''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.