Highley WI

We had a lovely time on Tuesday evening with the ladies of Highley WI.
We got there in plenty of time and set up the display stands and table.
Im never sure what people are expecting when they are told they are going to see an oil painting demonstration-it always turns out that they are totaly amazed at how laid back the talk and demos are.The paintings take shape so quickly that people cant belive it!
The usual oohhhs and aaaahhhhs and amazing's came thick and fast when the finished paintings were handed round for closer inspection after I had finished!!!
The winner of the draw chose the waterfall painting and i donated the "Summer Day" painting to the WI. They support the "Fast Response" and will use the money raised fromthe painting to help this worthy cause.

Class of Feb 16th

We had a lovely time yesterday in the Oriental Dawn class.We welcomed Mary who would rather be known as 'Pozzy'-her nickname.Her grandson had paid for her to come to the class as a Christmas pressent. Unfortunatly she had terrible trouble with her arms being very painful, and she had a real job with some of the brush moves.I really hope she feel's better soon.However she still managed a lovely painting first time!
Michelle who joined us for the first time really enjoyed herself again--she put in the comments book ''I love it''I love it'' ''I love it''so I think she loves it!

Jack, Yvonne, Carole and Jan who are all quite experienced artists now all produced lovely work too, its interesting to see how they are all developing their own ways of doing things.
Carole bought along her own canvas, slightly smaller than the one we use in class-she has been doing some painting at home and found that she prefers the smaller canvas.

2 places left on this class

I have just 2 places left on the Birch Tree Walk painting class on March 29th.
This painting is done with acrylic paint and encaustic wax. Its suitable for everyone -even first timers.
I have fantastic results with this class subject , as you can see from the photos a little further on in my blog and also on my website www.paintingmyway.co.uk
If you would like to book this class, please do so earlier rather than later, as places are getting snapped up very quickly.

Latest class places

The phone has gone mad today with people booking classes--it looks like I may have to start doing classes on a Sunday as well as a Saturday-just to fit everyone in!
The latest are
Feb 16th---Oriental Dawn--full
Feb 23rd--private encaustic party
March 1st--Snowy Reflections--Full +1
March 8th --African Dream --full +1
March 15th --Summer Day --Full
March 22nd --Winter Wonderland --4 places left--this class is Easter Weekend
March 29th--Birch Tree Walk--2 places left
April 5th --Eternal Dawn--Full
April 15th --Advanced Class-for students who have been to me at least 5 times before
April 19th--Stormy Skies--1 place left
May 3rd--Emerald Woods--2 places left
for more details and pictures of the class subjects please check out ''classes'' on
www.paintingmyway.co.uk

Places Left in Classes

The class for Saturday March 1st is now full---Snowy Reflections
I have had an unexpected cancellation for the African Dream class on Saturday March 8th. So just one place left on this acrylic class.

There are 4 places left for Eternal Dawn on Sat April 5th.

There are just 2 spaces left for the Stormy Skies class on Saturday April 19th and 3 places left for Emerald Woods on Sat May 3rd.
The classes are getting very booked up very quickly

African Dream Class--Full

11year old Oliver who came to the Tropical Summer Day class on Saturday is coming to the African Dream class on Saturday March 8th.

This class is now full.

Getting Ready

We are off to Leominster tomorrow to take down the exhibition of students paintings.

It will be a quicker job than putting them up for sure.!

We have got some of the students coming to help pack everything away, and most people are collecting their paintings from there, so the car wont be as full as this coming home!!!!

We had Sharleens van to take them to Leominster as well as some in our car!

Its been pretty hectic here getting pressies to respective families, last minute shopping in Kidderminster yesterday-it was really quiet there, was able to get round the shops no trouble-it was lovely!!