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Feeling festive after a gorgeous afternoon painting baubles with @bethanyholmesart Fizz, mince pies, twinkling lights and all the classic Christmas tunes, ehem East 17 🙌 …such a pleasure, Bethany you have me hooked! #christmasworkshop #abs
All of these delicious colours are getting sealed in with a Winsor & Newton satin UV varnish. Such an important step, I mean why go through all of this work and not protect it, right??! There will be no UV damage or fading here thanks to this l
A little tip I picked up from @twylatharp_ in her book The Creative Habit is to ‘build a bridge to the next day’, always finish a painting session when you know what you want to do next and leave this on a note for yourself. A practical t
We’re still in need of a name, frame, finishing touches and varnish but I’m far too impatient and couldn’t resist moving this painting around the house to see how the colours made a change to the space….its the best part 👏🏻
Autumn light hits differently 🍂 I’m soaking up all these gorgeous colours outside the studio window, so much inspiration to draw from! #artiststudiospace #artinspiration #acreativelife #takingamoment
I haven’t managed to pick up a paintbrush in a couple of weeks, for various reasons that I won’t bore you with. So while my paintings have been patiently waiting for me to return to them, I have been wrestling with a constant sense of imp
The current work in progress on my wall. I’m somewhere in the middle stages with this one, building layers. I’ve been sanding and blending areas, adding softness to contrast against the more confident, stronger marks. It pulls you in to i
Whenever I think of a painting as expressive I’m usually remembering the first marks, the loose, free dance with the canvas. First marks have a different level of energy that often dissipates as the painting moves along…God it’s fu