The black canvas has no spring flowers, they are summer.
The second painting is abstract - I was painting rolling hills with a large Hobbit House, took me ages and then it was ruined. I used a brush with black paint on, thought I had washed it, what a mess.
So the abstract I did with mainly pastel paints - I like using them but no good for leaves.
Both really good Ern and very pretty. Thank you for sharing. Xxxx❤️
Cannot get enough of your flowers!!!
Thank you Sharon. I like painting flowers, and nature, I also do like Scyfy the odd time.
Im really sorry to know your original painting was ruined especially after taking so long over it, but both of these paintings are really nice anyway. Thank you for sharing 😊
Thank you and welcome HH - Yes I was gutted, but I had the black canvas, and an abstract was the best option 
Put the hobbit house in your next painting .BERNARDINE🤩🤩
Lovely paintings Ern. Well done. I like them both. 👍The abstract painting looks very summery with the pretty pastel colours, especially the pink blossom on the trees. 🌸 I also like the way the detail of the flowers 🪻are more highlighted with the black canvas. Sorry your hobbit house was ruined,🛖 hopefully we will get to see another one soon. Thank you for sharing. xx
Thank you issy22 - I wanted to finish the Hobbit, which I will do soon. I like black canvas, they make colours pop. I like some abstract, not hard abstract, but when I can use colour. I used a lot of pastel colour, pastel but still bright, Yes you will soon xx
Yes I was gutted, was near finished, I am normally careful but not this time, I thought of trying to salvage it, but not the same. Yes you def will see it soon. xx
I like both, but particularly the summer flower one. They really stand out against the black. Thank you.
There is something about the painting on the right (the abstract,) that takes me out of myself, to a place that is calming, no wars, no pain; just good vibes!
Me too. Want to walk down the path to the waterside 😊xxx
Well I must admit to being a bit of a philistine when comes impressionist painting but Ern is doing a good job in educating me. 😀
Thank you Donald, personal style matters , like your verse, I believe I could tell if you had wrote a verse I read.-)
Thank you Greenthorn, If only such a place existed in reality.
Thanks again Ern. Especially love the painting on the left for the amount of movement you have in it, particularly the tree crossing the moon. The flowers are so well painted in this one, especially the lovely irises on the left! Am so glad you've made them so large. Really, really enjoyed this one. xx👍👍🌼🌼
Thank you BronchyBronwen - Black Canvas gives more scope to use colour, and moons really show. I like Iris, for some reason first time I painted them. xx
I like them both, especially the irises and that intriguing yellow road leading down to /into?? the sea. xxx
love the black canvas ! X
Thank you Thinkhealthy - I like to paint on black canvas, colours can really pop. x
Lovely and really uplifting with the contrast of cosy night. The Hobbit was not ready for its reveal yet. xx
Thank you Dottie. Hobbit will be revealed soon .xx
I first read in High school . A few years later they gave us Lord of the Rings, epic. xx
Better than the rubbish films now xx
We find ourselves watching films from years ago. So many are being remade and not as good as the originals. Every now and then a new good film comes out but not as regular as years ago. xx
I have You Tube on my bedroom TV and I watch oldies at night, one of my Fav's Elizabeth - Ice Cold in Alex. DVD s Lovejoy, Rumpole ect - Nothing like these anymore. xx
Ah Rumpole of the Old Bailey, Leo McKern and the master John Mortimer. I used to work at the 'Bailey'.
Leo McKern - I watched the box set of Rumpole 4 times, there will be a 5th. John Mortimer. I think he father had something to do with his inspired creation of Rumpole of the Baily. What the Baily really like what we saw with Rumpole?
