Showing posts with label forum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forum. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Latest Commission




I have spent quite a few hours working flat out on the latest commission, I have got the base layers on, various shades of reds and black--the top picture is the colour of it now, as you can see its started off layers of quite orangey reds, but that is just to build up depth in the finished painting.
As more layers go on it deepens and gets more depth.
The white blotches on the top picture is not paint, but a special impasto medium that will allow me to create the texture of the poppy petal.
Tomorrow I will start to add the 20 odd coats of coloured glazes, each one having to be thoroughly dried in between-a tedious process but necessary none the less.
I am emailing the pictures as I do each stage to Rachael who has commissioned this piece, she can have some input into the painting, if she wants the centre smaller or redder I can do it.
It works very well. I am very pleased with it so far. Its always interesting to see how each one develops-they turn out different every time!
Tomorrow we are off to take the paintings to Stoke on Trent to The Art Bay gallery.So may get to do some Christmas shopping too !!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Meet Holly


Meet Holly,our 1st grandaughter born on Monday 16th July at 10:10pm in Sunderland.She is the daughter of Bills middle son Darren and his partner Lyndsey.
She weighed 7 lb 1 oz and she is absolutely beautiful.
We left the caravan at home on Monday and went up there when we heard she was in labour.They have moved into a new big house so we stayed with them.We will have to try and get away again soon in the van!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Clifford WI







We went to Clifford WI last night to do a talk/demo.
The evening was great-a lovely bunch of ladies they were! We had hoots of laughter all night as I told them all about my life as an artist!
Some of the ladies are going to do a class later in the year,end of September/early Oct time-its pretty manic til then for me.
Silvia won the raffle and chose Summer Day as her prize. The other painting shown ''The Waterfall'' was donated to the WI to use for fundraising.

Monday, July 09, 2007

Craft Fair.


This is me and Helen, a fellow artist member of the forum I am on, she was in the area on holiday with her husband for their anniversary.
They called by the craft fair, it was great to meet up with her and have a chat and a laugh!
All in all we had a very good day-the weather stayed beautful for us and there was LOADS of visitors about!