tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22486604778101376442024-03-19T12:35:47.444+00:00Tales from a ShedJuleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-14366965726749958242015-06-16T10:38:00.001+01:002015-06-16T10:41:02.195+01:00Meet the Artist - Lyle Dayman<div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lyle Dayman is one of my top favourite artists, self-effacing, modest and exceptionally talented. It is a great thrill to have him as my featured artist of the month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I discovered Lyle a few years ago when he first started his Facebook Page, became completely smitten with his art and followed his work and adventures with great enthusiasm since that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He has led a very interesting and creative life and is now happily retired and living on the beach in Adelaide, Australia. (Well, perhaps not ON the beach itself!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm lucky enough to own some of Lyle's art. My heart always skips a beat when I look at the paintings on the wall, I shall never,ever tire of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BTW...Lyle sent me a few images for the blog post but I've taken the liberty of adding some of my favourites too! They are too good to miss out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I shall be very forward here and say go 'like' his Facebook page; if you like a particular image and would like to purchase, then just ask him if it's still available! Thats exactly what I did. He posts worldwide. You will NOT be disappointed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, let's see what Lyle has in store for us.... </span></div>
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Tell us a bit about yourself - what’s your background?</span><br /><br />I went to South Australian School or Art when I was around 16/17 and learned to draw. My first job as an artist was in the display studio at a department store where I worked happily for a few years. Because I was able to draw I went into advertising as a layout man. I never met or heard of a “layout” woman. I was eventually offered a job with a large national ad agency to work on the Berger Paints account as the local rep in Adelaide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The agency Fortune (Aust) Pty Ltd was about to lose Berger and asked if I’d like to transfer to their Melbourne office and I said yes. In 1964 Brian Monahan and I started our own agency Monahan Dayman Advertising and 6 years later we became Monahan Dayman Adams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The agency grew to become the third largest in the country, the largest Australian owned agency and the first to become a public company. I retired early and moved to a small Victorian country town called Yea. It was here I began to learn how to paint and had lessons from some of Australia’s top watercolorists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2003 we moved back to Adelaide and I began my journey with pastels. I joined Pastel Artists of SA, later I was elected President and earlier this year I was made a Life Member of the art society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Pastels can be a grubby pastime, so old clothes and apron have become my uniform. I paint in the garage because of the dust. Painting in the house with pastels is strictly forbidden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">What couldn't you live without in your studio?</span><br /><br /><br />The two walls of the garage where I tape a new painting every day. I call these walls Lyle’s Walls of Industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Has your art changed over time?</span><br /><br />Yes, incredibly so. I once thought it necessary to paint everything I saw and put these details in the picture. Now I completely ignore detail and try to keep pictures very simple.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">What work do you most enjoy doing?</span><br /><br />I enjoy everything about painting and have no particular dislikes. I don’t paint subjects I can’t handle, like portraits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">What mediums have you experimented with</span>?<br /><br /><br />Charcoal, pen and ink, watercolour, pastels, watercolour and pastel combined.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Do you ever get artists’/makers block? If so, how do you deal with it?</span><br /><br /><br />Not anymore. 2 years ago I began painting every day - one smallish picture. Amazingly this practise actually encourages me to keep painting and avoid the dreaded ‘artists’ block’.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">What is your dream project?</span><br /><br /><br />Like the Berger Paints slogan “Keep on Keeping on.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">My favourite living artist/maker is…</span> David Hockney<br /><span style="color: #e06666;">I can't live without…</span>my pastels<br /><span style="color: #e06666;">I love…</span>painting daily<br /><span style="color: #e06666;">I need…</span>to post every painting on Facebook every day<br /><span style="color: #e06666;">I hate…</span>missing a day from the easel.<br /><span style="color: #e06666;">I want…</span>to keep improving and see if it is really possible to become a very good artist.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given?</span><br /><br /><br />“Never try and copy skies and sunsets from nature or from photos”. Greg Allen, watercolour painter, Melbourne.<br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><br />Professionally, what are your goals for the future?</span><br /><br /><br />I try to approach art as a professional but I don’t consider myself as such because I paint for my own amusement. I make little attempt to sell work and like to show what I do on Facebook. If viewers like what they see they can buy and many do. </span></div>
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Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-88568011031553057562015-04-22T17:05:00.002+01:002015-04-22T17:06:56.130+01:00MEET THE ARTIST - Anne Omand from Country Bazaar<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is it almost the end of April? Where did that month go?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been very busy getting work together and framed for two Galleries - <a href="http://www.lazyhillgallery.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lazyhill Gallery</span></a> which is in the beautiful village of Abbotsbury, Dorset and just up the road from them, <a href="http://www.mulberrytreegallery.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Mulberry Tree Gallery</span></a> in sublime Swanage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Ahhhh... Dorset. *goes off into dream sequence*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BTW..I'm a 'national artist' seeing as I don't live locally. Sounds pretty grand, eh? *titters*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Tell us a bit about yourself - what’s your background? </span><br /><br />My formal training is totally remote from anything arty or crafty. I studied Catering and Institutional Management at college and adult education teacher training. However, from early childhood, as soon as I could hold a pencil, knitting needles, or use scissors you could find me engrossed in some form of making or designing. <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Where do you work? </span><br /><br />I work from home. I recently moved from my tiny wee characterful cottage set in an ancient wood, to a newer house with much more space. I now have a designated work area (studio might be pushing it a bit). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What do you wear when painting/creating? </span><br /><br />Comfort is key. I love wearing my favourite yoga trousers and a loose fitting soft organic cotton top. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Describe a typical day in your studio.</span> <br /><br />I start my day as soon as I’ve seen my youngest off to school. First thing I do is check my Etsy store to see if I’ve had any overnight orders from another time zone (Ooh, hark at me). Next it’s emails, Facebook and Twitter. I prefer to get the practical things like admin and parcels etc out of the way in the morning. I’m much more productive creatively in the afternoon and evening. My creative day varies depending on what I’m working on. When hand embroidering I am dictated to by the light pretty much. I like to use the sewing machine in the afternoon and early evening, and knitting I do later in the evening <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Describe the view from your desk.