Cats In TheTree workshop

First time for this subject,,,acrylic on a chunky 12in x 24in canvas.  Alan came with Karen all the way from Mansfield-he has not painted since he was at school and was a little apprehensive to say the least! However he took to it like a duck to water and had no problem doing a beautiful sunset background..

Jo was doing her 10th painting..as usual she had us in fits of laughter the whole time! She wanted to match up the painting for another one she had previously painted for her mother in law--Mystical Moon...she made a cracking job of it! She bought along her friend for the first time Helena....

Karen used the shades of blues and purples for her painting--she also had us in fits of laughter---and we all agreed we would like to be a fly on the wall when Karen or Jo go to Morrison's supermarket--they had us in tears of laughter--funny how they had both had 'experiences' in Morrison's at either end of the country!  It was a bitter sweet day for Karen and us..she has always brought along her dear  mum Sandra with her in the past-and stayed in a hotel with her and made a lovely weekend break as Mum had cancer..we always had a lot of fun with her and she loved her painting sessions...she sadly passed away in Dec bless her...we were very sad to hear the news from Karen..but what wonderful memories she has of her time down in Ludlow and of course she has the paintings she did too.. I gave Karen a Serenity painting to take home with her to donate to the hospice who looked after her so well..

all hard at work...

Helena was painting for the first time with me..she also chose the blues and touch of purple for her painting-loved her tree--its funny how everyone has their own style of doing trees and branches--its almost like their signature--all as individual as they are..

Jenny has been painting with me countless times now....its her art therapy bless her...She chose a beautiful combination of colours for her painting and added 2 cats the same as her sons into it..

say one for me while you are down there girls! You will notice we have a new floor in the room we do the workshops in--so we have bought some rugs from Ikea to put down last week for the first time---they were very slippy on the floor so this week we bought some non-stick backing and glued it to the back of them--it worked well--so everyone is safe now! A few of them were like Bambi on Ice last week-scared me to death!

Karen getting a pic of Alan halfway through....

I loved Jenny's finished painting--the bunnies have real character!

Helena painting is just beautiful--there are some beautiful twinkly stars in the sky but they are not showing in the photo much! Looking forward to seeing her and Jo in May for the Big Poppy workshop!

I loved Jo's picture--no cats in the tree but some bunnies--again the twinkly stars are not showing up much!

Alan excelled himself--you have to be pretty brave to add the cat in the tree to be fair---and he did it just great-and also the cute family of bunnies--Karen said its going to be hung in the office in pride of place!

Karen's painting turned out just great-love the tree-it has mystical feel about it--

well done everyone---beautiful results--all so individual!