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A bit "Woolworthsy"

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Back at art group this week, Barbara, who is married to Kevin, was back from her travels and voluntary work, and it was good to see her again after quite a long absence. She was working on a painting of the Lake District, while Kevin himself was painting another meerkat, to complete the triptych he’d started some time ago. Maggie was putting the finishing touches to her geranium with gold leaf.

I have continued to work on my Canadian Rockies painting, this time, adding more detail to the mountains and some background colour for the trees in front. The photo I am using is rather bright, and the painting itself was beginning to remind me of the sort of thing you used to see in Woolworths years ago. Readers of a certain age will remember the “child with teardrops”, but sometimes there were also landscapes too, in Woolworths (or that type of shop). I have therefore had to tone the colours down.

The interior of Fairytale Bridals - the proprietor is organising a charity wedding fair on 2nd October
Note the artistic window dressing, especially the windowsills

This week, I would also like to give a mention to a forthcoming charity event at Clowne. It is a wedding fair, and I am told by the organiser that it would also be of interest to anyone organising a party or other event. It is in aid of “Elastic FM” a new community radio station for the area, being set up jointly by Clowne Enterprise and the Heritage school. It is on 2^nd October at 11.00-4.00 at Clowne Community Centre. There will be free face painting, and a prom dress is being raffled. Also Elastic have a page on Face Book, for which they would like some “likes” at and at the moment you can win a Dell tablet just by doing that (UK readers only). Their page is at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Elastic-FM/283236495023764

More news next week.

From Pen and Ink to Papaver

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This week, I have been making final alterations to some of my paintings before adding them to my sales site (link above). To complete this pen and ink trees painting, I have already added more black to the bottom, and may also add a bit more at the right, so that it goes all the way to the right hand side. I will be re-uploading my site in the next few days and you can see the new paintings and links then.

I also have two new links from that site. One is to Ceriboo, (also known as Ceri) who makes beautiful and unique bags http://www.ceriboo.com/. Based at Banks Mill Studios, Derby, she sells ready-made bags and can carry out commissions. She has an online shop and, for those of you who like to read blogs, she has one attached to her site.

A worthy winner of the “One Lovely Blog” award, Papaver Jewelry is an interesting and colourful blog http://www.papaverjewelry2009.blogspot.com/.

I have also been helping my son assemble and paint his earth and moon kit. He loves all things to do with the galaxies, and immediately homed in this on a recent trip to the National Space Centre at Leicester. What better way to spend his pocket money?

A quick mention for Tracey Stoddart, and husband and daughter Danielle, who have recently set up “Fairytale Bridal” on Mill Street, Clowne, a wedding and prom dress shop. They change the window display most days, and the windowsills look beautiful lined with satin with wedding accessories scattered on them.