</span> <br /><br />I have a lovely view of a wooded hillside from my work table. Very typically Highland – lots of heather and Scots pines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What couldn't you live without in your studio? </span><br /><br />That’s a hard one. So many essential things. If pushed for an answer I think it would be my trusty old work table. It’s very forgiving when I bash it, or spill stuff on it, and, like a good wine, it gets better with age. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">How would you describe your art?</span> <br /><br />Ooh, now you’ve got me thinking. Hmm? Earthy and organic with a bit of quirkiness thrown in. I’m influenced by an eclectic mix of sources so it’s tricky to pin it down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Who or what inspires you most? </span><br /><br />The <span style="color: #990000;">who</span> would be Kaffe Fassett. He has been my most consistent long term influence. <br /><br />The<span style="color: #990000;"> what</span> would be the natural world, and more specifically woodlands, mountains and beaches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ultimately I would love to have a studio/shop to stock my work and the work of other local/UK artists and makers. In the meantime I’m content for things to grow organically and see where it takes me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many thanks Anne for a great insight into your world of creating and making. I'm very envious of the view from your workspace and still covet the Red Riding Hood wooden hoop!</span></div>
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Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-74968582169076152062015-03-28T13:54:00.003+00:002015-03-28T16:05:27.728+00:00In search of a plug<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't you just love it when you stumble upon handmade goods and their designers?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd headed out purposefully to visit a plumbers merchants to replace the rubber seal on the bath pop up waste that has been leaking water at a rate of knots. (A posh chrome plug thingy that pops up and down to keep in or release water). I can tell you're impressed at my specialist knowledge, non?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning I had the undivided attention of the dyed in the wool owner who searched high and low in his ancient 1950's shop for a replacement rubber ring, peering into numerous drawers, boxes and bins; all to no avail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, we did put the world to rights and concluded that you basically can't go wrong with a bog-standard plug for 65p. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He didn't hold out much hope of me finding my posh one either. Apparently, it's an Italian make and they change designs on a whim, possibly in a lunchtime or whilst they're having their much needed siesta. *sighs*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jo from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uniquelyyoursbyj">https://www.facebook.com/uniquelyyoursbyj</a> hand paints a variety of wooden goods including crafted boxes using the lush Farrow & Ball paints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> FYI - As a youngster, my grandfather was part of the start up sales team for F & B when the fledgling Dorset-based company was just a twinkle in the eye of John Farrow and Richard Ball so I feel a certain loyalty towards it. They were initially suppliers of paint to the Admiralty, the War Office and the Colonial Office and I like to imagine that my grandfather had an employee's discount and therefore painted his whole house in what may have been Battleship Grey, or Frigate Blue or perhaps Tea Platation Green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beautifully displayed on Jo's stall was an array of boxes, hearts, mirrors, frames and plaques and I opted for three gorgeous boxes in Pavilion Grey and Blue Ground. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each one painted inside and out, finished with a hand-painted stencil in a contrasting colour and removable, wooden dividers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you know me, I got talking to Jo and by the end of our chat we exchanged business cards with a promise to arrange a meet up at some point in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Coincidentally, her neighbouring stall was run by Diane McClatchie of 'Danuta Bags' and Diane lives in the same street as Jo. What a small world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was completely taken by a capacious 'Craft Bag' that Diane had designed and made. It could quite easily be used as a knitting bag, to store magazines, toys or even used as a 'tidy bag' in a sitting room. It's fully lined, padded and has little individual pockets sewn into the inside in the contrasting, floral fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MY bag (I bought it of course...what did you expect?) is made from two complementary linen fabrics by Jane Churchill and I LOVE it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-45475645858796812002015-03-15T17:57:00.003+00:002015-03-15T19:09:35.009+00:00MEET THE ARTIST - Judith Yates <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">February came and went and not a blog post in sight. That makes up for writing thirty blog posts in January, i reckon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've just about recovered from the 'Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days' challenge and have been bevearing away behind the scenes on some coastal paintings and commissions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now you're probably sick to death of my ramblings on here so I thought I'd introduce a new monthly blog post where some of my favourite artists and makers are featured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kicking off the first one is Judith Yates. A seriously mulit-talented artist in her own right who over the years has worked with some of the best design studios and galleries both in the UK and abroad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not only does she have a wicked sense of humour but she's one sassy lady, kind with words, generous with support and advice and I'm proud to say, a good friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Tell us a bit about yourself. What’s your background?</span><br />Well, I already feel as though I’ve already had 3 careers in the art world one way or another. But in the end, I’ve always made a living creating images of different kinds.<br /><br />So to be brief -I did a fine art degree in Newcastle upon Tyne moved to Brighton and sold work through galleries in London and Brighton for 5 years. <br /><br />Worked in design studios, as a designer / illustrator for 8 years producing designs for high street companies . I then worked freelance, from home for 20 or more years designing for all sorts of products, scarves, ceramics, book covers , jigsaws, kids toys …the list goes on …I also created repeat fabric designs for an agent who sold to furnishing companies in America. <br /><br />Then 4 years ago, I returned to my painting, I have never been so happy in my working life as I am now and part of me wishes I had never left it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I work on my dining room table, have done for 25 years now. The last 5 years have seen it filled with canvases of all sizes and art materials spread from one side to the other. I would love to have a real purpose built studio, who wouldn’t ? All sky lights …and huge white walls ….but back to reality … I know I am lucky to have the entire room for my work and I love my little studio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It looks out onto our small back garden, bursting with lush, jungly greenery and deep borders and weeds……lots of weeds, my bird table is strategically placed to spy on visitors, but so far so few!<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">What do you wear when painting?