I’ve spent many years doing life drawing, and learnt quite early on that there are rules of etiquette about how the model is treated and behaves. It may be considered very risque in some circles to do life drawing (I know, I’ve had some very strange responses to it!) Â but if everyone abides by the […]
I was going to write another piece for my blog post – infact it is written already and will be my next blog post – its a little saucy, a little rude, and amused me to write it, but it will have to wait until next time. I have something to write about that is […]
The workshop was the adreniline shot in the arm I needed. I turned up at the village hall just before 10am, balancing art bag stuffed with watercolour paints, paint palette, a large selection of brushes, pencils, kitchen roll, masking tape, water pots, A3 sketch pad, A2 and A3 watercolour paper, my easel, my lunchbox (cheese sandwiches if […]
Chatting with my spiritual healer friend earlier she talked of the book she is working on – as in writing, not as in reading, although she is an avid devourer of books and knowledge. And after enquiring after the state of the work in progress she mentioned that sometimes she meets up with other writer […]
I’ve had a very nice invitation recently, which caused a flurry of phone calls to see if I was able to accept. Well, I knew I was able to accept, but I needed others to aide in that acceptance, hence the calls. At the time I thought it might have clashed with another similar arrangement […]
I love the beginning of a painting, when the sheet of paper has been stretched on a board, flat, crisp, even. Blank, and waiting. And then I start drawing, pencil in hand, knowing where the lines are going to be, where the focal point is, and the other lines leading to it. The more I draw the more excited I […]
A peek behind the velvet curtain this week would show an awful lot of unpleasantness. A lot of it wet and sticky.  I try to keep away from such foulness but sometimes I can’t side-step it in time, it creeps in when I least expect it, and makes itself at home. Now, don’t get me wrong,  I like […]
Stuart is 75 and likes being naked around me. The fact that he’d never been naked infront of anyone other than his wife of 50 years shows the depth of trust he has in me, and the way I’ve opened up a new facet of his exuberant character. Since that first day he contacted me not […]
The old year certainly ended with a bang, at the masked ball (well more of a disco really but who am I to argue) I went to on new years eve. I’ve always always always wanted to go to a masked ball (they’re sooooo sexy to me, even though I knew it wasn’t going to be […]
