Painting St Audries Waterfall

Here I am starting the painting of the falls.

I decided to paint it as a night scene to capture the mystical feel the place has.

I had a really enjoyable time painting the picture and everyone likes the finished result!

Childrens Encaustic Parties

After an inquiry today after a mum who I met at the weekend, I am able to announce that I will be available for childrens encaustic art birthday parties.

The children will be supervised and shown how to create beautiful melted wax pictures.
I will also supply a frame for the birthday child to put his/her favorite picture in.
They will be able to make some postcard size pics and also 1 A4 size.
If you are interested in having an encaustic party please get in touch with me.

New Classes

I have been inundated with requests for new classes. I cant fit in any more classes this year so I promise I will get some dates sorted out while I am on the painting holiday at St Audries Bay .
I will ring all of you that have enquired about particular classes and let you know when they will be held, before I advertise the classes on my websites.

Bluebell Woods

This is the latest in my ''almost monochrome collection.
It measures 70 cm x 50cm and is painted in acrylic paint and encaustic wax.
It has had 3 coats of artists quality varnish to protect it.
The price is £120 including P+P in Uk
If you are outside Uk please get in touch
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL MY WORK IS LOGGED AT http://www.protectmywork.com/

Mesmerise

This another of my latest 'manic series' of colourful abstracts.

It is a triptych-each canvas meaures 10 in x24 so in all the art work measures 30in x24in.

My husband Bill called this painting ''Mesmerise'' which I think is a great title for it.

It is painted in oils on deep edge staple free box canvas.

It will be ready to post in approx 3 weeks.

Saturdays Class

We had a fantastic time in last Saturdays class.

Carol, Hayley, Jan and Mandy were as keen as can be to get cracking on ''the birch tree's'''

Jan was 1 st time artist who was a little nervous to begin with but she soon settled down and within minutes was saying what fun it was.

Carol and Hayley are now old hands at this painting lark--this was Carol's 9th picture and Hayleys 6th.

Mandy has been to me once before, but has done a couple of brilliant pictures at home which she showed us photos of.it was a beautiful sunny day and we went outside to flick the paint at the paintings to do the bark on the trees.Everyone managed to get freckles at this stage!

We used the encaustic pen to add detail of pink melted wax afterwards.

Everyone is bringing their paintings back for this Saturdays class for Bill to varnish them.

Jan is also having hers framed into one of our contemporary black frames for her daughters birthday. What a lovely surprise she is going to get when she opens her present!!

Jan and Carol are coming back this Saturday to paint Stormy Skies.

Orange

I was without any internet connection all day yesterday, until late last night--very annoying-my orange live box had gone wrong--will update when I get back on Monday night now--Bill left early to go and fetch my friend who is pet sitting-her hubby needs the car this weekend.

Paddy and Sparky will be spoiled rotten again this weekend!

Who Wanted Mosaic Tiles!!

I didnt realise when I chose the tiles for the kitchen walls, just how much work was involved in grouting them! 2 days Ive been at it, but what a difference its made, the whole lot looks much lighter than before, I will take some more pics tomorrow so you can see the difference.

I decided to tile behind the dishwasher and the cooker, or rather I wanted Bill to tile behind the dishwasher and cooker, so this has made more work for him-hes very patient with me bless him!

Exhibition

In December I am holding my 2nd solo exhibition at Leominster Library this year,

along side it will be my students work produced in the classes-everyone is looking forward to it and it will be interesting for people to see the difference in everyones work-even when produced in the same class!!

Here is Penny, one of the many students who will be putting all of her work done with me in class into the exhibition.

New Class Saturday 10th Nov

''Tropical Summer Day''

This is a version of the popular ''Summer Day'' painting.

It is suitable for beginners and experienced artists alike.

Please get in touch through the website to book for this class.

www.paintingmyway.co.uk

WELL DONE TRINE !!!!!!

Im so proud of my friend Trine's success in the art world.
Trine came over to stay with us for a week last year from her home in Norway and we had a great time.
She has just had a great article about her in Teen Trend magazine, she has worked very hard to get to where she is and we wish her loads more sales and success.
You can see her work and more on her blog http://www.mtv65.blogspot.com/

Getting Ready For Holiday

I have been ordering the canvas's ready for the painting holiday at St Audries Bay.

We are there for 2 weeks this time, so I am having the canvas delivered straight to the venue.

Last year we had to take a small suitcase because the art stuff took up a lot of room in the car, as we are there for longer I need a bigger suitcase!!!

I am working on some new paintings to do there, we will be having several acrylic painting days as well as a couple of encaustic painting days as well.

The Summer Day painting will be popular as always.

BBQ

Well after a morning mooching at the car boot sale, we decided to hold a family bbq, so we rushed off to the supermarket to stock up with steak and burgers, I have made some of my celery,nut, apple and sultana colslaw and Bill has made his own colslaw cos he dont like celery!
I have also made a delicious mango and tomato sweet chilli salsa to go with it all--I think the diet has gone out of the window this weekend somehow-but you have to make the most of this weather!!
Off now to prepare some more food!

Next Class August 25th

This is the subject of the next class on Saturday 25th August. There are just 2 places left for this class, it is different to my usual classes in that we will be working in acrylic apint and encaustic wax instead of the usual oil paint. Of course that means that the paintings will be dry for everyone to take home for a change.

Todays Class

This is todays class, from the left-Hayley, Carole, Brian, Jean and Sarah.

We had decided to do a mystical waterfall painting, and the results were beautiful.

It was the first time for both Sarah and her mother-in -law Jean who I had met at Shobdon Food and Drink Festival, and they were very surprised at what they achieved in their first class.

They all had an 'enchanted' look about them, right from the onset the paintings were completly different to each other, Sarah's sky was great, it drew you into the painting right from the start, Jean was a little nervous to start with and had to be encouraged to do a little more to her sky.

Everones waterfalls turned out completely different to each others, the difference is quite amazing we had big ones, wide ones -- all shapes and sizes!!.

Sarah also turned out to be a natural at tree's, much the same as Carole--its funny how some people find some things easier than others,some find trees a doddle and some find them more difficult, others find the waterfall harder than others.But that is what makes the classes interesting for both me and the students--we had such a laugh today- Sarah also won the messiest palette competition that we have every class-as you can see there isnt much space left on there!

Becki's Birthday

It was daughter Becki's 23rd birthday yesterday and a gang of us went out for a meal last night to celabrate, we intended coming home early after the meal but we were talked into going on to the Queen's as they had a soul night on there!! We all had a fantastic night-you can see Becki about to cut her cake watched by Rich, her boyfriends brother, and enjoying a boogie on the dance floor. We rolled in at 2am and my legs were hanging off from all the dancing!