THE BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK! Halloween is just around the corner so it must be time to create some new additions for my Boo Beastie collections. I just adore how these turned out and how much people love them. Boo Beasties are the cutest damned Halloween decorations out there! This years collection included a few new faces - the dia de los Muertos girls, the trick or treating ghost girls, Mrs Frankie joins her hubby, … Continue reading BOO BEASTIES ARE BACK!
P R E O R D E R S N O W O P E N Pre orders are now open for the 2022 LilliBean Designs Art Calendar! Each month features a print of an original art work by LilliBean Designs all of which are brand new and have never been in a previous calendar. This years calendar will feature paintings from my art journalling practice, from my water colour play, from the minis that … Continue reading 2022 Art Calendar
Today I am share the third of 5 paintings created on wooden disks. Last year I bought five large round wooden disks from our local hardware shop. At the time I didn't really have a plan, but I was also slightly enamoured with wreaths, and starting to follow the moon phases. Earlier this year I found these disks hiding behind some canvases and decided it was time to create something with them. I have already … Continue reading WANDERING STAR
This painting seemed to take months. Actually it did take months! Each time I worked on it, I would take infinitesimally small steps forward, and end the session feeling frustrated and lost. But I think the end result was worth it. This is the second of my wooden disk paintings - the first being the CRYSTAL WREATH G I L D E D C A G E angel, why do you hide in your gilded cage … Continue reading GILDED CAGE
It's was perfectly cold and miserable mid winters day when I wrote this, but I love this time of year. Against the back drop of heavy grey skies everything seems much more vibrant and alive with colour. I find myself constantly stopping on my walks trying to capture the vibrancy and darkness with my phone’s camera, only to find myself disappointed with the results. (Although this could definitely be due to user error!) I used to … Continue reading Tiny Little Things + Joy
JULY 2021 UPDATE. 2021 saw the addition of an art journalling practice to my weekly rituals. I have written about it in depth here . Today I want to share some more of the journal pages I have been creating lately. Some of which have inspired new larger paintings. I am so happy I had added this practice before covid and lockdowns began again, with toilet paper again being rationed and with so many plans and … Continue reading ART JOURNALLING [JULY UPDATE]
Adding a art journalling practice to my day has really helped with my creative ebbs and flows, and I find that often paintings I have made in my art journal are begging to be recreated into larger paintings. Mademoiselle was one of these paintings. Starting as a quick paint and then graduating to the a larger canvas. She spoke to me so much that I had to put aside the painting I was currently working … Continue reading MADEMOISELLE
whim·sy /ˈwɪmzi/ noun 1. playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour 2. a thing that is fanciful or odd. I often talk about how the terrible trio have inspired me to live this creative life, how I want to show them they can be, do and have anything they wish, if they work for it. But LilliBean is also about inviting whimsy into life, inviting whimsy into MY life. It wasn't until recently when … Continue reading Inviting Whimsy into Life
THE EMPRESSES AND ANGELS COLLECTION Selene the moon godddess is the latest in my Empresses and Angels Collection (although since this is the second goddess that I have painted I am thinking of calling it the Empress, Goddess and Angels Collection!) My wee beastie was unintentionally named after two goddesses. In fact one of her names is a derivative of Selene. So when she saw I was painting her next she was naturally beside herself … Continue reading SELENE the Moon Goddess
THE CLOUD SERIES At the beginning of June I shared this digital painting that I created on my iPad on my social media pages. 'Oh Hello Winter' had such an awesome response I decided to create a whole series of small paintings (approx a5 size) based on clouds and maybe branching out to other sky based things! And I love how much these little paintings have made me smile over the last couple of months … Continue reading The Cloud Series
