Saturday, April 30, 2011

Poppies Galore--workshop April 30th

Today was a new subject--a contemporary/impressionist poppy painting with a lovely abstract background using acrylic paint...it gave a lot of scope to everyone to do their 'own thing'
Pauline has gained so much confidence over the time she and Chris have been coming to the workshops--she was almost too scared to put paint onto the canvas in the early days--now she has come into her own and is getting bolder and more confident each time she comes!
Chris has always been pretty confident--
We met Ted on Wednesday while on the market--he was on holiday here from Kent--he has tried watercolour in the past but wanted to have a go at acrylics---he is going to check out the website for an oil workshop and come and try that next time...
Lizzie was with us for the first time-she came along with Lynda who came for the first time last year to paint Stormy Poppies..
I loved the subtle feel of Lynda's background---its amazing just how different they all turn out using the same paint!
Karen's painting turned out just great--there was a choice of using red or mauve paint for the flowers--and it was interesting to see how different they all were..
Maureen is in her element when painting -hard to believe she only started in September! She now paint pictures for all of her family as presents and has become a very competent artist!
Karen bought me a belated birthday pressie--although she had already spoiled me rotten with gifts at the time as well--it really made me laugh!
lovely vibrant,colourful results from everyone!
just had to get a photo of Lizzies lovely nails--she did them herself----what a great job she made! She must have loads of patience to do that!

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