For someone who had never picked up a pastel before she did very well. She’d watched the demo from close up and heard the teacher explain about the special type of card that they were using that day, because it had a slight tooth to it that would hold the pastel to it. The pastels were something she had never used […]
I have a running joke with one of my arty friends – we both attended an art workshop a few years ago where the tutor did insist on calling the coloured sticks we used a very pronounced *Past-elles*, instead of the word everyone else I’ve ever met calls them which is “pastels”. Where I come from, […]
The workshop was about “Colour in landscape” so I’d got two clues as to what it would be about! But there was more to this one, as it was colour theory. And using pastels. I always surprise myself when I use pastels, as I usually say that I don’t like using them, and yet when I […]
One of the thing I love about the art workshops I go on, is meeting old friends. So, I was delighted to bump into two of them on Saturday who’ve I’ve not seen for some months, and catch up with their seperate news (yes, the cats still fine, her mother is better now thanks, her […]
My new friend Stuart rang me the other day to say that later on in the year he’s been booked in to do a talk to a local group of 50 or so writers, and has asked me if I’d like to go along to hear him speak, as I think he’s going to talk […]