</span><br />Fabulous and chic clothing at all times of course! Slarted in oil and acrylic paint and fraying at the seams. I have never been one for a painter’s apron. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9__pEIiHZAPKYPWepo638t45usdm6F5pjAqLuZKEQykI1QATZXcXDHrEcYdQ6ehmM5OGaL3m-MwFc7zeNBi6icpkV4q5-d_5eMwe-uVSjzM1ngDRW3g6RGRrBJK1uI-Xb_4KAwBFa7cY/s1600/EarlyMorningMistsml.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9__pEIiHZAPKYPWepo638t45usdm6F5pjAqLuZKEQykI1QATZXcXDHrEcYdQ6ehmM5OGaL3m-MwFc7zeNBi6icpkV4q5-d_5eMwe-uVSjzM1ngDRW3g6RGRrBJK1uI-Xb_4KAwBFa7cY/s1600/EarlyMorningMistsml.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">What couldn't you live without in your studio?</span><br />My huge, central, solid table, space to spread out everything around me, jars, paints, equipment, reference the whole lot.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">How would you describe your art? </span><br />I'm really not sure.. ooohh now you’re asking. It is honestly not something I think about, nor do I aim to create work in a particular vein, but if I had to call it a name, possibly “Contemporary Impressionism” at a push, oohh that sounds flash!I’ll leave that to others and hope they are kind!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAG9Qn7L78_W651_nSqm9WkeQckqaJa00JpMXIcbZXs662qKUKJ3QhJGVcjjAR7JpJvm02NcUtKn8G3t5zpyTBvQw-6DQS9TaZSQ8AZhkyvN3v0_UM0mJkUjCK_XvwiVofHC4sMgrMEOs/s1600/GodreveyRockssml.jpg"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAG9Qn7L78_W651_nSqm9WkeQckqaJa00JpMXIcbZXs662qKUKJ3QhJGVcjjAR7JpJvm02NcUtKn8G3t5zpyTBvQw-6DQS9TaZSQ8AZhkyvN3v0_UM0mJkUjCK_XvwiVofHC4sMgrMEOs/s1600/GodreveyRockssml.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Has your art changed over time?</span> <br />It changes all the time, because I left my painting for 20+ years, when I picked it up again 4 years ago, I went back to where I left off so many years back, but I am getting more confident every time I pick up a brush and closer to knowing what I want to put on the canvas, I do wonder where I would be if I had never left it for so long ……..I’m playing catch up, but catching up daily.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">What work do you most enjoy doing?</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My seascapes, all dramatic waves and shimmering light and my atmospheric landscape all wild places and subtle suggestion.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2O1E4-YDgF6-D9NWYflHDKtXxeW47o2HtSPwga4mZk-FlhqcBgvu_W9TKmTVoRzVY6ycs7MCs2mp_zL8jS9gPBjViLoNwSnSmobENAHv4VYwH6QBhKBh1sIWDBtuDmGec9y19NiW0IQ0/s1600/Gurnards+headsml.jpg"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2O1E4-YDgF6-D9NWYflHDKtXxeW47o2HtSPwga4mZk-FlhqcBgvu_W9TKmTVoRzVY6ycs7MCs2mp_zL8jS9gPBjViLoNwSnSmobENAHv4VYwH6QBhKBh1sIWDBtuDmGec9y19NiW0IQ0/s1600/Gurnards+headsml.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">How do you know when an artwork is finished?</span><br />Well they do say it is finished when one more brushstroke would not improve it! But I know it’s finished when I’ve looked at it countless times and nothing more suggests itself to me. <br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Do you ever get artist’s block? If so, how do you deal with it?</span><br />No I can honestly say I have never got artists block, annoying though that may be! In fact quite the opposite, I get artist's overload, it’s the new term for it, I’ve just decided! I always have so many ideas for series of works buzzing round my head, that I have not got enough hours in the day or days in the week to complete them ……it’s like my head will explode with them if I don’t get them down on canvas, I can exhaust myself thinking about them all and even paint them at night in my head, I’m used to it now, its always been that way since being very young. If I could grow 4 sets of arms I’d be fine.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">What is your dream project?</span><br />I think it would be a big exhibition, of my seascapes / landscapes on very large canvases, so large that you feel you're part of the painting standing in front of them. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERPy04tKCBxnnv-KvXyHxgZqJfCZK61JuhnQsdrJYrjAdgwk5QNVMd3B0tbtMhUyys-A31OWv5k8tNXmX-GtRRndYS15IyhXutATz8aQ4835irh8jA5Ld0jkkK5tAd4h7MEq9r0i2fjs/s1600/St+Ives+shadowssml.jpg"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERPy04tKCBxnnv-KvXyHxgZqJfCZK61JuhnQsdrJYrjAdgwk5QNVMd3B0tbtMhUyys-A31OWv5k8tNXmX-GtRRndYS15IyhXutATz8aQ4835irh8jA5Ld0jkkK5tAd4h7MEq9r0i2fjs/s1600/St+Ives+shadowssml.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Describe a typical day in your studio.</span><br />As soon as I walk in, I sit straight down at my computer in the corner of the studio and catch up with my fellow artist friends on Facebook . A day would not be complete without the usual cheeky banter of a supportive, witty, talented bunch, I always think it is an artist's version of a football dressing rooombut enough about those terrors! <br /><br />After that catch up, I answer emails and try to start work at 9.00. Any later and I think I’m slacking.<br /><br />The sweetest kind of day for me is when I am just painting all day, and I will work through until 4.00 just stopping for a very quick snack for 10 minutes and a chat with my husband who is tucked away in his own studio upstairs. All this is supplemented with copious amounts of very strong coffee, loud music and me singing along like a demented thing …I stop at about 4.00 utterly exhausted, no longer able to see what I’ve painted!<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Is the artistic life lonely? If so, what do you do to counteract it?</span><br />Back in the days before Facebook, I used to go to the village shops and find myself telling the local butcher my life story, his face a mask of feigned interest mixed with pity! But now, I get on the party that is Facebook and I'm never alone, it’s like one big open studio with the advantage that you can politely close the door and say …see you later!<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">My funniest moment...</span><br />In life - too many to remember in detail, so many things about this life make me laugh out loud, most of them I can’t recall once gone and those I can, I couldn’t possibly repeat in public!<br /><br />In work - my young self - hilarious!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCevmDQvS8Dnrr_NhAFhdsNdwERspZ0XFViUNYJDfvpMFKJMdlVh5GMKTx9RyqY6q8TTZXHixCZiL-txT40IePy7Kakz4pkqea13bWUxh6b_ar66FYGtlhVALZwAae_jKslXRyHFhIxo/s1600/St+Mics.sml.jpg"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCevmDQvS8Dnrr_NhAFhdsNdwERspZ0XFViUNYJDfvpMFKJMdlVh5GMKTx9RyqY6q8TTZXHixCZiL-txT40IePy7Kakz4pkqea13bWUxh6b_ar66FYGtlhVALZwAae_jKslXRyHFhIxo/s1600/St+Mics.sml.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">My favourite living artist is...</span><br />Now this is tricky because I admire so very many for quite different reasons and all with vastly different work. But some I keep going back to, they are those who’s work makes me yearn to able to do what they do with the same incredible skill …..one of those is Robin Mason, he has magic in those hands!<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">I can't live without....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breathing<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">I love... </span><br />My kind, sweet, funny, understanding, partner of 28 years, my husband Colin……….PS can I use your best paints now?<br />To have time to look at the sky with nothing to do………<br />Being by any stretch of water, coast, lake...Must have been a fish in a previous life.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">I need... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Food, sunshine, a large glass of white, a big easel, a new set of brushes! Some decent clothes to paint in, a long lazy holiday …but not necessarily in that order.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">I hate... </span><br />People who take themselves too seriously, cruelty, pomposity, <br />Not being able to paint for longer than a week. <br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">I want... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be 20 with the mind and wisdom of a 50 year old!<br />Time to just be still and breathe. <br />To become a really good competent painter and keep painting into my old age .