New Events Planned

I have been busy planning a few events that I will have a stall at over the next few months.

May

I will be at Camden Middle Market on the 3rd of May 10am - 6:30pm, with lots of other great designers.

Then the following day I will be at the May Fair on the Green, West Drayton Saturday 4th May 12pm - 5pm

A May Fair on the historical heritage site of West Drayton Green. There will be Maypole dancing, a reenactment of 'Jack in the Green' Crowning of the May Queen, traditional woodcraft, local children dancing, morris dancers, and the Duck Pond Market (that's me)!

Also in May there will be a pop up shop in Camden where my work will be available to buy, this will be in the middle market and will be full of lots of other wonderful designers too. It will be open from the 10th May - 10th June with my work installed for you to come and touch, browse and buy. More details on this coming soon.

 

June

1st June 12pm-5pm I will be with the Dandy Lion Market in Kentish town, at The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Rd, NW5 2AA.

Here there will be lots of lovely art, crafts and vintage goodies to make your house and you look lovely. Then when you are finished enjoy a drink and some great food in the gastro-pub.

7th June 10am-6:30pm at Camden Middle Market with We Make London and lots of other great designers.

July

5th July 10am-6:30pm I'll be back at Camden Middle Market with We Make London and lots of other great designers.

13th July times TBC at Preston School, College Rd, Wembley for their Summer Fair.

All very exciting and I'm looking forward to a bit of sunshine too!

 

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Believe it or not..

This morning my desk was empty, I could see a white desk and now an pile of work has piled up on my desk!

Just trying to find out how much stock I have to take to my stall next week, as I will be at Camden Market on Friday 5th April 10:00am - 6:30pm I hope it gets a little warmer.

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Bad Morning????

Hello all

After a morning of trying to get a new piece drawn up I was up and painting which was a lovely feeling then I got a bit carried away and didn't wait for my work to dry! Which ended up in a bit of a smudgy mess :-(
 
 So instead of throwing it away I decided to experiment a bit....and again a bit of a mess!

Grand old mess!

 But it was just nice to throw around the inks and paint without a care. So then I started another piece and made a hash of that too...ok I'm now very frustrated and feeling very angry. So I took my anger and attacked a couple of pieces of paper and now I feel much better!

Kitty in the garden

Queen Bee

 I stopped trying to be neat and had some fun!

Colours

Just when you thought spring was on the way, it has turned cold again..bbbrrrrrr

Last week we had warm weather of 18c which is light jumper weather, no coats, boots, scarfs etc then Sunday something happened it got so cold it tried to snow! And as I write this it is trying again!

We need spring to come so I have found a few new colours to brighten up the day....

In the mix I have added some other greens and blues to show the different tones.

Here are a couple of my new pieces that I have painted with some of the up and coming trend colours, Emerald Green, Colbolt Blue and an old favourite of mine teal.

Fingers crossed for a warmer week or even better a warmer weekend!

 

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End of the Year

Hello All

Its been an amazing year and I hope yours has been too. Here are some of the best bits!

Wembley in the summer

From Little Seeds

Too This

Making tomato sauce from garden tomatoes

Diwali Chocolates

Children's Artwork

Fawn my night time cat.

John Sandwich

Banana and Chocolate Muffins

Winter Snow at the beginning of the year.

Kitt from Night Rider

Silly Sausages

Commissioned piece for Charity

Thames Festival

Not Forgetting Sunny Wales

I hope you had an amazing year too and an even better 2013!

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Painting Workshop

Hello

My latest painting has inspired me to show you guys how fun a few simple techniques are to produce a lovely painting.

Blue Dill in my Etsy shop is a lovely silhouette of a umbrella dill flower.

You will need:

Watercolour paper (300grm rough is good choice to get texture)

Watercolour paint

Acrylic Ink (not necessary but nice)

Masking Fluid

Needle/old brush/pen tip(ink less)

Pencil

Eraser

Masking Tape

 

First mark out the area where you are going to paint and remember to leave a border. Then draw your chosen flower, seeds, cat or anything you like, you could even go abstract!

 

 

Next get your masking fluid and go over the image that you wish to keep white. Don't do anything to your picture until it is dry and don't use your best brush in the masking fluid! - eek that is a bad way to loose a nice brush.

It should look like this when you have finished. Next mask the edges of the painting. Now you are ready to add the colours. Make sure you mix all of your paint before you start and choose the colours you wish to use as you don't want it to dry before you have finished.

I like to test my colours before I start, in my Blue Dill painting I added Acrylic Pearl Blue Ink to give it a shimmer.

Here I have applied a wash of paint and then dropped in my greys and greens and then a few drops of Acrylic ink. Before it dries too much I have removed the masking take to avoid it sticking to the paper. Then you have to wait for the paint to dry!

Make sure that the paint is really dry before peeling off the masking fluid, this should just rub off with your fingers. Again don't leave the masking fluid on for longer than necessary (too long is days not hours) as it will pull your paper up with it too.

Then tad-da you should have revealed your lovely new painting!

Easy when you know how :-) Send a picture of yours if you wish to my twitter or to Lizzesbeautifulart@gmail.com or if you would like your own but have no time, please feel free to send a request and I'll be happy to create one for you in your choice of colour!

Happy Painting :-)