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 […]
**New Autumn Workshops **
After 6 months of hospital appointments it’s so exciting to be feeling well again and looking forward to sharing some art with you all 🙂 I have planned some new Autumn workshops and these are available to book now! The first one later this month is mixed media layering using pastels, paints, inks, papers etc…..lots […]
Yummy cakes!
Had fun last weekend, repeating my LOVE mixed media but on a different theme….. If you’ve been to a mixed media workshop with me, why not get out your notes, pick a different theme/colour etc and see what happens 🙂 I would love to see what you achieve! Have a great weekend. Dawn x
Mixed Media Love
I’ve been feeling a bit better the last few days and fancied having a play with mixed media, so I looked through my canvas stock and found one with LOVE textured in one corner…I love adding hearts to my artwork so I just had to have a play and create something pink!! I used papers, […]
Let the Jackson 5 kick start your weekend :-)
It’s Friday and we all love a bit of feel good Jackson 5 music don’t we?  If you fancy being inspired to get creative this weekend, pop over to my youtube channel and watch my  Mixed media Collage on Canvas ……In my Country Kitchen…..lots of fun with magazines, acrylics etc and a project you can easily […]
Show me your work!
Hi everyone I haven’t been up to creating any new pieces recently as chemo fatigue seems to have taken over, but I hope to have a ‘play’ soon….in fact I was looking through my Christmas books a few days ago (sorry for the C word in July!!) as before I know it I will be […]
Finished my hot air balloons!
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 […]
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
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
Fab ‘Bloom & Grow’ Pieces
Yesterday I held two half day workshops where I shared my ‘Bloom & Grow’ mixed media design. We layered with different paints, papers and mediums and then added extra colour and collage to give our pieces the finished touch. Â I had lots of fun with two fab groups of ladies….they loved my homemade […]
Private….Turn the Page
Just got to love being inspired by magazine articles….on Thursday I taught a private workshop of my Turn the Page project where we were inspired by words and images in glossy magazines and combined these with acrylics, stamps, Washi tape and more!!  All so different and all so fab 🙂
WOW!
Thank you so much to all those who have booked so quickly onto my workshops for February and March, booking confirmations will be emailed shortly. Linda Lock’s Butterfly class is full with reserves as well as my Floral Driftwood workshops and I only have one space left on my evening Bloom & Grow class! I […]