Great Evening

Lin and Dave came over to bring the latest cards for me that Lin has created from my paintings.
They sell like hot cakes thanks to Lins artistic eye-she takes part of my paintings and makes them in to cards for me.Im sure I will be ordering some more shortly after we have been on the market this Sunday!
It seems like we have know Lin and Dave forever-we just get on so well-we all have the same sense of humour and think along the same lines-funny to think we only met a few months ago at Shobdon Food and Drink Festival!
We all went up for a meal at The Squirrel tonight and we had a lovely time-lots of laughs and the time---- it just flew by !

YESTERDAYS CLASS-FOXGLOVES

We had 3 new students in class yesterday--Jan, Gay and Rachel all came along for the first time.Gay and Jan were complete first time painters, while Rachel had attended one oil class in Kidderminster before.






















from left to right-Chris, Gay (1st), Pauline,Jan(1st), and Rachel (1st).
As you can see we had some great results as usual-though Pauline said it was the hardest one yet!
Chris sailed through the class and his painting was absolutely superb as you can see here.
Jan was a bit worried she might find it hard as she has a few health problems, but she managed it and her first painting was beautiful.
We had a wide variety of shapes and sized foxgloves--this painting seemed to allow peoples personality's to come more than usual!
Its always interesting for me to stand back and watch how people tackle the painting after seeing me do my bit.
Rachel is coming next week with her 7 year old grandaughter and Jan is coming along to do the African Dream painting.
Im really looking forward to seeing everyone again!

Todays Market

The sun was shining and everyone was in a happy mood when we arrived to set up the market stall today! We were in a different place than usual because the annual May Fair was arriving in town this afternoon, so we had to be off the square for 3.30pm. A lot of the stalls had already been taken down to make room.
I hung to big paintings on the end of the stall as it was a lovely dry day and the "By The Light " painting caught every ones eye-the metallic paint on the water caught the sun and the effect was lovely!
We had noticed the delivery van on the square earlier and recognised the driver as the one who used to deliver my canvases-he came over and had a closer look at it--he loved it-am waiting to hear off him if hes going to buy it-so fingers crossed!
Had a lovely day all in all-- its certainly busier than the monthly thursday craft market. We are not going to do those anymore -we are finding this one a lot better.
We are doing it again on Monday at Dilwyn Show-havent been there before but have been told its a good one to do so we are looking forward to it. Hope the weather is as nice as today!