<br />To end my life knowing I really lived at least some of it as I wanted to! <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFbwRD0tk1d1cG4L0yaEpOP0qR5UTO0rki-EGEw5Yp1C1U8B2dT3JrEyFoda0DYtZQyV3lO5Qj32rOym3H4u40pIpxW_DOfDMIvJZFigT_fbcmSXw2aFF_X1PnQb9nre-82ILTVlTpfw/s1600/Studio+work+.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFbwRD0tk1d1cG4L0yaEpOP0qR5UTO0rki-EGEw5Yp1C1U8B2dT3JrEyFoda0DYtZQyV3lO5Qj32rOym3H4u40pIpxW_DOfDMIvJZFigT_fbcmSXw2aFF_X1PnQb9nre-82ILTVlTpfw/s1600/Studio+work+.jpg" width="373" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Personally -Always be yourself, you’re good at it and it is much easier than trying to be someone else.<br />Professionally – Paint what you love and others will love what you paint.<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Professionally, what are your goals for the future?</span><br />To be represented by one or two great galleries, and paint happily for ever more. I don’t ask for much!<br /><br /><span style="color: #45818e;">Where can we buy your art? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Facebook page where I chat and post all new work and work in progress. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/judithyatesarts?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/judithyatesarts?ref=hl</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ukartistsonline.com/artist-profile.aspx?artist=Judith%20Yates">http://www.ukartistsonline.com/artist-profile.aspx?artist=Judith%20Yates</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/judithyates">http://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/judithyates</a><br /><br /><br /> My website - where I put new work and keep up to date weekly <a href="http://www.judithyates.com/">http://www.judithyates.com/</a><br /><br />Thank you so much Judith, I just KNEW this was going to be a great introductory blog post for my 'Meet the Artist' feature.<br /><br />If you haven't already 'liked' her Facebook page, get over there right now and when you see an absolutely fabulous painting on her page that you just HAVE to have, all you need to do is ask! (I've done that already and it's now on my wall!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, that's it folks!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The oil paints are put away, the easel and table are cleaned and I've finished my 'Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Feels good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm just putting the finishing touches to the canapés and the champagne is chilling in the fridge for the showing tonight at 7pm sharp.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Isle of Wight - a much maligned holiday destination, but I beg to differ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We spent a fabulous week in Ventnor in a wonderfully preserved 1960's dwelling which was designed by a rather eccentric woman and her sister. Not your regular house either. The living quarters are all on the first floor and you access them via a wrought iron, spiral staircase. Everything was authentic 1960's and austin Powers would not have looked out of place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The views from the balcony that ran the full length of the house were to die for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The week was spent bimbling round the various coves and beaches.Trust me, no two are the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The island is famous for it's range of coloured sands, though I declined to have a go at layering them into various receptacles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, Isle of Wight rock was purchased along with a 'Kiss Me Quick' hat. I</span><br />
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Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-39117326877374867732015-01-30T07:00:00.000+00:002015-01-30T16:48:36.213+00:00End of the Day<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd like to gain just a wee bit of pleasure from the last couple of challenge paintings, so I'm pleasing myself with regards to subject matter and there'll be no more angst ridden posts. Yay!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(OK...you lot, you don't have to shout, woo and clap THAT much!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Against the clock once again and after another stressful day. (Anyone got any wine?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I stuck some lute music on the old CD player in the shed and lost myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Kynance Cove is just 2 miles from Lizard Point. They should re-name it Rocky Cove as it's full to the brim with magnificent, towering, majestic stacks of granite and serpentine. It's like a cavernous cathedral without the roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I adore a beach that is bereft of crowds and selfishly want it all to myself. Families have slowly disappeared from this one and headed back to their accommodation, carrying tired, weary toddlers covered in sticky sand and smelling of the salty sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm learning that it's what I leave out of a view that's just as important as what is left in so rather than painting everything slavishly, it's good to give certain things the elbow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not aiming for photographic reproduction, more a sense of place, the weather, a feeling, a time and a moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you know what I'd REALLY love to do tomorrow night when it's all over?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'd like to exhibit the thirty paintings and invite all you lovely folk that have stuck with me and commented on the posts, round for a soirée with champagne and nibbles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My first EVER exhibition. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wouldn't that just be grand? </span><br />
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Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-14386359549499122902015-01-29T17:59:00.004+00:002015-01-29T17:59:58.285+00:00In the Attic<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I basically threw everything at this one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Value, limited palette, light and shade, perspective...and my first EVER 'interior'. In fact I don't think I've ever in my whole life drawn an interior never mind painted one, well not unless painting the walls at home with Farrow and Ball qualifies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been on my list of personal challenges for the whole month and I've neatly avoided it. I wished I'd rubbed it off, now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Didn't want to do it on the last day, either, that would be madness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can safely say I don't think you'll be seeing any more interiors from me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I busied myself (read 'wasted time') by adding pattern to the furnishings. That was the best bit. I needed some mindless doodling after the stressful day I've had. (Don't ask.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BTW...I ran out of time so it's not finished....and won't be anytime soon! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">DAY 28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Blustery Day on Porthmeor Beach' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PALETTE KNIFE ...the final frontier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This afternoon I threw caution to the wind and entered the shed armed with a palette knife determined to produce some sort of a painting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was no preliminary sketching, blocking in or such like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The thing is... that would be all fine and dandy if I actually KNEW what I was doing with the palette knife. Apart from icing the odd Christmas cake and once or twice laying a brick, I've never actually had any experience using one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last year I visited the St Ives Oxfam shop on Tregenna Hill. It's well worth a visit just to browse their vast array of books and drool over the art supplies at the back of the shop, where I bought my palette knives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, if you step out onto the pavement, turn right and walk to the top of the hill you will be treated to the most magnificent rooftop views across St Ives, harbour, The Island and Porthminster Beach. