Saturdays Workshop..

Due to cancellations due to illness there was only Helen and Bob yesterday-and instead of doing the advertised abstract workshop I gave them free rein to do whatever they wanted..they chose The Big Poppy' which is done in acrylic and melted wax..They had travelled from Northampton and stayed overnight at http://www.bushfarmbandb.co.uk/ which is run by one of our friends/students Christina..
They chose to do 2 different colours with Helen using the more traditional reds and Bob the lovely 'bordaux ' purple.Helen made a beautiful job of her picture -with lots of texture in the centre..

Bob is adding the melted wax to the centre of his painting--although we started out painting a poppy picture we quickly realised that Bobs looked quite a like an anemone -it was quite stunning! Decisons had to be made on whether to add any silver wax to the centre-or to leave it black..in the end silver was added and it did work well.

Lovely results--the photos do not do the paintings justice--it is the hardest painting to photograph-and you cant see the texture that was created! We will look forward to seeing Bob and Helen again in the future!