I mean, look at it

I love the shapes, I love the colours. When I’m out for a walk, in the forest or in town, I’m always looking out for it and maybe taking a quick picture.

So when I sat down to paint the other day, and flipped through the photos on my phone for inspiration, I quickly decided to paint some lichen-y shapes.

This was fun as it let me do my favourite parts of wet-on-wet, letting the colours mingle and dry however they would. The limited palette brought it together a bit more than when I just use all the colours (though it’s hard not to! I love all the colours). And I enjoyed painting the wibbly shapes and ferny bits of the lichen.

Today I went on a woodland walk with my eldest and took a few more lichen pictures. So I’m sure more lichen art won’t be far behind.