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The best vantage point is from the bus station where there is a little fenced walkway around the tarmac but it has a 'No Entry to Pedestrians' sign.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ignore it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if you're approached by the bus inspector pretend you're foreign and can't understand him. It worked for me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Io non comprende!' *gesticulates and throws arms in air*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Suffice to say the painting this afternoon was a baptism of fire.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can only liken it to to my first driving lesson when co-ordinating feet, hands and eyes all at once was nigh on impossible and I felt as if the car was in control of ME. OH who was not impressed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My attitude to most things has always been 'It's not rocket science'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have since discovered that palette knife painting IS rocket science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A bucket load of paint is required especially if like me you, 'dirty' the pure colours and have to wipe it all off the knife and start again. Steep learning curve doesn't come into it but surprisingly, it was enjoyable. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm thinking of doing an abstract next to use up all the wasted paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*sighs with relief, licks end of pencil and ticks 'Palette knife painting' off list*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Twenty -eight down, three to go...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">DAY 27</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Early Morning - Godrevy Lighthouse' - Cornwall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Godrevy isn't the most picturesque of lighthouses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It reminds me of a stack of white toilet rolls but it does have the advantage of having the most beautiful of settings just 3 miles northeast of St Ives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From afar, you'd more than likely think that it was quite small. You'd be wrong. It's vast!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I took the photo early one morning from the St Ives coastal path with a zoom lens. The sea was silvery-white, dead calm and the sea mist was lingering around the rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> When I uploaded it, there appeared to be a minuscule dot in between the two larger rocks as if someone had got a pin and pricked the sea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was only when I zoomed in on the computer I discovered it was a canoeist! I might upload it later for you to see. It will give you a sense of proportion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The challenge for this was to keep the whole thing <b>simple</b> and use just two colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">DAY 25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Boats'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shadows are the darndest things, aren't they?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apparently, 'they anchor the object/thing, it becomes solid and makes them part of the painting.' So I'm told...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The photo for this painting was taken in St Mawes on a very hot, sunny day and the shadows were sharp and clearly defined. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Again, this one involved a great deal of squinting to see those flipping 'values'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> BTW..I'm a little concerned that all this squinting I'm doing is going to cause even more crow's feet. The things I do for my art...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just five more paintings to go folks and then you can all breathe a sigh of relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">DAY 24</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'The Edge' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mevagissey is a world away from buzzing London. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank goodness...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's the sort of place famous people go to in the knowledge that no one will recognise them. (No, not me, silly! I'm recognised everywhere I go! 'Ooh, look! Isn't that Jules from Juju & Bubba?')</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*titters*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's tucked into a hidden-away corner of the south coast of Cornwall, has a quaint working, fishing harbour and an olde worlde village atmosphere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, I don't want all of you booking up the place, either! Hear me? it's not THAT good. *crosses fingers*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We stayed in a little place literally perched on the cliff, just off Polkirt Hill. And when I say 'perched on a cliff' I mean RIGHT ON THE CLIFF EDGE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After driving for a squillion hours and a few arguments about the co-pilot/navigator being totally useless - moi) we arrived in the pitch black, dead of night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A gale was blowing, there was an angry roar from the sea (though we couldn't see it) and the sea spray was slithering it's grainy, salty fingers down the windowpanes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was even seaweed glued to the glass. *Nods head*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OH had this romantic idea that we'd have the bedroom overlooking the ocean and at night we'd open wide the windows and allow the sound of the gentle, rhythmic waves to lull us to sleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No such luck.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, we did open the window on that first night but the noise of the crashing waves against the rocks was so deafening (and a little frightening) we closed it firmly praying that the cliff would still be there in the morning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So much for romance, eh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The following morning, I drew back the curtains for my first glimpse of Mevagissey harbour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nothing prepared us for the stunning view across the vast, blue ocean or the dizzying depths to the rocks below. Every window had a green haze on it and was speckled with stuff you'd expect to see on the beach so muggins here in flip flops and dressing gown cleaned the windows. I know what you're thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had the most wonderful time there - walking the cliff path, strolling down the hill after supper to a virtually empty harbour, re-charging the batteries and breathing in clean, ocean air.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I took more photos than David Bailey and this painting is based on one of those from the cliff walk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I'm not good with heights, dancing on the table is quite enough height for me and usually means when I've duly embarrassed myself/family/onlookers enough, I have to ask for assistance to dismount said table due to feeling a tad light headed.(It's a medical condition, see.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, the views down from the crumbling cliff edge into the black, rocky abyss were worryingly mesmeric, lulling me into a false sense of security. I walked within a few feet of the edge then crawled on hands and knees for the last few inches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was only when I'd finished taking photos and stood up that I felt myself slowly leaning forward, drawn by the magnetic pull of the waves and looked to all intents and purposes to those watching, that I was going to topple over the edge.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Clearly I didn't.