Heather Hoodies

Relive the 90s with this Melrose-inspired tee that expresses exactly how most people feel about the start of the work week. Mondays are a bitch!

Inspired by the Jerrabomberra grasslands in Canberra and that are home various marsupials and insects.

Butterfly Drinking Watercolour Painting

Bush Bay is a limited palette watercolour painting in which I chose to experiment with some different painting techniques.

Originally a monoprint made on gelli plate using acrylic paint - this print was then worked on with black and white ink to create this mixed media work.

A view across Maize Beck in Upper Teesdale, on the border with both Durham and Cumbria. The view out over the beck passes across an area called Golden Mea, towards the distance where the lifting cloud and fog partially hides Meldon Hill. This area forms part of the walk from Langdon Beck, around Cronkley Scar, Falcon Clints to the Cow Green Reservoir

Ladybird amongst the heather

I did a small monoprint created using a gelli plate acrylic paint and over printed it with a lino cut and printing ink. I scanned it and then digitally made 4 copies of it to create a pattern.

Originally this was a small glue and ink mixed media piece. I photographed and played with it digitally on one of those days when I just wanted to do something bright or quirky or right in your face - anyway, this was the result.

You can decide the level of sarcasm that goes along with this. Maybe you're genuinely having a great day. Maybe things are more sub-optimal than they've ever been. It's all in your tone - well that's JUST DUCKY.

"it takes a lot of bravery to look around you and see the world not as it is but as it should be. A world where the quarterback becomes best friends with the gay kid, and the girl with the big nose ends up on Broadway. Finding the courage to open up your heart and sing about it. That's what glee club is. And for the longest time I thought that was silly, and now I think it's just about the bravest thing that anyone could do." Quote from the last episode of de TV show Glee.

Jewel Beetle, a watercolour painting by Heather Holland, would make a wonderful present for someone who likes realistic art with a nature theme.

Rumors

I was doing a mixed media piece of work with faint fish images on it with sections of gold and silver acrylic. Half way through I decided to photograph it and as it was a dull day I used a flash. The resulting images looked like this and were absolutely nothing like the painting. I am assuming it was something to do with the flash and reflective nature of the gold and silver paint, but I was so taken with the “happy accident” that resulted that I decided to use them as Red Bubble images. On Red Bubble is the only way they could be sold as the original looks nothing like these photos (unfortunately). This is a close up section of the painting.

I was doing a mixed media piece of work with faint fish images on it with sections of gold and silver acrylic. Half way through I decided to photograph it and as it was a dull day I used a flash. The resulting images looked like this and were absolutely nothing like the painting. I am assuming it was something to do with the flash and reflective nature of the gold and silver paint, but I was so taken with the “happy accident” that resulted that I decided to use them as Red Bubble images. On Red Bubble is the only way they could be sold as the original looks nothing like these photos (unfortunately). This is a close up section of the painting.

Bird Perched

Show your love for Glee with this fun design or give it to someone as the perfect gift.

Walter in a forest of mushrooms

Cloud and mist forming around Carl's Wark on Hathersage Moor, Peak District, England below Higger Tor. Nikon D7100 17-50 sigma

I like painting umbrellas. These are some watercolour umbrellas from one of my other paintings, which I have digitally copied and arranged into a pattern just for a bit of fun.

Oh dear, can't stop playing with photoshop and making my original pen and ink black and white tangle ever brighter!

My original black and white 60's style design in some fashion colours.

Just some art about art.

"Old and Ancient Tree" is a print from a lino cut made by Heather Holland. The inspiration for it was an article about trees over 1000 years old and still alive on sparse rugged mountain tops.

This is the third of three small paintings that I did using watercolour and ink over a glue and medium base. If you order print to frame yourself, it actually looks quite good with a cream matte board around it. You could mix and match different ones (nrs 1, 2 and 3) with wall art and home decor.

This is the second one of three small paintings that I did using watercolour and ink over a glue and medium base. If you order print to frame yourself, it actually looks quite good with a cream matte board around it. You could mix and match different ones (nrs 1, 2 and 3) with wall art and home decor.

This is the first of three small paintings that I did using watercolour and ink over a glue and medium base. If you order print to frame yourself, it actually looks quite good with a cream matte board around it. You could mix and match different ones (nrs 1, 2 and 3) with wall art and home decor.

If you know, you know. Eighties kids will get this inside joke about the popular girls, their croquet, and their eternal question - what's your damage?

Of all the happiest moments and saddest moments in your life, there is a magic that you got to experience those things at all.

Part of my state flower painting series. Gouache painting of the Texas state flower, the bluebonnet, in the shape of the state of Texas

On a calm day in the Lake District National Park in the UK, there's nothing quite as lovely as spending a bit of time enjoying the wonderful scenery around Blea Tarn. The tarn is a small lake nestled in the mountains and carved out by a long-receded glacier.

Another digital variation of my original abstract Bush Ants on Bark watercolour painting.

Bend over, Heather

This is a pattern I created from an original collage piece created from strips of hand pulled monoprinted paper. When I digitally copied and joined the images into a pattern, I immediately saw a medieval man with his arms outstretched at the top. Then I noticed the different face (with a moustache) in the inverted image at the bottom. I love creating patterns from original works of art - sometimes the results are very surprising. In this case the pattern is superior to the original collage, which was originally just an abstract pattern. I have not altered the original colour of the work.

Watercolor flowers cut out and collage onto a watercolor background.

Dead girl walking