Portrait of the owner of The Sparkly Shoe!

I painted this portrait of the gorgeous owner of the pink Sparkly Shoe a few months ago.  In fact she has two sparkly shoes!! It was the first portrait I had painted and I enjoyed doing it.

Alex.  Oil on board. 

Sparkly shoe!!!

I thought this shoe was gorgeous, and needed to be painted! And no I'm not the owner! 

Sparkly shoe. Oil on paper. 

One tangerine

A whole load of pots, I do have quite a collection plus a lonely tangerine. Providing a lovely accent of colour. 

A lonely tangerine. Oil on board. 

Last of the Azalea

I had a lovely white azalea plant in a pot which had been really beautiful, however there were just a few flowers hanging on and having picked them and put them in a vase they looked pretty good.  Good enough to paint!!

White azalea flowers.  oil on paper

Back to Dedham Hall and Breakfast!

I painted this from a photo taken when I stayed at Dedham Hall a couple of weeks ago.  It was beautiful weather and the sun streamed in the windows at Breakfast time.  Every table had one of  these wonderful arrangements of forsythia and daffodils.  I made sure I got up early enough to grab this photo before the hungry hordes arrived!



Ready for Breakfast!  Oil on canvas

To my friends who have commented on my Blog

I was using Google+ for the comments, and had had problems. I have gone back to the usual Blogger comments, unfortunately any previous comments disappear!! If you were kind enough to redo that would be lovely!!!

Sunshine and a view of the canal

We have had some lovely sunshine once the mist lifted, and I thought it was time to paint a view of the local canal which I am able to walk to. A quick painting to try and capture the colours and the light.

sunny canal. oil on board

Beautifully fragranced hyacinths

A while ago I painted some hyacinths in a pot, sadly as they grew they fell about all over the place!  So back to the supermarket for some gorgeous blue ones, and they were well behaved, firmly controlled the vase, so a little easier to paint!!



Blue hyacinths.  oil on board. SOLD.

Strange green flowers!!

I have no idea what these unusual flowers are, I borrowed them from a lovely bouquet of flowers!  They are a really beautiful pale green shade. Happily there are definitely some more varieties of flowers to borrow!  Any excuse to paint flowers!!

Unusual green flowers!

Back to Dedham Hall

Here is another painting from my days at Dedham Hall, done mostly in acrylic inks and acrylics, plus some oil pastels.  I am not quite sure what effect I was trying to achieve but to me it seems like a bit of a fantasy!

If you were interested in reading about courses at Dedham Hall click here.

Dusk.  Mixed media

Three lovely red onions in oil!

These beautiful onions were in the supermarket just calling out to me to be painted!  I hope I have managed to capture all the lovely colours.

Three red onions. Oil on paper

A field of poppies

I had four lovely days at Dedham Hall doing a mixed media course using media such as inks, acrylics, oil and soft pastels.  You have seen from my previous posts my first love is oil, so I was a little out of my comfort zone!! Here are the poppies painted on the first day, mostly from acrylic inks.

poppies