John Mortimer was a practicing barrister at the Old Bailey - a defence barrister I think. There were certainly some characters around at the time! John Mortimer would certainly be able to recall many stories and trials. I really don't know whether his father had anything to do with the creation of Rumpole character, incidentally a new pub opened up at the Ludgate Hill end of the road, about 66/67 and that was called the Rumboe but the pub opposite the Bailey was the Magpie and Stump, and that always had a cluster of barristers as well as press reporters like Con Coughlan of the Daily Telegraph. Interestingly my boss at the OB was Jimmy Pratt (Taxing Master) and he wrote the TV series of the late 50's and early 60's called Boyd QC ,starring the actor Michael Denison. Jimmy Pratt used a pseudonym, Jack Roffey, and "Boyd" was named after the then Clerk of the Court, Leslie Boyd. There was a great sense of family at the Bailey, before the Civil Service took over under the Lord Chancellors office in 1971. Pre civil service were the good old days: Real gentlemen, ex army officers, people you could trust. Each year there would be a cricket match between the staff and the Judges, though the latter were mostly made up of practicing barristers. The Good Old Days indeed!
Thank you Greenthorne - I really was unaware John Mortimer was a barrister, I thought his dad was and that was his inspitarion. John Mortimer the barrister will have has recall to his cases, more so a defence barrister - Facts he could use to make that series more interesting. I wonder was the "atmosphere " in the real Baily when John Mortimer was a practicing barrister . would have rubbed of inteo the Rumpole series.?
Also did John Mortimer have the Rumpole problem of delayed payment cheque of his legal aid.
Super series which are not made any more,
BTW Did you see the very last feature length episide where he went by sea to the US, where encountered quite unexpected Mr Justice Graves?
Was quite a 'good' swansong episode.
Thanks Ern, I realise I didn't really answer your question. But I'd say "Yes", there was much of the Bailey atmosphere in the Rumpole series. And Leo McKern looked like a barrister! The opposite type was Richard DuCann of Treasury Counsel. Tall, dark haired, handsome and thin. John Mortimer was ax gifted writer of course.
Inspector Morse too. xx
I liked him - I liked him in the Sweeney also with Dennis Waterman., who in turn was in the Minder - Loved all those. xx
We're recently had a re-watch of Morse, and Rumpole, and currently re-watching the Sweeney. There are very few drama series being made these days that have the same watchability as these old series. Almost everything we watch these days is on DVD. I quite like Line of Duty, but they often over-complicate the plots (although to be fair the Sweeney was often guilty of that, too!) xx
love the pictures.
I notice iris’, that was my dear Moms name, so pretty.
Thank you for sharing your paintings.🙂
Hi Ern 🙋♀️thank you for sharing these. Always love your paintings with paths as they make me mentally follow them see where they take me😊. Take care xxx
What a contrast in the two pieces. Amazing as always and really brightened up a very soggy Birmingham day!!!!! Many thanks Ern. Love and hugs. Jan xxx
Love both of these Ern.you're so gd at injections reflection of light xxx
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Your pictures are always a joy, Ern, but I'm sorry about the accident with the Hobbit - I know how infuriating it is when a picture goes wrong! I can sometimes salvage mine, but my medium is very different from yours (mixed media collage) and it's easier to make & embrace mistakes with what I do! But if you weren't happy with it, it's better to start from scratch, and these are lovely in the meantime! Helen xxx
Thank you Helen - Interesting - Acrylic can be good because make a mistake and you can overpaint. One problem - You can gesso and start again, but anything you have made prominent will show in new painting. I used to paint with water colour years ago, nice effects but hard to blend, being wet. Iwill paint a new Hobbit, I can remember what I pained - I used pastel colours also. I was gutted so last minute scramble to do the abstract, xxx
Ern, a portrait painted by Gustav Klimt is going on sale today, and is expected to earn around 30 million euros! I want you to look at the flowers painted on his model's scarf; I certainly see a similarity to yours! Truly! Do have a look at it, and see what you think! It's such a lovely painting, and well worth a look anyway! Have a lovely day! xxx😲😃
Thank you - I think I have the right one " Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" - I am no Gustav Klimt that's for sure. He was a symbolist painter in the 'Art Nouveau movement.
The model - I can't say I can see much in common, but that's my eye - Looking at his flower paintings, i am unsure.
Maybe some atmosphere likeness as I have other similer comments.
Thank you for you thought provoking post BronchyBronwen xx
The joy of an unexpected bunch of flowers
