Winter Wonderand Workshop Sept 3rd

We had everything set up on time today--the room was full-I was expecting 9 students...I told everyone to get their brushes at the ready when Hilary said "I don't seem to have an easel or anything!" A quick head count--and I realised that we had 10 students instead of 9! Not sure how that happened but I hadn't got Debra in my book! Anyway we soon had another canvas prepared and we always take along a few extra boxes of brushes so we weren't too late starting in the end!

Howard is sat back contemplating his sky so far...everyone enjoyed using the bashing and tickling brushes-and were amazed at just how different every ones paintings were right from the start! Working on the black canvas is great fun and is a great confidence builder...

we met Vanessa and her mum at Welland show and they travelled quite a way to be with us today..mum went out to explore Ludlow while we were painting and ended up at The Ludlow Food Centre where she had a lovely time by the sounds of it.

We met Roy when I did the demo for the Doddington Friendship Club a few weeks ago.He made a great job of his painting--the angle of the snow wasn't quite right at first but was easily sorted and Roy was much happier  when after a few strokes of the brush his snow wasn't quite so steep!

We met Hilary at Llanidloes a while back when I did the demo there for the WI--she bought along hubby Howard with her.We will be seeing the pair of them for the Birch tree workshop--either in Ludlow or Llandidloes!

Julie came along with Lewis-her 12 year old nephew---you would never believe she was a first timer...she seemed  very confident

We welcomed back Margarita again--her 6th time-and she received her artist brooch today.She has tried,oils,acrylics, acrylic and oil, white canvas and now black ones--and says she has loved all of them!

Nicky had a gift voucher as a pressie--her painting tuned out really soft and had a slightly out of focus feel to it..very pretty!

Debra adding the final snow before putting in the trees and fences.

Norma made a lovely job-she followed my directions to the letter..and her finished painting had quite a mystical feel to it.

12 year old Lewis was very bold with his brushes..he got the hang of the tickling brush really quickly and .we had a cracking tree from him at the end--real character!

The Happy Artists with their finished masterpieces!

Always interesting to see just how different the artists interpret each step of the painting..

Lovely results everyone!