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But it was the sort of sensation little children experience when they are standing stock-still by the waters edge, they become spellbound by the pulsing waves rolling in and out, in and out. Then suddenly, as a wave recedes they are pulled by an invisible force towards it and usually face plant themselves into the wet sand. I know, I've done it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I hope you all appreciate the extra mile I went, risking life and limb to bring you this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Better late than never! Profuse apologies - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not a full-blown oil painting I'm afraid, but some quick, little sketches of my robin. Actually, THREE mini watercolour paintings...that's all I could manage this evening.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I say he's mine, but he probably has a dozen women fighting over him, feeding him tidbits and spoiling him rotten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It always amazes me that a robin in particular, can look so very different when viewed from different angles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I often wonder why robins are so incredibly friendly, trusting birds. Or is it that they are just bold and brazen and intent on gathering food?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few years ago we had a pair of robins that nested in an old, terracotta pot which was attached to a brick wall swathed in thick, shiny, green ivy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We watched them each day collecting nesting material, flitting in and out, busying themselves preparing for their new family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The nest was literally two feet from our patio window so we could sit in comfort watching all the shenanigans. Then the eggs hatched and we could leave the door ajar and listen to their tweetings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We went away for the weekend in the knowledge that all babies were thriving and mum and dad where reliable, text book parents. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On our return,the first thing I did was to go check them out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was met with an horrific sight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The babies were strewn around the patio, cold and lifeless. The nest lay abandoned and there was no sign of the parents. For the life of me I couldn't work out what had happened. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">suddenly, one of the parents flee in and sat on the bench next to me. He looked bewildered and stared at me in the hope I I would be able to do something about the carnage and revive his babies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He sat there for quite some time, looking down at his little darlings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My heart went out to him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There were many theories offered from neighbours and friends as to what might have happened. One being that magpies had raided the nest and dragged each little feathery chick out one by one. Apparently, it's quite common and they often collaborate with other magpies and form a military precision attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Erm...did I say I wouldn't do anymore seascapes? Anyone remember?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm sure I didn't. I mean, that would be silly, wouldn't it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure I said I'd 'probably' DO more seascapes. Yeah....that's more like it. *blushes, looks guilty and shuffles feet*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, as promised (?) here's another seascape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wasn't in the right mood to do the thing I'd planned for my painting today as this was calling me from iPhoto. It shouted SO loud - screamed actually - and when I saw which photo was making the din, felt sorry for him and let him out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's another one of my pics from the blustery day in Marazion when I wished it had been sunny and not blowing a gale. I'm SO pleased it was blustery!! I'm loving painting these. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WARNING: if you've feel you've read enough, then don't read on. BUT...you might miss something VERY.... scary. Your call. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*whistles and looks at watch*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well done for reading on! I promise not to disappoint. Get a cup of tea and get comfy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now... *rubs hands together and pulls chair closer to fire* </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I was brought up by the sea, we were taught at a very young age to not only respect the weather but to be able to 'read' it. It could be a matter of life and death. Yup! *nods head eagerly* That serious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Part of the experience at junior school was learning all about the Beaufort Scale. Oh my, what an utterly, utterly brilliant man Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort was.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, if you are a complete Philistine and have NO idea what I'm on about, Google it. Where have you been all your life? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Something appealed to me about the simple yet mundane descriptions he used to describe wind conditions on land and sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's an example of a 'fresh breeze'-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sea conditions = Moderate waves of some length. Many whitecaps. Small amounts of spray.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Land conditions = Branches of a moderate size move. Small trees in leaf begin to sway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm no poet, but it reads like poetry and my dream sequence would be for Chris Packham to be beside me on a river bank reading the Beaufort Scale to me from a dusty, leather-bound book whilst I reclined and sipped chilled champagne. (What do you mean, who's Chris Packham?) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It would help if he was also dressed like Mr Darcy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I digress.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Imagine if you will a young, fresh-faced fifteen year old, from an all 'gells' school, learning how to sail a dinghy with similar like-minded 'gells'. After a few months of tacking and such like we set off to Lyme Regis, just up the coast from Poole for a weeks adventure on the high seas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first four days were sublime, we tacked, we sea-canoed and had a spiffing time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the Thursday we woke to a heavy sky, the wind felt warm for the time of year and long waves were beginning to form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apparently, according to the adults the weather for the first part of the day was fine for dinghy sailing, and we believed them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me and Sonja, my second in command, set sail and once passed the safety of the Harbour wall, we could feel an urgent, slow tugging on the boat beneath the hull and a whipping through the sails. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Onwards we gaily sailed until we tried to go about. We could just see the tip of another sail in the far distance and realised all to late we were being taken out to sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Panic was not a sufficient word to describe how I felt. All I knew was that try as we might we couldn't make any headway back to land. Two teenagers, one dinghy and the widest, darkest, most determined ocean between us, our homes and families.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not a word was spoken between us, just a look, which was sufficient enough to glean how we both felt. I wanted to scream but for some reason didn't. Who would have heard me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We did everything it said in the text book and fortunately we were still upright. Just. