Big Poppy Workshop results..

Well flu, upset tummies and injuries took its toll on some of the students due to come yesterday...so we were down to just the 3 of them.Diane and mum Liz came down from Derby for their 3rd time..Diane chose some lovely bold colours for her paintings,reds,purples and a beautiful turquoise too..

Lyndsey chose shades of reds for hers,,

Liz loved working on this painting,,,she got the hang of blending the colours really easily.

The fun part is adding the melted wax-what fun we had doing that!

Diane used black and silver wax, it worked really well- she managed to be really random with it which can be quite hard to do!

It makes such a huge difference when the wax is added...

The camera does not show the texture that has been created in the paintings at all well..such a shame...they are always hard to photograph..

Beautiful results ladies! Well Done..

''Mellow Moods'' workshop Jan 22nd

It was my biggest workshop to date-we had 17 students in----9 first timers and the 

others between once and 7 times

Angela on left and Anne- both first time with me--Anne was really quite nervous--but soon realised there was nothing to worry about!

It was lovely to see Caroline back -she bought her mum Mary a gift voucher for Christmas so she joined her in the class.

Mary painting in her trees

Jaye had got the nickname of Messy in previous classes--as she has been covered in paint in the past 2 ---however she kept herself very clean yesterday!

Angela made a beautiful job of her trees

It was lovely to see Suzanne again, its been a while since she came to class-but she got right back into it straight away .

Tom came along with Janet and her family-Jaye, Lisa and Christina

Christina asked if |I had had any Valium that morning as she was sure I would need them as she would be no good at painting as she couldn't even draw stick men! I assured her I wouldn't need any and we had a laugh all day long with them all--Christina loved it-and wants to know when she can come again!

Lisa is making a great job here of her background

Little Esme is only 9 and came along with her dad Andrew fr the first time.Her trees were really bold and she got used to putting the right amount of paint on the brush quickly.

I think Andrew surprised himself yesterday--he had never painted before-but he made a beautiful job of his trees and seemed to find it all very easy. His comment in my book at the end--" I Didn't Know I Had It In Me!"

Cristine has been once before to paint the sunflowers--she is painting 4 pictures with me and has bought the matching greetings cads as all the pictures are for presents.She loves her sessions with me.Everyone agreed yesterday-while they are painting they think of nothing else--all their worries/problems are left outside the door.

Lorna loved her first class with me so much she bought along her Mum and Angela yesterday!

Another student we hadn't seen for a while was Rhada--its been a year since we saw her--she missed he train from Birmingham yesterday so her hubby drove her over. We had a lovely pressie of a bottle of wine from her which we will enjoy with our lunch today-Cheers Rhada!

Anne and Pat are friends of Karen-another friend/student. They were supposed to come earlier in the year but the weather stopped that! Both were completely nervous--but settled down quickly and produced some beautiful paintings--they are back next month to do Yesterday.

Lots of giggles all day from this bunch! Tom -on the end managed to spill his acrylic paint over his oil palette before we started-so that started them all off ! Its usualy Jaye who makes a mess!

Caroline used some red to make her painting more Autumnal and it worked lovely.

Its amazing just how the paintings change so quickly once the colour goes on

I loved Angela's painting with just the yellow ochre-but she added the green as well after.

Lovely and bold!

I couldnt get them all in one photo-so did them in 2 lots--Val isnt in the pictures as she needed to stay seated inside--it was freezing cold !

What a wide variety of paintings--and it was so lovely was always to see peoples self confidence grow as the class went on--they soon start making desions on their own about where to put things and what colour to use--I had a lovely time with them all.