Good to have second painting on the go.

The clockwork bird was a car boot bargain - £1.00 and Buzz was 50p.
I like this first stage when its loose and free it will be lovely to keep it like this. The Framer will be sorted next week, he is 2 villages away - best to buy local and he is really good.

You can see the varied green ground showing through. The only green in the still life were the few bits on Buzz. Using a varied green ground will make it easier to balance these within the painting.

Oil paints are just wonderful. They glide over the canvas, picking up unexpected traces of another colour, adding, mutating...
Its been a while, the last few paintings have used acrylic for a more detailed under painting with oil paints scumbled or glazed over that.

The 4 still life paintings will all have a loosely brushed coloured acrylic ground with oils used to model figures and forms.

And I must sort out frames soon too, the list continues to grow....

I have 4 small (30 x 40cms) still life paintings underway now.
The photograph on the left is the first - Hands Up

These are for Giuseppe D'Anna's gallery - Argentum in Colchester.
It is a pre-Christmas show so the still life paintings are
cute and colourful and use toy figures and animals.



I have a lovely and very intuitive friend Jane Stevenson, who makes Back flower remedies - She makes them in the way prescribed by Dr Bach himself and they are potent and effective. Jane works with both people with animals and has created some great "Pet Blends", she lives in Cromer - as Dr Bach too.

I will put a link at the bottom of the post.  

I gave Jane a Navajo Tea bundle to try and this Thursday I think there will be enough flowers for her to make a new remedy from the Thelesperma megapotamicum flowers. It will be interesting to see what emotional states this flower will relate to.

http://www.creaturecomforters.co.uk   and do look at the CCFE Essences page to see how the "Mother Tincture is made,  it is a beautiful process.