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rhythmic waves swelled, heaved and tugged at our little boat, sucking us down into its valleys and obliterating the horizon for a spilt second.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was and still is the only time I ever truly feared for my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then suddenly, out of the darkness of the towering waves, we saw a boat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Heading towards us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At speed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Definitely towards us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And had I been compos mentis I'd have realised it was an RNLI lifeboat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It all happened so quickly. They came alongside, threw us a line and towed us back to the safety of the harbour. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jolly, understanding, softly spoken, kind men. Volunteers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not wanting to sound too dramatic, but they saved our lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a great deal to be thankful for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just a little offering today as virtually no time to paint.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did consider, for just a nano second, to cheat and post a painting I did last week, when I had a precious day off and managed to do TWO paintings. Then I thought, I'd only be cheating myself so what's the point?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So this is today's painting and it most definitely is a study.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite being only six and 7 years old, my elder brother and I were often entrusted with a short walk to the bakers to collect the fresh, just-baked bread on Saturday mornings and on the way home we'd nibble like mice on the warm crust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If any of the stale bread left in the bread bin wasn't used in various recipes like bread pudding, bread and butter pudding or turned into breadcrumbs, we were allowed to feed it to the gulls.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> We'd stand on the sea wall at the end of the garden and throw the pieces as high as we could to the gathering flock of rowdy, birds who deftly swooped and dived for the pieces, never once touching the ground.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ahhh...happy days.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not sure what style you'd describe this as, (by all means have a go) all I know is it's not my usual style and I've been wanting to experiment with it like, forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was one of the first things on my 'challenge' list for this thirty days thingy. now, happily crossed off, along with 'people'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sensibly, I've left it till two thirds of the way through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I deliberately didn't plan anything or even do any research as I wanted it to be completely spontaneous. No still life, no pre-mixed colours, no pre-anything. All out of my head. (Yeah, I know, it's a mess in there.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, I did my usual thing of painting a ground. Things don't feel quite so daunting when I've got a decent colour on the canvas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It felt like I should have a drink of three to 'loosen' up and be a little gung-ho. Unfortunately, the Moet and Chandon wasn't chilled enough so I settled with a sparking apple juice instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nothing came to me immediately so panicked and gave myself a good talking to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Surprisingly, it just developed from the geometric shapes, almost an organic process.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Geeze! Listen to me! Getting far too deep and meaningful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*slaps face a few times*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I have a another go (and there will be another) I'll try loosening up a bit with the champagne and let you know how it goes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BTW...I resisted adding a lighthouse.</span><br />
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JUST about had enough light in the twilight zone (yes, there really is such a thing) to take a JUST about good enough photo.<br />
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All I can say is thank God the lighter evenings are on their way. Which begs the question, why the heck didn't I do this challenge during the longest days? Nutter.....</div>
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1. To use a very limited palette - Payne's gray, raw umber, Naples yellow, raw sienna and a blob of something grey and mouldy-looking leftover from yesterday's painting.<br />
2. Perspective too, raised it's ugly head...*howls like an injured animal* something I try to steer well clear of.<br />
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Speaking of perspective, as I trained as a ceramicist many moons ago when<br />
folk thought the world was flat and the most popular mode of transport was a donkey, perspective didn't really come into the syllabus of throwing pots.<br />
I don't think it's something that comes naturally, though maybe some artists just have a natural eye, which I clearly don't.</div>
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I bought a book on perspective last year. (I mean it was reduced to 25p in my local library book sale and I thought it would look good on my shelves.)<br />
Dear god, I glazed over after 5 minutes, developed palpitations and had to retire to a darkened room with a stiff drink. Seriously, serious stuff that hurt my head - 'vanishing to 1, 2 and 3 points' 'imperfect infinite regression' (yup! it's real and I really DID regress into infinity), 'inclined planes' (Are we talking take-off or landing?) and - wait for it - 'confusing roof line'. Yeh, if I was a roof line I'd be confused, too.<br />
I did actually try one of the suggested 'simple' exercises (NOT) of 'drawing a colonnade of columns receding towards a single vanishing point' (had to copy this sentence from the book.) </div>
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Geeze! I had the headache from hell after 5 minutes, threw a tantrum, toys went out the pram and I might have blubbed a bit. (Read - a lot.)</div>
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It's written by a proper, proper living artist - John Raynes and boy do I love his paintings, a seriously talented artist I've admired for many years.</div>
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I wonder if he'd agree to giving me a lesson or two?<br />
Hope he doesn't mind a rather irrational, over-emotional, easily-brought-to-tears female blubbing on his artist's smock now and then...</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />I'd rather eat my own feet than paint/draw even THINK about adding people to my paintings.<br />Not only that, but painting people in a confident, sketchy way, just a suggestion.<br />I said at the beginning of this challenge, I'd be doing 'stuff' that pushed me to my limits...this goes WAY beyond that.<br /><br />One thing I DID note (and made me feel tons better) when I had my nose pressed to the Turner paintings the other week, was that his people (and animals) weren't works of art up close...just a daub and a a line here and there....a suggestion.<br />I had a knot in my stomach the whole time I was painting this.<br />(Wonder if Turner ever felt the same way?)<br />I'mSO glad this one is over....<br /><br />(Best viewed from 50 yards...as in Tate Britain.)<span id="goog_1613446807"></span><span id="goog_1613446808"></span></span></span></span>Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-64660960675565730492015-01-18T07:00:00.000+00:002015-01-18T07:00:00.307+00:00Gull's Rest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I once sat on St Ives harbour sketching the Herring gulls as they swooped menacingly within inches of those brave enough or foolish enough to eat out in the open. No one was spared. Not even the toddler who sat next to me with a handful of chips, minding his own business, when a herring gull sidled up nonchalantly, (they were more or less the same height) waited for his moment and snatched the chip out of the child's hand! </span></div>
