Last night, after a pretty rough day with chemo fatigue, I suddenly had the urge to do some more to my hot air balloon mixed media piece…..and in the end was well chuffed as I finished it 🙂 I wanted to add some textured baskets so book paper came to mind, with some floated shadows […]
1000+ Youtube Followers :-)
WOW….I can’t believe it….popped over to my Youtube channel yesterday and found I have now got over 1000 followers…made my day! I haven’t made any videos for a while but now my treatment is in more of routine, it’s something that I can do gradually….and the best bit is playing with editing and adding music […]
Taking a creative break…..in Oncology!!
Hi everyone I know some of you have been waiting for new workshops to be available to book and I was really looking forward to sharing some fab projects with you but unfortunately I have to put them on hold! It seems breast cancer has decided to repay me a visit and I start chemo […]
Loving our Georgie’s :-)
We had such a great day on Tuesday, creating unique versions of my Georgie Girl canvas using pencils, paints, collage etc Lots of laughs….home-made carrot cake…..and Belgium chocolate truffles….of course! Looking forward to my Fresh as a Daisy workshops on Monday 🙂 Dawn x
Powder Play Fun
This week got off to a great start with three Powder Play workshops 🙂 I had lots of fun sharing all the different ways you can use Brushos Powders….sprinkling, spritzing, layering….and with beautiful vibrant colours I knew everyone would be excited by what they achieved. We combined the different techniques into a little sample book […]
Mixed Media Youtube Video
My latest Youtube video is a project called ‘In my Country Kitchen’ where I take you through the process of creating a mixed media collage on canvas using magazines as inspiration. Go to my Youtube channel and take a look and more importantly…have a go…would love to see what you produce. Happy painting… Dawn x
Two Day Workshops?
Hi everyone I have been thinking for a while about running a 2-day workshop as I know some of you don’t live near enough to come for 1-day and with fuel/train costs and accommodation it could work out quite expensive. With this in mind I wanted to see what sort of 2-day workshop you would […]
Bibbles the Elephant
Morning everyone I just realised that I hadn’t blogged my most recent mixed media piece…Bibbles the Elephant. This really was a ‘lets see what happens’ piece, using lots of different media and I’m really chuffed with how she came out. Â I fancied painting an elephant but not in the traditional way using just acrylics but […]
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 […]
Who says girls can’t do woodwork!!!
I think all those that came along to my Floral Driftwood classes yesterday will agree…WE HAD FUN 🙂 From prepping our wood with hammers and chisels to layering paints and mediums, and using decorated napkins and stamping…it really was a fab project from start to finish. I managed to find some gorgeous chicken napkins too […]
Daisies & Chrysanthemums Pattern Pack
I have just added another pattern pack to my shop, this time my Daisies & Chrysanthemums piece that I ran as a beginners course last month. This design can be broken down into separate parts and used on a variety of pieces from canvas’s to cards etc. I also have a video How to paint a daisy on […]
New Workshop ‘Fresh as a Daisy’
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