Macmillan Coffee Morning

Art Show and Coffee Morning

Saturday 1st October 2011

10am - 4pm

Enjoy a cup of coffee and homemade cakes and view paintings by

local artists at

Northborough Framing, Market Deeping

PE6 8LW

Pastel portraits

I haven't posted for a couple of weeks due to the very busy studio time recently.  This is a christmas portrait I've just finished and it was certainly more challenging than painting fur in pastel! 

Sunflowers

I continue to add depth to the painting before starting on the flower heads.

Sunflowers - stage 1

Having decided upon my design, I transferred it to my watercolour paper, masked the flower heads and applied a wet in wet wash to the background.  When this was dry I painted some negative spaces.

Sunflower watercolour

New flower painting class starts tomorrow and I have developed a project inspired by this bunch of sunflowers.  I will show my painting as the stages develop.

Commission a portrait for christmas

I'm back to painting portraits and taking commissions for christmas.  A guide price for this portrait would be £100 tastefully framed by my tasteful framer.  Get your photos to me as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!

The Old Bakery, Deeping St James

This was a damp and cloudy day!  I quite like to see reflections on a wet road and it's something we have a lot of in this country.  I'm going to paint more puddles this year!