Its always nice to make other people happy and one of my favourite ways happened yesterday. Yeh, yesterday was a good day for that indeed. The first was the guy in Scotland who wanted the painting done of himself that I showed you in the last blog post who contacted me via Facebook to say […]
Well I had a brilliant weekend workshop, thoroughly enjoying getting covered in paint and coming home with blue fingernails, which is my idea of a good day! The room was packed, and although the subject matter was “Sea and sky” which sounds like a simple subject, it was a far from simple way of learning […]
Sitting quietly painting yesterday totally absorbed in what I was doing, the phone ringing was a small interruption. I answered it, and a voice I didn’t recognise lightly said “Jackie? Its Germany calling!”. A pause from me, whilst I thought of all the people I know in Germany – er, that would be none. The silence lasted two […]
I don’t know which I find most exciting. Finishing a painting, or starting one. There is that flush of excitement when I know I’ve finished a painting and can stand back and look admiringly at what I’ve done, knowing how many long hours have gone into the painting, and knowing that I’ve got a good […]
This week I happened to watch one of those house renovation programmes on TV. I don’t watch them avidly but sometimes they’re just easy telly to watch to relax to in an evening and as a creative person I love to see what revamps they make. This one in particular caught my eye not for the house […]
Email’s alright for making arrangements and talking about doing artwork for people, but its not as good as a face to face meeting, and that was something that I definitely needed to do with a new client at the weekend. Fortunately she felt exactlythe same way, so we sat down together for our business chat, both of us […]
When Robert met Ann he liked the look of her, and asked her to marry him. Fortunately she obviously liked the look of him too and said yes. They went on to have a son and a daughter Rose who married William who named their son William as well and when he married Elizabeth they also […]
The finishing touches for the wedding secret oil painting are coming together. I’ve not finished the painting yet, but am getting close to it. Having said that, I can easily spend half a day just putting a dab of colour here and there, just to give a painting a bit more zing and drama and think […]