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Earlier, I had spoken a word of warning to the parents saying the gulls were particularly vicious round these parts and they could have your eye out, never mind pinch your chips.<br />
One particular gull had a more than splendid vantage point sat atop of the ice-cream kiosk, eyeing up all likely passers-by and more to the point what they were carrying.<br />
He seemed to zoom in on a rather somewhat over-dressed lady who was mincing up the slipway in kitten heels and a pencil skirt. To all intents and purposes it looked as if she'd dressed for the office and forgotten she was going to the beach.</div>
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She waited in the queue completely oblivious of the beady-eyed character above her head. Once served, she re-traced her steps but this time concentrating on the ground in front as she minced back down the slippery slipway. I'm sure she was unaware that she held high the bulging ice-cream cones like two olympic torches, beckoning any hungry gull within half a mile. </div>
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The ever watchful gull timed it perfectly. He flew low and silently over the sand remaining a few feet behind his target, lined up an ice-cream in his sight and swooped in for the spoils, nabbing a whole ice-cream, cone and all.<br />
Needless to say 'Office Lady' was traumatised by it all. However, a spontaneous round of applause went up from the crowd on the beach, one assumes it was for the gull.</div>
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Juleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985978253524446996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248660477810137644.post-36657028852234211862015-01-16T07:00:00.000+00:002015-01-16T07:00:00.538+00:00Blue Sky Day<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm exactly halfway in my 30 day challenge and it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I'm into the rhythm of painting daily and surprisingly, much better at managing my limited, spare time. That's a bonus by the way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Don't you dare tell my OH. He'd make me apply it to all sorts like being on time when we're going out.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just know, if I'm honest, that if I hadn't told you lot I was doing it, I may well have slipped off the rails and umm....maybe missed a day or two. Who'd have known? Bit like a January diet, when no one's looking you pop into Costa's for a full fat latte and a chocolate muffin cos you've 'accidentally' left your hemp shirt and lettuce Ryvita lunch at home and NO ONE would want you to starve? Hmm? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's painting challenge was to loosen up a tad more. This was painting WITHOUT my specs on to prevent me faffing with detail, though I admit to sticking them back on to deal with the tricky headland thingy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><br />There's something special about having a new pair of shoes; smooth un-scuffed leather, shiny silver buckles and pristine never-walked upon-this-Earth, soles, all neatly tucked up in a blanket of crisp tissue and housed in their own box.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><br />After a couple of days of rough and tumble on the playground, scuffing against concrete-hard tarmac and rippled bricks, the novelty soon wore off. From then on in it was was a case of repairing the ravages of the day by sitting down with them for a regular spit and polish.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><br />My father, having been in the army, was a stickler for clean shoes and there seemed to be a regular round of shoe cleaning taking place in our home on a daily basis. They were then placed in a neat row in the hallway awaiting their various owners to claim them in the morning.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 20px;"><br />I have little pairs of children's shoes dotted about my home as objet d'art. They have a beauty all of their own made even more unique when you can feel and see the shape of the child's foot embedded in the leather for eternity.<br /><br />And what was today's challenge? It was basically to produce a painting of some description before the bewitching hour!<br />Jules xx</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #141823; line-height: 20px;" /></span><br style="color: #141823; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 20px;">I was completely inspired by my visit to Tate Britain last week to view the 'Late Turner' Exhibition. It's subti</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 20px;">tle being 'Painting Set Free' (as in a bird, NOT you'll get a free painting set. Okay?)<br />I admired his ability to 'suggest' something in a painting without going into any detail. I call it, being 'vague' - an art in itself.<br /><br />A squiggle to suggest an animal a rough outline to suggest a person in the foreground and from a distance they all told a story, close up (and I'm talking a few inches) it was a different matter. Someone said these lines were 'child-like' in there composition, and they were. But what genius!<br /><br />Now I'm certainly not setting myself up here as an expert, I know zilch. It struck me that it's not necessary to draw and paint every darn detail, just merely 'suggest' something.<br />I've never been able to be 'vague' or loose with my art. Vague yes, about dates, times, where I left something, how much I've spent on a pair of shoes or an art order etc. but not my art.<br /><br />I'm one of those who agonises over ever mark, hunched over the easel, procrastinating over every little thing. 'Painting whilst constipated', as a friend so aptly describes it.<br />After the exhibition I walked along the embankment towards Westminster Bridge taking photos. It struck me that Turner would quite possibly have taken the same route, sketched and even painted the same scenes.<br />I wanted to paint something to mark my visit, a nod to Turner - not in his style or a copy but inspired by his work.<br />This is as vague as it gets!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Seriously, you're gonna have to wrestle these oil paints off me at the end of this thirty day thingy. I'm having a ball.</span></div>
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I love Cornwall. Along with about 7 squillion other people and so did a great deal of famous artists - Turner, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth to name but a few. They knew a good thing when they saw one.</div>
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It's the light, the sea, the smell, the almost palpable sense of awe and wonder that attracts folk to this unique, heavenly-lit place. </div>
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Personally, I will NEVER get fed up of visiting and every year I take zillions of photos to er....keep. </div>
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Up until now, I've done very little with them. There's nowt wrong with them, they are all individual little pockets of inspiration for me. I've just browsed through them, reminding myself of a time, a place, a feeling, hoping one day, I'd get up the courage (cos that, ladies and gentlemen is what is required in this situation) to paint them.</div>
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The photo for this painting was taken a couple of year ago at Marazion (pronounced Mar-Az-Eon). I was a bit disappointed (an understatement) that the Sun didn't shine as we'd made a special, rather long excursion to see St Michael's Mount.</div>
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A wild Atlantic wind blew a storm in so strong, concerned parents had to hold on to toddlers to stop them being blown away. The waves raged and smashed angrily against the sea wall and the castle was all but obliterated by a blanket of grey, torrential rain.</div>
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Unperturbed, I sneaked round walls for shelter and snapped away. </div>
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It's not a perfect painting by any means, I went in too dark to begin with which is always a bit a tricky with oils. (That dang 'value' thang again.)</div>
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