Festival At The Edge

 We had  great time at this years Festival At The Edge..held in the beautiful Much Wenlock.We arrived on Friday morning and got the caravan,awning and gazebo set up--which proved to be a bit of a feat as the wind was quite blustery at times!
After not being used for  year the awning was a bit of a puzzle-- so before we packed up I went round all of the poles with different coloured acrylic paint to colour code it! We had plenty of room to put up tables and our stands..

I love using the old vintage looking lace tablecloths..and I have quite a good collection of them.

Dolly sat outside the stall,,and as I'm raising money for the O'Connor cancer unit at Shrewsbury hospital where my son is being treated ,people were invited to put some money in the donation tin for the cause in order to have a photo of her,,she raised quite a bit of money! Add to that the money made from selling off some of my paintings that have been around for a while and I think we raised a lot of money over the weekend..

The circus was set up nearby, the kids had a great time stilt walking and other things..

The beauty of taking the caravan is that we can have an afternoon Pimms....

I sold the pair of birches and also the Birch painting underneath to a chap who fell in love as soon as he saw them....

I don't know if the Pimm's was anything to do with it but I seemed to grow some pussy cat ears just after!

Loads going on there for all the family

Bill having a well earned drink...

All too soon it was Sunday evening and time to come home,,,am looking forward to next years already!

Winters Walk Workshop Oct 5th

James's first time painting with me--he came along with his Mum Anne , who was doing her 6th painting and received her painting brooch I give all my students for achieving 6 works of art! He did very well and followed my instructions well.

Anne is very confident and has never really found any of the paintings hard to do..today was no exception and her snowy path soon happened!

Zaz came along with his Dad Richard and Nan  Peggy,,he really found his forte...he is brilliant at painting trees with loads of character!

Richard's use of colour was lovely and bold--it works really well--

We had some fun with Peggy--now and again we get a student who finds it hard to do certain brush strokes..and for Peggy it was doing the horizontal strokes for the snowy path...they kept creeping uphill--we could see why-she was following the direction of the path up round the bend all the time--we got there in the end--but we all had a chuckle with her-bless her! There are a few things we do in the workshops that can be a challenge to do--and a lot of people will really have to concentrate to get the brush going at the correct angle--but we always get there in the end!

Tracey had a gift voucher to use and came along with her friend Helen,

Lovely big bold trees---the knife was used afterwards to give the trees lots of texture..

This was Jacks 2nd painting--his first painting was shown to an artist friend of his who remarked "it looks like you have been painting for years" what a compliment! I wonder what he will think about this one!

The end results! Well Done !

Richard ,Zac and Peggy with their masterpieces....unfortunately the other photos I took of the other students have vanished off my camera!