Fairy Tales

At the beginning of our fairy tale course with Carla Sonheim we were supposed to make self portraits in paper doll format. Life has been very busy but last night I got chance to make these little guys. It was so much fun!

I think this is the closest I have got to wearing a crown!

Bad Morning????

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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!

Thames Festival

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I have been meaning to blog for ages but have been so busy making stock to take to the Thames Festival and listing my products with a new site Something You Fancy that time has run away from me.

Here are some of the pictures from the Thames Festival, it was such a great day and so much fun, we were worried that being near the Rio stage that we would have a headache from 11 hours of music but far from it, I found myself dancing and clapping without even thinking about it. I must have looked a little mad!

This was the stage behind our stalls

This is my stall

The Rio stage in full force

The huge crowd in the area watching the performance

Not everyone was enjoying it!

The night time performance was magical

The sellers working at night

Many thanks to Mary from We Make London for organising the traders. Click HERE for all of the craft people that were there over the weekend.

This coming Sunday I'm back at the Duck Pond Market in Ruislip and because I have sold my original Colourful Cats I will have to find something new to display. Fear not if you liked the original I have prints available in my shop.

My Space and our Foster Cat

I just thought I would share with you my work space at the moment. I'm currently working in watercolours and have just finished a very colourful cat painting.

Latest Piece - Colourful Cats

John holding my latest painting.

And this is our Foster Cat Chuck, whom we are looking after for the Mayhew Animal Home. He is very lovely cat and so loyal it's almost like having a dog around the house!

Here are a few pictures of him playing with the trains. If you are interested in Chuck click here