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Enjoyed an outing to Saltburn yesterday. Traditional seaside resort. Fish and chip lunch eaten outside. Fabulous walk along the beach ( with the bonus of sea glass found ). Then a climb back up the 173 steps in the cliff as the Funicular wasn’t working. Not the best of photo days but the beach view from the top was worth a few phone shots.
Looking after lots of visitors in the EVAN Gallery today. Fabulous feedback on the artworks and the vibrant display. Some items are now on their way to the USA (including one of mine).
Bees, Blooms and Butterflies were high on the agenda in the Sunny Gardens at Acorn Bank yesterday. Some photos aren’t quite as sharp as I’d like with breeze and fluttering, so won’t be printed, but ideal to be used as reference for paintings.
After a surge of enquiries to buy artwork recently on social media, I have decided on a standard reply. Hopefully this will discourage the many spammers whilst politely informing the occasional real enquirer on the best course of action. Please note spammers will be blocked / banned and if necessary reported.
My art group project of garden flowers is progressing with the sized outline drawings for mounts 10x8, 12x10 and A4 all completed and media to be decided.
Arty things over the last couple of days have focused on Ullswater. Printing some photos to replace stock of 2 sold (thank you buyers) and getting 2 artworks to the coloured pencil sketch stage ready for transfer to canvas.
Looking at my pastel boxes I had many unused pinks and I’m still working with my gifted greens. Decided on pink poppies which are now finished and in my Flora Gallery.
Prints and cards are also available.
You can see the work in progress from here
This weekend sees the changeover of work in the EVAN Gallery. Here’s the pictures, prints and cards I’ve taken in.
As I was in the garden this morning looking at my blooms ( having a garden is still a novelty for me ), my thoughts turned to pastels.
The pastels are out at the moment as I continue to work on my pink poppies.
Staying with the stones today. Another change involved sanding off the cats head. Then replaced it with a smaller, turned to one side head with larger ears looking at a brighter sun.
After completing last weeks stones, I decided to re-visit ones that had been be painted some time ago. Out came the sandpaper to remove the varnish and roughen the surface, followed by re-shapes of the bees and recolour of the flowers ( inspired by the flowers opening in my recently finished garden now attracting bees ). Here’s the re-vamped versions of the stones.
The first sloe blossom I encountered this year. Completed as my project at art group. Added the the flora gallery. View the work in progress.
On the agenda this weekend: Stones painted with clear gesso and designs drawn.
A sketch of Ullswater, abstracted poster style ( sky colour patterns need some adjustment ).
Here’s the last of the holiday sketches. Drawn whist away and coloured/inked over the last 2 art group sessions.
