Mushrooms

Someone kindly gave me some very old paper and an old notebook. I liked the effect of the watercolour paints on the dry paper, so I painted some mushrooms.

Some of them were painted from life. some from photos and some from my head.

 

Camera Obscura

In April I turned the kitchen into a camera obscura. The whole room was filled with the image of the outside world, but the camera on my phone found it too difficult to capture. 

I attached a weak lens to the aperture which produced a clear image at about a metre away.

The  aperture was on a south facing window, which meant that the glare from the sun affected the clarity of the image. Next time I'll use a north facing window and hope that the spectacular sight of the room filled with the image will be light enough to capture on camera.