Rose. 4.5ins x 6ins, Oil on Board.

This is a rose I saw in Cathays Park, Cardiff, back towards the end of the summer. Of course all the roses are gone now, so what better time to paint one. :)

Autumn at Gorsedd Gardens Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins

This is another little painting of Gorsedd Gardens (The small park by the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff).

Tree at Gorsedd Gardens. Oil on Board 6ins x 4.5ins

Gorsedd Gardens is a little park in front of the National Museum of Wales which is not far from where I live. Actually I didn't even know it was called Gorsedd Gardens until I looked it up on Google Maps and researched it on the Internet and I would doubt many local people would know it's name. However although it is only a small park and perhaps taken for granted in some ways ironically it has more foot traffic than any other park in Cardiff. It also has it's own little stone circle which is now in a little round fenced off part and is minus it's alter, since this was a magnet for drunken prancing LOL as one Website puts it. The little shed in the painting seems to be a little hotdog ice cream stall.

Reading in the Park. 6ins x 4.5ins Oil on Board

I saw this woman reading in the park back in the summer. I don't know what she was reading but it was obviously quite a good book she didn't notice me at all.

Actually I've never been big on reading outdoors myself, I often find the white paper hurts my eyes in the sun, I get distracted by something, or I feel I should be doing something else, so my attention span outdoors is fairly short. Actually I also took a lot of photographs of flowers on the same day as I saw this woman reading and wondered whether I had been a honey bee in a former life. :)