Since the last blog post about painting two pictures at the art workshop last weekend I have completed them. Not at the same time of course. Each needed my full attention, seperately. But they are painted in the same way, with loads of texture in one in particular. The first one is all about the […]
Well its been a reall arty weekend starting with the workshop I went to on Saturday which slightly enigmatically was described as for acrylics or oils. I’m used to using both and know that they react differently in drying times. One takes minutes, the other takes well, days if you’re lucky but usually weeks. So, which one […]
What a lovely day to drive through the lush Leicestershire countryside to deliver three paintings for an exhibition. This is a new venue for me although I know the delightful little picturesque town of Market Bosworth well enough and have many happy memories of this very historic place. The venue in this instance is the delightfully […]
I met a man at the weekend. Nothing unusual in that, I meet a lot of people. The man in particular was the boyfriend of my man’s ex-wife. So I’m the girlfriend of his girlfriends ex-husband. Who is someone I like very much and get on well with. Just cos you’re divorced doesn’t mean you […]
I was very fortunate when asked to do my most recent commission because the client simply wanted me to paint a watercolour from a photo he’d taken and when he emailed it to me I could see that the photo was large enough so I could easily zoom in on all the tiny details. It makes such a difference […]
The last three days have been spent joyously working on the watercolour painting commission. Its a large painting being 26 x 18 inches so all the painting is done area by area. Watercolours are usually painted like that, rather than all in one go, and since I am copying the clients photo, the picture has to […]
I’ve had a couple of lovely arty days drawing. Does that sound strange for an artist? Possibly, but a lot of what I do and have done recently is painting. And whilst painting is something that’s done on top of drawing, its not often recently that I just “draw”. The drawing that I’ve done this week has […]
Chatting with one of my closest friends a few days ago about she told me that when she first came to this country just over 12 years ago from her homeland of Cuba she could hardly speak English at all. I find that amazing since she speaks fluent Spanish (obviously!), Italian and French, as well as English, but […]
