Rain rain go away

I can't paint today,

it's pouring with rain and way too dark.

I will invest on a daylight lamp one day.

Today is our winter solstace,

the shortest day of the year,

and it is cold as well as wet.

It's so bad that my chooks are sitting at the back door

and everytime I open it 

they try to come in.

Now my chooks don't have good manners,

when they come in they refuse to wipe their

muddy feet and head straight to my parrot,

Charlie's cage to harass him and eat his seed.

 Plus there is the little matter of the ''presents''

they leave behind (ick).

I painted one of our three little devils a while ago.

She looks so innocent, hah, looks can be deceiving.

I did play with my new inks this week

and I painted the same fish I did in my bright watercolours

and was very surprised at the difference in brightness.

I had trouble taking a photo in the darkness

but you can see the difference.

The top one is with watercolours and the ink is below.

The orange on the watercolour seemed really bright
until I did the ink painting, surprising isn't it.

Don't you just love the squidgeyness of the inks.
I dripped the ink onto a wet surface and got this.

Here is my teapot that I painted with the inks too.

The post about it is here, if you're interested.

As well as painting I love to play with polymer clay

and here is a little fishy that I'm playing with.

He is in the very early stages and the colour

is a bit boring but it is an experiment to see if he will cook properly in my oven, so I didn't want to waste the good colours. The tail and fins will have lots of beads and dangley, twirly bits.

That's when my fingers thaw out enough to work the clay!

The best thing is that this being the winter solstace

means that the days will get longer and it is getting closer to spring.

Linking up to Paint Party Friday.

Rain, rain go away........