Italy

I’ve just returned form an inspirational tour of Italy, I’m sure many paintings will follow.

If you want to see some of my photos taken in Venice click below

Some photo’s of Florence

Watercolour or not?

I’ve been devoting a great deal of time to developing a method for overglaze painting ( or china painting as it’s often called) that is more akin to watercolours than to traditional china painting methods. I mix my overglaze paints with sugar and water in the wells of my palette, and then use water to paint with as you would with watercolours. As I’m working on a ceramic tile you cannot wet it first like paper, my way around this is to spritz on water allowing the colours to mingle and run.

Wiltshire trees

This painting is on a ceramic tile, it measures 20×30 cm

This is another painting using the same ‘watercolour’ technique for a china painting

Hello world!

Hello and welcome to my very first blog entry. My name is Jill Egan, I am an artist/artisan working in watercolours and kiln fired art such as dichroic jewellery and recycled glass items.

This a watercolour commission I was working on yesterday, it’s for an 80th birthday present, I hope he likes it.

It’s sometimes difficult doing commission work as it’s not always a subject I would choose to paint, fortunately I liked this one the challenge was working from a small photograph.

I’ll be posting a variety of pieces that I’m working on so please come back soon