Painter's diary

Last week I attended weekend Colour Workshop at West Dean near Chichester with Mariella Baldwin. I chose a yellow flower to paint as yellow is a colour that is difficult to paint with and obtain the correct shadow colours. The course was excellent and I learnt a lot about working with colour e.g. mixing greys, colours for glazes, the way colours can be used for different effects.
The gardens were beautiful to walk in early mornings and evenings when we weren’t painting.
I painted the Rudbeckia below.

Below is a picture from the stunning gardens.

Silver Birch with Ivy and Herb Robert in watercolour with a more detailed close up below

A couple of pictures showing my stall at the May craft fair at Flittons Garden Centre in Wallington today. I sold some cards, including some of those pictured in the previous post and the painting of pansies pictured below.

On 13th May I have a stall at Flittons Garden Centre craft fair in Wallington. I have recently been working on some more of the small original paintings for cards as shown below. The stall will also have small framed paintings and cards made from prints of my paintings.

I picked up this small twig with some lichen to paint and then added some snowdrops and violets and a few fading grasses to make a more interesting composition and show the transition from winter into spring.

After all the snow and ice at last some spring flowers to paint!

Another study in pen and ink, this time of larch reworked from a similar study previously.

This is my stall at Flitton’s Craft Fair today in Wallington. It was a very friendly place with lots of regular stall holders who were very welcoming. I didn’t expect the weather to be freezing with snow on the ground in March but we had some customers and I sold some cards. I am hoping to attend again in May when hopefully the weather will be better.