Todays Class

You can see the results from todays ''Poppy Field'' class.

It was the first time that I had tryed out this painting in a full class and I was very surprised at how different they turned out.

Even from the very start when we put the blue sky in , they were all very individual,and by the time we came to do the poppies everyones personality was starting to show through!

It was Jacks very first time painting and he was very surprised at how easy it was, he said afterwards that he really felt that he had achieved something--which he had.He is coming to the next class so he must be happy!

He was a very easy student to teach, he seemed to take in everything I said at each stage and produced a lovely painting.

We varied the paintings a little and added some cornflowers to some of them just to make a little change.

Evonne was quick to add some little flicked out bits to the cornflowers to ,make them look more realistic.Once she added some smaller poppies to the right hand side of her painting to balance it, it was just beautiful.

Jan was very bold with her poppies which turned out beautiful---I think she was a little dubious about them when she first started,but everyone loved them--very impressionistic!

Ive told her to have a look at Google images--poppy paintings.

Sharleen was very keen to learn how not to be not so heavy handed! She has painted at home and thought that the results were ''too heavy handed''. Today she produced the most beautiful subtle poppy painting.The background was blended until very quiet and muted and then she painted the most lovely stylized poppies, a beautiful finished result!

Carol is the flower arranger and she always paints the flowers soooo easily.It comes natural to her-she always knows where to put them without being told!! Because she does flower arranging as a hobby she's one step ahead of the rest of us!

Hayley is Carol's daughter and she was a little more scared of putting the poppies onto the canvas--the first one is always the worst, after putting on the beautiful background it can be hard to put that first blob of red paint and start the poppies!

However the painting turned out lovely--very subtle as are most of Hayleys paintings!