty cigarette breaks while completing a painting commission. It's not perfect, it's not particularly brilliant either but it did remind me that you CAN read more
Close To Home - Benwick
ANITA DAVIES | September 23rd 2008 by Anita Davies
'Rose Cottage', Lilyholt Road, BenwickI think my reasons for choosing to paint Rose Cottage are obvious from the painting, such character with it's uneven structure and rose laden trellis. read more
Close To Home - Benwick
ANITA DAVIES | September 22nd 2008 by Anita Davies
'The Squirrels', 24 Doddington Road, Benwick. I had a wonderful time sketching this home in Benwick. Mr Benfield, the owner, crossed the road to introduce himself to me and we chatted in the rare sunshine for some time. Even from the roadside, it's o read more
Cafe Sketches
ANITA DAVIES | September 21st 2008 by Anita Davies
Another double spread in my small Canson from my day trip to Wisbech. This time from the supermarket cafe while sipping on a latte. read more
Sketching In Wisbech
ANITA DAVIES | September 20th 2008 by Anita Davies
Took my small Canson journal with me to Wisbech recently and managed to fill a couple of pages with quick, lead-free, sketches.I'm a bit of a macro girl, looking through my sketchbooks recently confirmed that to me, so I am trying to widen my view a read more
March Town In Gold 'n' Brown
ANITA DAVIES | September 18th 2008 by Anita Davies
I drop my youngest off to school at 9am and head towards March to do my banking roughly once a month, the bank doesn’t open until 10am so I’m left with time to kill while I wait.Now at first glance the car park doesn’t seem to offer much more t read more
Close To Home - Doddington
ANITA DAVIES | September 15th 2008 by Anita Davies
'Karldavalen House' High Street, Doddington.Home of my dear friends Wendy and Ralph, this new build already shows signs of character. read more
Close To Home - Benwick
ANITA DAVIES | September 14th 2008 by Anita Davies
'Jayenkay' Lilyholt Road, BenwickThe weather has been a nightmare for this project, it has rained somewhere in the region EVERYDAY throughout our whole Summer, but I have pushed on grabbing each single sunray as it passed by.I completed this adorable read more
Ain't No Sunshine...
ANITA DAVIES | September 13th 2008 by Anita Davies
This is a quick sketch I made while waiting for Harry to come out of school, it was on his first day back and I arrived far too early.I had prepared the spread with some decorative papers in advance and the flower in the garden next to where I'd park read more
A Day In Cambridge
ANITA DAVIES | September 12th 2008 by Anita Davies
During the school holiday Harry and I took a trip into Cambridge to visit the museum of zoology, an absolute feast of subjects greeted us and we had a glorious time browsing and sketching.We visited various colleges, took photos, ate sandwiches, chat read more
Column Week 32
ANITA DAVIES | September 11th 2008 by Anita Davies
This is my newspaper column, in print today in the Cambs Times and Wisbech Standard:I spent the bank holiday at Go Ape, a high wire forest adventure course in Thetford Forest, Suffolk. Not one for heights myself, I helped to keep little baby Ellie oc read more
Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland, Leicestershire.
ANITA DAVIES | September 11th 2008 by Anita Davies
Sketchbook entries from Barnsdale GardensBarnsdale gardens are situated in beautiful Rutland in Leicestershire. They were built by Television gardener Geoff Hamilton over several years for BBC TV Gardeners' World programme & various other BBC spe read more
Sir Peter Scott's Lighthouse
ANITA DAVIES | September 9th 2008 by Anita Davies
On a recent trip to St Matthews art exhibit, my good friend Joan and I took a detour over to Sir Peter Scott's lighthouse, just a few minutes drive up the road. We were thrilled to find that our visit had coincided with the recent exhibition of Sir P read more
A Quick Cuppa
ANITA DAVIES | September 8th 2008 by Anita Davies
A couple of pages from my Summer 2008 journal that involve the all important cup of coffee... Mmmm! read more
Sketches From The Old Palace, Ely
ANITA DAVIES | September 7th 2008 by Anita Davies
In between painting my 18x24 inch plein air acrylic of the Palace rear entrance I managed to fill a few pages in my large moleskine watercolour sketchbook.The Palace has it's very own chapel and so many other interesting views and corners, one could read more
The Old Palace, Ely
ANITA DAVIES | September 3rd 2008 by Anita Davies
You may remember my plein air painting above from my recent trip to The Old Palace in Ely (You can read about my day and creative battle here)Before leaving the palace, the rebel in me had one last attack of bravery and applied textured foliage to th read more
Snettisham Park Farm
ANITA DAVIES | September 1st 2008 by Anita Davies
Today was the last day of Harry's school Summer holidays, tomorrow he will start a new term in a new class and leave me for six hours daily, five days a week...AGAIN!I shall miss his company and our long days together.To make the most of our final da read more
The Old Palace, Ely
ANITA DAVIES | August 31st 2008 by Anita Davies
WIP-The Old Palace, ElyOn Wednesday my good friend Joan travelled from Coltishall, to spend a few days painting with me. The first location on our agenda was The Old Palace in Ely. The palace is currently home to Sue Ryder Care and on Thursday they w read more
Get Smart
ANITA DAVIES | August 28th 2008 by Anita Davies
A great film and the cinema was almost empty which meant I could put my feet up on the arm rest of the chair in front...Pure luxury!I received this lovely award from Mellanie Collins/Genxster...Thank you Mellanie! read more
Lunchtime Feast
ANITA DAVIES | August 27th 2008 by Anita Davies
A quick sketch before leaving the car park after an 'all you can eat' lunch with my boys in Oriental Gardens, Guyhirn.Great company, great food!I coloured the sketch later that evening back at home. read more
St Matthews and Springfields
ANITA DAVIES | August 26th 2008 by Anita Davies
This is the double spread I created while dropping off my paintings to the annual art exhibition at St Matthew's Church, Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire last week. St Matthew's, the only remaining flintstone church in Lincolnshire, is stunning and I on read more
Castle Rising
ANITA DAVIES | August 25th 2008 by Anita Davies
On a recent trip to Hunstanton beach, Harry and I stopped off to visit Castle Rising for the first time. The stone Castle was built around 1140ad and is most famous for belonging to the mother of Edward III, Queen Isabella, following her part in the read more
At The Gym
ANITA DAVIES | August 24th 2008 by Anita Davies
No, I haven't been exercising but my eldest Son has and I created this page in my journal when I picked him up. read more
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