Embroidery whilst it snows

This is a little miniataure design from Rowandean that I have been playing around with whilst its been snowing here in the UK. As normally seems to happen a few flakes of snow the country grinds to a halt so I have staying in the warm and worked on this little project.


Hope that you like it, this is only about 4" x 3" and was quick to do with lots of lovely French Knots

Playtime with watercolours

At class last week we all had to choose a little teddy to paint and this is the one I chose, I am not that happy with it but we had one heck of an afternoon full of laughter and fun as we painted which is what counts as life is too short and it is nice to have a laugh together

Happy New Year to you all and a little reflection on the past year

This is the watercolour that the wonderful watercolour artist Gina Hall painted for me for my son Matthew's Christmas present. He lost his best friend of 17 years in the autumn of 2008 and I would like to share with you all how beautiful she was

Matts latest painting St George and the Dragon

For a change I thought you might like to see my son Matthew's latest painting, this is his third one that he has done and it is approx 6 ft x 6 ft he works in Acrylics and PVA and is on his final year of his Fine Arts Degree, the first year and a half he made sculptures and then decided to have a go at painting, he does not use a brush and has devised his own technique which the Dean of the University said they have never seen anything like it before and have it now hanging along with his other two paintings which are also huge on the main stairways of the University building so needless to say I am very proud of him and wanted to share his latest with you all. He has called it St George and the Dragon

I won the Beginners Class

Congratulations to Bobbi Price the winner the Advance Group and for Kay Fuller the winner of the Intermediate Group.

I am just tickled pink as I have won the Beginners Group with my painting, we are all members of Cia's Watercolour Group and the challenge was for a painting of our own choice with 'Snow'

Old Swinford School Doorway in the snow

This is the old doorway of the Headmasters entrance to the Old Swinford Hospital School
http://www.oshsch.com/ This is painted on Arches paper and is a quarter sheet size. I worked from a black and white photocopy of the colour photo and yes I know it looks strange but the snow is only falling across one side of the picture.

This school is only a short way away from where I live and is a beautiful old building and highly thought of in the area

Sheep in Field in winter

Not sure if this has worked, I finished it yesterday