New Lighthouse Painting: "Shine..."

Hello there. Hope you've had a great week. 

This week's illustration has a touch of nostalgia for me...

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 When I was a teenager, we lived by the sea. And on clear nights, you could see  the lighthouse at Portland (Dorset),  a good 30 miles away, but beaming steadily through the darkness. There was always something very solid and comforting about that, even on land, and in times that were so much more certain.

All these thoughts of lighthouses got me to thinking about how it still feels important that each of still remembers to *shine*  brightly whenever  and as much we feel able.

And so the design was born. It's a hand drawn "traditional", line and wash watercolour/watercolour, but finished off digitally. So a true hybrid, really.

 Hope it sparks something for you too (and there are more details about it here, if it "floats your boat," as it were. (No puns were intended when I began that sentence, but hey, who could resist by the end? :-) )

Have a lovely weekend, in any event.

More soon.

Feel-Good Pic: Light in the Dusk

From today, I'm going to do my best to post something each day that has a feel good element to it. You can never add too much cheerfulness, right?

We took this first offering last Saturday. The Computer Man and I don't normally spend much time photographing landmarks in our own city...(tut tut, because it's beautiful, really).

But there we were, walking down the South Bank of the Thames. From where we came across an unusual view of St Pauls, which put light and warmth into the winter twilight...