A Palette With A Difference!!!

we called on Bills sister this morning and she happened to mention that when she and her daughter Mary-Jane called at the local garden centre the other day they spotted in the sale section a garden ornament with a painting palette on it.
As its only a minutes drive from her home we called there on our way home and to my surprise it was still there! I loved it.
It was reduced from £29 down to just £9 so it was an absolute bargain!
A beautiful painted Wellington boot with toadstools and flowers and a painting palette complete with brushes and paint brushes. There are 2 places to put plants on it.
Its too nice to put outside so for now its in our front room with a couple of house plants on it.
What a good job Maureen mentioned it!

New Commission

I recived an email late last night from Bet who wants to commission a Summer Day painting.
She has told me that it is her first time of commissioning a painting, so I have explained to Bet how I work.
I photograph and email each stage of the painting to the client for approval, before going onto the next stage-this way the client is in complete control of the finished picture, Ican add or take away anything they dont like or want in the painting.

She particualy like the 9th version of it that has already been sold, so I set to work tonight, feeling very energetic after todays great Reiki session.
I have done a lot of the background stuff.Lots of building up in the sky and the sea.
I have put several layers of clouds into it, each layer fluffed up and blended so there are no hard edges.
Next came the sea, using both a beautiful seagreen and the same blue as in the sky, again building up the layers of colour until Im happy with it.
The first layer of sandy beach colours were applyed before putting my brushes into a plastic bag and wrapped up tightly ready for tomorrows session.
I dont bother to clean my brushes when Im going to be using them the next day-as long as they are wrapped up they will be fine and they wont dry out and spoil.
It has been known for them to be in a bag for 3 or 4 days after a class--when Ive been busy and forgotten about them!!! They have always been ok!!

new pics for jan!!!!!!

Here are two of my most recent pics of the sky/sunsets/sunrises.I am very pleased with the results-the first was taken on the way to leominster and the second taken earlier that day out of the bedroom window.

I have loads more to put on my blog, the time has just flown, been doing a bit more to the commission, and getting on with putting the christmas tree up etc.

Will get back to norml posting tomorrow with luck!!!!!

Brushes and Palette Knives

I have managed to source some very good script liner brushes to sell at the classes, they are quite difficult to get hold of in this area.I am going to replace the ones that I use in the classes too. The old ones are still in quite good nick but I will keep them for the acrylic classes.The new ones will retail for just £3-50 which is a real bargain. I have also had to replenish my stock of palette knives--they sell out as fast as I get them in -they will still retail for £4-50
I hope the postal strikes wont hold up their delivery too much!