For The New Year

I have something new for returning students this year--
The new artists badge and key fob which the students will be able to choose from when they have attended 6 classes and also this trophy which has been engraved for Painting My Way, for any students who have attended at least 10 classes--of which there are a few when I checked my records!
They are all lovely quality items and made in the UK too.

Serenity In Green-Jan 31st---FULL

This class is now full--I will be doing it again at a later date in the year-watch this space!

Carole--Im so Proud!

Carole first came across me and my classes last year when I held my solo exhibition in Leominster Library-March 2007

She went in to have a look and liked what she saw and
A phone call later and she was booked into her first class in April.

She was an eager student who listened and watched what she was shown, and was producing first class paintings from the word go.

She excels at flowers and trees-anything with lots of detail in them. That seems to stem from her love of flower arranging-she makes the most beautiful dried flower arrangements-and has a natural eye for things

She has been to many of my classes, along with her daughter Hayley (who was really disappointed not to have been able to make it today due to having a hair rehearsal for being a bridesmaid)

Today Carole bought along some of the work she has done at home, I was gobsmacked and so chuffed at her work-she has worked very hard. I'm afraid my photos don't do her lovely work justice!

My favorite out of all she bought along was the simple poppy painting and she has given me permission to use the idea for a painting--

She was thrilled to tell me she had sold a version of the bluebell wood painting!

Her friend John has started up his own business doing framing as a direct result of her coming to my classes-so Painting My Way has changed a lot of lives over the past year alone!

John makes mounts and frames to suit any type of painting--I haven't got his details off Carole yet --too much going on today but as soon as I get the details I will post on here.

Its very exciting hearing how my classes have changed my students lives--Jan has paintings in Germany as well as this country and at the moment has an exhibition of her work on display at The Nelson Inn, Rocks Green, Ludlow.

Sharleen Toller has her own website on www.affordablebritishart.co.uk and Jack has had friends ''steal" his paintings when he showed them at work!

Kay has sold 4 out of 5 of her paintings she did in class--all for over £100 -the most memorable being her "Summer Day" painting that she entered into the art society exhibition --priced at £180 because she didnt want to sell it -but someone loved it enough to buy it for £180!

There have been many friendships forged in my classes--between students themselves and between us and the students--its a real pleasure to know all of these lovely people and to hear just how painting has changed their lives!

See you all soon!

Todays class

We had a very interesting class today--mother and daughter- Linda and Jane were back after being some of my very first students a few years ago and alongside them was Carole--one of my star students!

Sylvia who should have been joining the class for the first time had to cancel at the last minute due to having some pulled muscles--too much gardening!

It was an interesting class today- The African Dream painting is open to lots of interpretations, and we had a lovely range of paintings in the class--Carole chose to do a simplistic version of it with one big feature tree reflected into the shimmering water--simple but so very effective.The photo does not do it justice.

Janes painting was more subtle and subdued as she wanted it, she had been to Africa on holiday and had a distint idea of the shape of the trees she wanted to put in her painting.Her pond glows with the light shining on it.

Janes painting took on a differnt look as she added touches of yellow to the bushes and trees, again her water on the pond shimmers beautifuly as the sun sets behind the trees.

Both Jane and her mum have booked up again for a new subject matter in Oct. They have said they will probley be back before then though when they have checked out the classes that are on offer before then!

We look forward to seeing them again

Fairford Air show

We had some spectacular sights over Ludlow again yesterday--the aircraft taking part at Fairford were flying overhead -Ive no idea what sort they were, but Bill and the men that were here from Sky replacing the Sky+ box (for the 3th time in less than 2 weeks) seemed to know what they were!

I will definatly be working on some paintings for a class aimed at men taken from these photos I have taken!

Fairford Air Show Practise

You might have to have a close look to see them, but there are some of the stars of Fairford airshow on these pictures.

We were having lunch on Tuesday when we heard a lot of activity in the sky outside-there were lots of different planes circling above Ludlow. We watched as they seemed to get impossibly close to each other-we didn't know at the time what was going on-until we opened our Daily Mail this morning and the reporter is saying about being over Ludlow in one of the aircraft practising for the biggest fly past in the RAF's history!.

I can remember saying to Bill that the planes seemed very close together at one point and the reporter says in her story how scarey it was to look out of the window and see the other aircraft a few feet away!

I hope the weather holds out for them, it will be a spectacular show if it does.

The sky in the photos was beautiful and I will be using the photos for some references in future paintings.