No Market :-(

Well poor Bills not very well--his cold has turned to a chest infection so we will not be venturing out to the market tomorrow-- the weather forcast is not good either--its snowing as I type--and is supposed to snow much more tomorrow. So thats it as far as the market goes until next March/April-depending on the weather!
Bills off for X Rays on his knee and hips on Thursday---they have been giving him some gip lately-so between that and his chest he's not been great.
 It will be good to have a rest--the new years classes will soon be here,

Serenity workshop Nov 27th

 Today's group all knew each other as Sarah who had a private family class a short while ago at her home had organised it! It was a mixture of her family and friends !
All ages from Hannah who is 7 years old.......the results right from the word go were great--some lovely skies were created in a short time.Trish mentioned when she came in  that her art teacher at school had told her she was useless at art--and was pretty convinced that she couldn't paint-- Id love that 'art teacher' to see just what Trish achieved in just 4 hours today-and so would Trish!
The painting took shape very quickly -and we managed to finish on time-everyone was amazed at the results--some bold some more delicate but all very good-we had lots of laughs-especially at the amount of paint that some students managed to get on themselves-mentioning no names( Donna!) Amber and Carris were not far behind you!

Lovely Time at Button Oak Art Club

We had a lovely time at Button Oak art club today--not the biggest we have ever been to but certainly one of the keenest!

They had some problems with the boiler after we arrived but to be honest it didn't effect me-as I was busy painting the 2 pictures!
 Lots of questions throughout the demo and most of the club want me to return and do a workshop at their village hall where we were today.
 So I have to have a look at my diary and see when we can come to an arrangement-am really looking forward to going back and meeting everyone again--Janice and Catherine won the paintings-- everyone seemed to be amazed at the Winter Wonderland one and how it came about using transparent paint on the black background!

March 12th "Mystical Moon" acrylic

We are painting Mystical Moon on March 12th--you will use acrylics and a variety of brushes and techniques--the painting will be dry for you to take home.
You will have a choice of colours  purples,blues and greys

for more details check out the website
www.paintingmyway.co.uk

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Big Huggles For Dave and Lin x

One of dear friends Dave is off to hospital tomorrow for a big operation--we will be thinking of both him and Lin-- and sending lots of positive thoughts and huggles to them both.
Looking forward to that meal at the pub you told us about in a few weeks time both !!

xxx

TODAYS CLASS-BIRCH TREES

Just a quickie for now-- will upload rest of paintings tomorrow after we get back from market!
Just woke up at the computer after falling asleep sorting photos of today out.
We had great fun today- and had a notification tonight to say that Birch Tree Pool has sold off my website--like the big one done by students today only in the soft sage green colours.
Will do more updating tomorrow--off to bed for me now-early start in the morning!

March 6th 2010 ''Poppy Field''

Poppy Fields is a bright cheerful painting suitable for all abilities-painted in oils-check out the website for more details
www.paintingmyway.co.uk

Just Giving--many thanks to you all!

What a wonderful bunch of people I know ---thank you all for all your help in this- especially Lin, Sandi and Lin--as you are all aware-a group of us have created a beautiful painting called Boob-tiful which is currently for sale on Ebay (£170) at moment. It finishes tomorrow night at 10.45pm.


One of the ladies who helped to create the painting is known as DaisyBev on the forum--she has set up a'' just giving ''page so people can donate as much as they are able to the Breakthrough Breast cancer charity.
Even if you just donate just a £1 it will help the charity-there are over 260 members of Boob-tiful fan club on Facebook so we should be able to raise lots of money!
Even if you are not a member of facebook you can still donate-I have posted the link below.


--http://www.justgiving.com/Daisybev-Boob-tiful/

We are Back!

Just a quickie for now-we had a cracking weekend sold 8 paintings between ny website, Ludlow Art Society exhibition and Onslow Park so a very happy bunny indeed!
Im busy promoting the Boob-tiful painting in all sorts of ways-the cards of it are done (thanks Lin)-will put more details here later-got lots of phone calls to make!

BOOB-TIFUL-on EBAY

I have spent most of the day getting in touch with newspapers and other sources to get the most publicity for the paintng created last weekend for Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research.
My friend Lin is printing some cards to sell , and I have approached 2 local printers who will be doing some copies of the painting.
I am very grateful for all the help in promoting this project-if you go on any forum etc please tell them about this-breast cancer affects a lot of people-most people will know someone who is affected by this awful illness.
The painting is now for sale on ebay the number is 250488697145
you copy and paste it into Ebay you will be able to see its progress.
Please let as many people as possible know about this fund raising painting so w ecan get the best price possible for it.
many thanks are going to Linpix Images , Hereford,
The Ink Spot Printers, 22 Coder Road, Ludlow sy81xe
One Stop Print Shop, 4 Angel Court, Ludlow,sy81ng
for their support in printing images of " Boob-tiful"

Pixierockets Birthday Bash

Well we are back from the weekends celebrations at the Cottage of Content--Pixierocket was celebrating her birthday and invited people who regularly contribute on the UK Campsite forum along to celebrate with her.
Some of us dressed as fairies-I just had some pretty wings!
We had a wonderful time meeting up with everyone we speak to but had never met in real life!
As Lynne (pixierocket) has suffered with breast cancer herself she organised a raffle to raise some money for that cause-I donated 2 paintings for that as well.
Then I had the idea of doing a boob painting--after sorting it out with Lynne, we took along the acrylic paints and a 36in x 14in canvas.
I had expected everyone to go into the caravan one at a time and paint them selves,but it didnt turn out like that!
It turned into the most surreal night Ive ever had in my life!
As the word got round as to what we were planning the ladies were coming by and saying they wanted to be part of it-so as the evening progressed there was a stream of ladies queuing up in my little caravan with tops up and a boob in hand waiting to paint or be painted as the case may be!
It seemed no-one was shy--the general comments were that ''we have all got em''
Several of the ladies had been affected by breast cancer, one had had reconstructive surgery after the removal of her breast and she chose to use that boob to paint with-as did Lynne-who painted her scars in a different colour to the rest-so it was a very emotional thing as well as fun. The good thing was the amount of young girls who understood why it was being done and wanted to take part in it.Hopefully they will continue to be 'breast aware ''as they grow up.
The painting will be going onto Ebay shortly to rasie money for Breast Cancer reasearch, after I get as much publicity as I can first--the group photo above is of all the artists who helped to create the masterpiece-

We had a brilliant time, it was such fun to meet up with everyone- the 3 girls from the tent next door are coing down for a class sometime in the near future so it will be great to meet up with them again!
Im off to unpack the cravan now and get everything ready for next weekends trip to Onslow Park.