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Flower Tree
"Flower Tree" ran as a live Guided Painting class in 2016. I offered two paintings that day, “ Flower Tree” and “ Enid”, a gorgeous violet elephant. It was the first time that I had offered a "double bill", you could choose one or the other. It proved to be a challenging afternoon -
"How Does your Garden Grow?"
This painting was inspired by the classic children's nursery rhyme, "Mary Mary". I loved this rhyme as a child, my mother was called Mary and I would wonder if she was Mary of the rhyme. She was always out in the garden so it seemed perfectly plausible. I also thought my Aunt was Princess Margaret, I had a colourful imagination or I was just easily confused. -
Hydrangeas : Guided Painting
"Hydrangeas: first ran in May 2014 and proved to be a massive learning curve for this fledging style of class. I have learnt so much since the early step by step classes and you get all the benefits of that knowledge. I have ironed out all the problems my " live" class encountered.
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Agapanthus : new downloadable Guided Painting Class
Agapanthus I have always loved agapanthus and blue is my favourite colour, I remind myself not to paint every image I make blue. As a child I loved... -
Blue Jug , Downloadable Guided Painting, new for November
Blue Jug, Downloadable Guided Painting November 2019
I first painted this image in early 2018. I love blue and white and as a child had loved the Cornish ware pottery we had at home. Cornish ware is blue and white striped earthenware.
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On Line Guided painting : why it's here
Booking and paying on line for classes was my original plan for the new website. For the longest time that seemed too far fetched but here we are, finally.
A friend had suggested I sell classes on line. She is very enthusiastic and positive, she even thought I should supply the paint. Initially I wasn’t very keen, although I kept nodding and smiling, she is very hard to say no to.
