practising....

These are old images, taken around 8 weeks ago. I was practising, getting back into the swing of ledgers, books, painting and such before I started class. (to my class...you are not missing anything here. You know how to do all of this now...expertly!) 

I consider this the poorest of my pages, the first one for a long, long time but it was a learning curve, a valuable exercise.

backgrounds.....

I did warn you that I had developed a liking for these kind of  backgrounds...but never fear, it won't become a permanent ever present feature as I have very few paintings of my own. There are two here...little strips, studies of cherries and rose hips. They might not look like the best paintings in the world to you but to me they are marvellous.....I wrung them out of myself during a very stressful assignment way back. An assignment that I neither wanted, liked or enjoyed. Having said that....I am delighted I kept them. And the points, loops and puffs? Well I am consumed this week by titivation, edges, adornments because that is what the girls are on. I have been doing some titivating of my own too and will show you another time. I had better get looking for another painted background for them....

If you didn't stop by yesterday you missed my newsletter....you can read that here if you like and you can read about more classes here and here...

now I am off to rummage through folders in search of painting....