Hi everyone Last week I finished another mixed media piece using similar techniques to my ‘Ellie-May’ elephant, but with a different theme and lovely warm colours. I have always loved painting daisies and creating this piece was great fun 🙂 This project is now available in my shop so you can grab yourself a canvas and have […]
Lets get Creative…photos
It was great to share my ‘Let’s get Creative’ mixed media canvas yesterday and lovely to welcome Sharon to my studio for the first time. We had fun playing with texture paste, stencils, pastels, acrylics and embossing powders, with everyone choosing their own theme and colours. Apparently my Victoria sandwich cake wasn’t bad lol […]
‘Ellie-May’ Pattern Pack
Hi everyone I’m so excited about my latest mixed media pattern pack ‘Ellie-May’. I know a lot of you loved my elephant that I did a few months ago and my evening art club are having a great time producing their own mixed media elephants using my design….so I thought I would share it as […]
Love to paint loosely!
Over the last few weeks I have been creating a canvas based around my name using a loose style of painting which I have built up with layers. I started with the letters and then thought of designs that began with those letters, weaving them through the text. Even though I wanted this to be […]
New Butterfly Canvas Workshop
As so many of you are keen to do this design by Linda Lock I am running this one day workshop again at the end of April. Go to my workshops page for full details and get back to me asap if you would like to come along, some places have gone already as I had a […]
Girls, girls, girls
Morning blog followers! I have had a cancellation on my Folky Girl workshop next Tuesday which was fully booked. This is a one day mixed media workshop where I will show you how easy it is to draw cute faces and combine them with simple clothes on a layered background. We will have fun practicing […]
Tuesday’s Egg Cups!
I had a fab morning, sharing my Egg Cups design and it was great to welcome Maureen, Sandra and Marion to my studio for the first time. Faye had treated Sandra (above left) to my class for her birthday and Sandra didn’t think she would be able to produce anything good enough to hang on […]
Eggs all round!
Last night saw the first of my Egg Cup workshops…..it felt quite apt that we are now in to March and Easter is only three weeks away! It was a fab class, lots of playing with scrapbooking papers, paint and inktense pencils. It is so hard to predict how much time is needed for a […]
Beautiful Wild Pansies
I had a great day yesterday, sharing my wild pansies canvas as a one day workshop, it was lovely to welcome Linda to my studio for the first time, all the way from Cardiff. After basecoating our canvas’s and adding our design, we painted each petal blending our acrylics with Jo Sonja Gel Retarder which […]
New YouTube video
A few days ago I had lots of fun making a new YouTube video ‘How to paint a daisy’. It’s been a while since I have made a video and apart from cringing when I heard my voice on the playback, I’m quite pleased with it! I explain about brush choice and show you how […]
What’s on your workdesk Wednesday 350
Not a lot to show on my work desk this Wednesday…I started a mixed media canvas at the weekend and although I have thought about my design I haven’t done a lot to it yet!! I’ve done a few of this style of mixed media….adding texture, paint layers, drawing a design and then shading and […]
*** New Spring Workshops***
I have just launched more half and one day workshops for April and May so go on over to my workshops page for full details. Why not join me for a fun creative time in the Paint Palette Studio….classes range from a gorgeous floral jug design by Debbie Cotton to my own designs including a decorated […]