Winter Wonderland Feb 14th

Painted in oil onto a black canvas Winter Wonderland has had some brilliant results in previous classes.
You will learn to use a variety of brushes and techniques during the class.
4 booked already

Suitable for all ages and abilities check out the website
www.paintingmyway.co.uk

Marden WI

We were over at Marden WI last night to do the painting demo, it was a stormy evening but just as we arrived there was the most beautiful bright rainbow above the hall .For once I managed to get a decent photo of it, you can see its a double one!
It wasn't the biggest group we have ever been to but as usual we were made to feel at home and we had a great laugh all evening.
EVeryone was surprised at the speed in which the 2 paintings were done,in around an hour the two were completed, and we were treated to a lovely cup of tea and a slice of lemon drizzle cake!
Sue won the raffle and she chose the "Summer Day" painting
Most of the ladies want to have a go at the painting at some point in the future, and they were going away to check out which pictures they would like to do.
At the end of the demo, one of the ladies came and asked if she could buy "Poppy Fields" which you can see on the stands behind me.Its for her little granddaughters 4th birthday-her name is Poppy and her nanny thought it would be something for her to treasure for years to come.
I wrote an inscription on the back of the painting for her, and I hope she enjoys her surprise pressie--Her nanny said she is expecting a new dolls pushchair!!
We have been asked to go back next year to do an encaustic evening which I will look forward to.Everyone will be able to have a go at it and create a postcard size painting!

BOOT SALE BARGAINS!

The weather was fine today so we decided to go and have a look at leominster boot sale.I picked up some bargains there! I spoted a lovely paperweight on a stall and asked the price-(Im always after pretty paperweights to use when on the open air craft fairs to hold my flyers down) the lady said its a £1.00 but you have to have all the rest of the matching stuff with it! Its all cut crystal-2 wine glasses,brandy glass,tumbler,plate and 2 bowls as well as the paperweight.Ok so its not a full set , but its all beautifuly engraved with the humming bird and flowers.It has a lovely ring on it when you tap the glass.So I had everything for just a quid!
ALso picked up some charming little crystal animals too, they came complet with a mirror base to sit on.
Also another art book-this time a watercolour one--I might get chance to read it sometime!!

A lovely Day

After breakfast we went to the first boot sale of the season at leominster, picked up some more bargains, including some crayons for use on fabric-will have some fun personalising the aprons used in class with them!
Then back to clean out the stick insects-boy have they grown.I gave Paddy the parrot a good shower with the spray botle while I had it out spraying the sticks, then after calling round at mums to drop off her mothers day pressies, back to cook a beautiful roast beef dinner.
The roses I had for valentines day were about finished so I gently pulled all the petals off and put into some pretty glass dishes.They will continue to dry out in the sunny kitchen windowsill.Then when complety dry I will put some rose scented pot pourri oil on them.A real lasting memento of a great day!

Im now doing all the updating of my sites and catching up on emails!
Also got to send off the applications for some craft fairs coming up this summer.We seem to need more space every year with doing both encaustic demos and oil and acrylic demos too!!!!

St Valentines Day

Well we have had a lovely day-- Bill had some fun trying out the new camera and printer--an amazing bargain off hot deals!! Just £55 for the 2!!! Its over £300 on Amazon.
Just the job to print off pics of the students on the day of the class if they want one!!
I had some beautiful red roses and a romantic CD for St Valentines Day. We went out for a lovely romantic 3 course meal tonight at the Bull Ring Tavern. Couldnt fault it--we have been there every week for their steak night special-so knew it would be good!!!
I bought my cheese home in a doggy bag as I couldnt manage to eat it all--very generous portions--it comes very highly recommended by us!
Back on the diet tomorrow!!!!!!

Todays Class

At last Ive got round to updating the latest news!

As you can see, we had some beautiful results in todays "Tropical Summer Day" Class.

I had 3 new students today-Pauline and her hubby Chris who I met what seems ages ago-and Oliver aged 11 who I had met even longer before that!

Jan who is now an old hand at the game also joined us!

Sue and her son Andrew had to cancel at the last minute.We will see them at some future classes.

Pauline and Chris were both nervous about coming today-they both admitted that they thought they would stand out like sore thumbs because they wouldn't be able to 'do it'

however they both settled down quickly when they realised that it really was as easy as I had told them.Neither of them had ever painted before, and they were delighted with their paintings at the end of the class!!

Oliver had no such nerves--children often don't-they don't have the same fear that adults get, if I say we will bash the canvas with this brush they just do that-the same with the tickling brush!!!

He wasn't scared of using the colour either-his painting was bold and bright-he even added some coconuts to his tree's at the end!! He wants to come again to do another painting, and we will be seeing him when he has his encaustic birthday party in February.

Jan was being very subtle today, her painting was very gentle and quiet.

Everyone was able to have a practise run doing the palm tree's on the canvas paper before commiting themselves to their own canvas-it was interesting to see how they all did their trees!!

Pauline and Chris have booked to do the Birch Tree Walk on the 29th March.So we will see them then!

Foxgloves

I have completed the second in my "Foxgloves" series. This time on 3 Loxley Gold canvas each measuring 10in x 24in.

The photographs don't do this art work justice.Its much more vibrant in real life.!!

I have included a close up of one of the canvas here.

I have painted all the sides and they all have a lot of detail on them.They need to be hung around 2in apart in order to see this detail properly.

They are very effective, the foxgloves in the foreground really jump out against the blurry background..

This art work will be ready to post in time for St Valentines Day.

The price of this work is £350 including special delivery in the UK.

If you are outside UK please get in touch,

please note that this artwork is copyrighted and logged with www.protectmywork.com