Llanidloes WI

We had a long drive last night after being on the market! We drove 58 miles to Llanidloes WI to give a talk/demo to the ladies there! Elaine who has been some of the workshops arranged it and it was lovely to see her and Dianne again.There were all sorts of lovely niceties to eat--scones with clotted cream and jam and Bills favorite of all time--lemon drizzle cake! We arrived at 7pm and quickly got set up with  lots of help unloading the car from the ladies and Elaine's hubby! We had a display of paintings on the stands and also 2 large tables filled with my greetings cards and small paintings.

Its wasn't the biggest group I have ever done --but it was certainly one of the nicest! We had lots of laughs during the demo--and when I had finished there were gasps of amazement when the paintings were passed round--they couldn't believe the detail I had in there!

It was nice to have the questions from some of the ladies of the local art group--it was quite unlike anything they has seen before....one thing that surprised them all was the lack of smell! Most folk seem to think that oils will be smelly and messy.I explained that the oil paints themselves have no smell and the turps I use is low odour so nothing to worry about!We are arranging to go over to the room in Nov to do a workshop---as most of the ladies wanted to have a go--we will charge a little extra a head to cover the travel --the room is ideal being well lit and having parking so we will look forward to seeing the ladies again!

the 2 paintings I did for the ladies...

Elaine and her hubby fell in love with this Winter Wonderland painting--and it went home with them! I must get cracking and do another one as an example for the workshops!

this little painting also went to a new home with one of the ladies as well!