Mystical Moon--workshop on 25th Oct

Due to a glitch on my website the Oct 25th workshop Mystical Moon has not been showing up on there until tonight! You will have a choice of colours for it--blues,purples,greys and the new brown and cream...

We use some beautiful metallic paint to highlight the foliage, and the moon and stars are created with some sparkly paint-it does not show up great in the photos!

As you can see from these previous workshops--the results are just great-every time!

there is a new brown/cream version now too..

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Todays Class--Topical Sunset

Well I had 2 last minute cancellations-one from poor Rhada who has had a really bad migraine since last night and one from a new student Val who had problems with a relative who was ill.
However the four students who did attend the Tropical Sunset class all achieved great results.
Lin was convinced she wouldn't be able to take anything any good home-when she finished her painting she announced that she would be hanging her painting in pride of place in her front room-she has visitors coming for lunch tomorrow!
Lin has also booked in for the Stormy Skies and Grasses painting classes next year.
Bev is coming for a one to one to paint a large brown birch trees on 1st Dec and also the Mystical Moon on Dec 5th.Ive nearly completed the commision of Thailand for her,just got a few bits to add when the paintings dry.

Christmas Cake

The house is filled with the most delicious smells at the moment! Bills Caribbean Christmas cake is almost finished cooking-just got to wait till 11pm and fetch it out of oven where its been for 4 hours. Then it has to cool for 30 mins before turning out of the tin!
So we wont be having an early night thats for sure.

Wellesbourne Art Society Demo

We had a lovely time in Wellesbourne over the past few days. We stayed at The Stag-a thatched roof pub, in Wellesbourne.

We went to the room at the fire station to do the demo.

Its a lovely big room, I had space to put up my stands with paintings on both sides, as well as some spaced around the walls.

There was a good crowd-many we had met before last November when we were there last time.

They also had some visitors from nearby art societies.

One of the members from last time bought along a painting that she did after being inspired by the demo the last time--she had made a lovely job of it!

I decided to paint a new picture that I had never tryed before in a demo.

Using just sap green and a touch of black I created a version of Serenity in Green- a landscape with water and trees.

It worked very well, everyone was amazed at the speed at which I managed to paint it!

I also painted a version of the waterfall on a black canvas.

There were lots of interesting questions asked!

Again, it was finished very quickly, I passed the paintings round to everyone to see just how much detail is in them.

Pictured are Sue (serenity) and Julie (waterfall) with the paintings they won in the raffle.

After a quick break for a chat and a coffee , I plugged in my encaustic iron and showed them the addictive craft of encaustic art.

Everyone was intrigued with it and soon the imagination of some of the members was working overtime as they had a go with the iron and waxes!

The club bought the complete set of encaustic equipment for the members to share, Im sure they will have a lot of fun with it all.

It also sounds like we will be having a group or two coming over to Ludlow to do a workshop in the near future.

While we were sat in the lounge of the pub this morning having breakfast, several very dressed up --- complete with fancy hats, ladies trooped in for a champagne breakfast before going off to Ascot in the very stretched limo that turned up outside! Great Fun!