Big Poppy Workshop

Well what a day we had on Saturday...I was expecting 11 and 16 turned up...must sack the secretary!!! Any way we always have extra brushes ,canvas etc on the van so it was OK! This workshop always takes a bit longer than the usual 4 hours mainly because of the drying times of the mediums and the paint..its amazing just how the paintings change through the workshop,,

as you can see we had a wide variety of colours...its one of those paintings that seems to work in whatever colour people choose..

love the purple and turquoise shades that Fregia did...

Subodh chose some beautiful yellow and oranges for his painting....it was really bright and vibrant

Sri chose the more tradition red and black

Carol had a bigger ,chunkier canvas to use...

starting to add the melted wax here...

its a good job we have a big room to use!

adding texture with the wax and irons..

I loved Subodh's finished painting...none of the photographs do these paintings justice,,the texture and variations in colour just do not show up..

Sybils's painting really came to life when she added the silver wax middle..

you can a bit more of the detail in Carol's picture here..

Abbie,Carol and Tony

Cathy and Fregia

John, Sybila and Ann

Connie and Carol -- Subodh  is holding  camera shy Sri's painting too!! 

Christine ,Shirley and Margret

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

July 4th " Birch Trees"

Birch Trees is suitable for all ages and abilities-it is painted using a variety of brushes and acrylic paints.Its great fun to do and fantastic results every time.

If you are interested in joining this class please get in touch with me via the website

www.paintingmyway.co.uk

Anthea's Poppys

Anthea was in for a big surprise today when her friend Ally bought her to my home. She had no idea what was in store! Then she spotted the 2 easels and canvas set up ready for her--
Straight away she said ''surely you don't think I can paint anything like that!?''
After convincing her that she could , we settled down to paint-with some interruptions from Jake who had us all in fits of laughter from time to time.
Anthea's painting took shape very quickly--and after just over 2 hours and 2 cups of coffee she was finished!
She was well chuffed with her results.

New Date For ----Summer Day -Sep 27th

Back again by popular demand "Summer Day" will be the workshop subject for Sat Sep 27th.

There are 4 places left for this popular subject.

This one will definatley be booked up quickly-its one of my most popular paintings in Painting My Way workshops--easy to see why though!

If you want to join this class-please get in touch with me via the website http://www.paintingmyway.co.uk/

Annabels Class

It was a special day for one lucky little girl.

Annabel (on right) celebrated her 12th birthday today. Annabel came along with her friend Beth and her mum Jane for a birthday treat.

Her mum Jane has been to 6 of my classes before and today she received her brooch I award to advanced students.

The girls had looked at the websites and chosen a combination of several paintings that they fancied doing.

They chose a seascape but in warm colurs of yellow ,oranges and reds.

Everyone was surprised at how quickly the paintings developed, and how different they were to each other.The girls were very good at at using the knife for the waves,and needed very little help with it.

The day went well with loads of intervals to listen to what Jake was coming out with--everyone was creased with laughter at him!

We put the birds outside when the weather is good as the sunshine is good for their health--all the neighbours love him and come outside to chat to him!

Today we had the full works off him he didnt shut up all day--seagulls, hellos, good boys, I loves Becki, I loves Bill , Jakes a clever boy,wolf whistles and now he has got the Clint Eastwood-the good , the bad and the ugly theme off perfectly! He started laughing like Jane at one stage which amused everyone!

After we had finished the paintings I got out the encaustic art stuff for everyone to have a go.

They loved it--what Annabel didn't know at the time but will do by the time she reads this-is that her very kind mum had bought all of the equipment off me in order to carry on doing it at home as a surprise present!

She really is a very lucky girl to have a mum like Jane!

I know they will have hours of fun with it.

They went home with something else totaly unexpected--some baby stick inscects and the tank we used to keep ours in!

We gave ours to my sister and they have been busy breeding--so she had some spare ones.Annabel is going to share them with her friend Beth.

I also printed off some photos of them all to take with them as a memento of their day with me!

Hopefully we will be seeing Jane next week for the Birch Tree Class.

Bills Garden Now

We had a lovely afternoon in Hereford today. Bill had some Wyevale Garden Centre gift vouchers left over from his birthday and hes been hankering for a giant rhubarb plant for the garden for ages. He filled in the small pond with compost a while ago when he was doing the second level of the garden, this has created the perfect environment for this plant. It likes a boggy setting.

The leaves can grow up to 10 feet across, so it will be interesting to see how it does here!

I also got a beautiful black and white striped reed that will grow in the same place.

On the way out we spotted some beautiful clay pots with Alpine plants growing out of them.

The pots were beautifully aged with moss and algae growing on them--couldn't resist getting 3 -especially as they were reduced!

The 2 tall ones will sit on the steps and the one in the round bowl will look lovely on the table on the bottom level.

We had bought some plants at the craft fair yesterday, I wanted something that would compliment the beautiful blue flowering plant (no idea what its called) and found a lovely pink flower with dark red foliage-it looks lovely against the light gravel.

We have also bought some fun items like the digging dog statue and the happy face planter from the boot sales. Its taken a while but its all been worth it.

We were looking forward to having a BBQ this weekend but the weather forcast is not promising, so we will have to see what happens!

Recognised this face!

When I was loading the pic of today's craft fair onto the blog-I noticed some pics of last years event and I instantly recognised this little face--Zac used exactly the same colours to do his encaustic painting as he did last year--yellow and red must be his favorite colours!

Shobdon Food And Drink Festival

Well the weather held out today and it was a lovely day-nice and sunny and not too hot in the craft marquee-pictured are the little stars of today--I forgot to bring the piece of paper home with all of their names on but I'm sure they will all recognise themselves!

The encaustic art was very very popular with young and old alike and we had a lot of interesting pictures-including some angel fish and a standard poodle!

I'm sorry I didn't get the pics on here before but the computer played up --had a big black square in corner of screen and couldnt get on to put pics on! (I didn't fall asleep like Bill told everyone I might!)

Sunshine Series

I am painting a new series of paintings at the moment--its going to be called my "Sunshine Collection" All of the paintings will follow a theme of bright, warm sunshine colours, warm yellow,reds,and oranges. They will brighten up any wall you care to hang them! If you have an idea for a painting in these theme, please get in touch and I will create what you have in mind.

''I Stand Alone'' is the first in this series. The silhouette of a solitary tree, which is reflected into the shimmering water. The water has been painted using a special shimmering paint in gold and red-its transparent but adds a beautiful finish.

Keep a look out for more in this series in the near future.

The price of this painting is £180 including P+P in UK please get in touch via http://www.dianetheartist.com