February 18, 2016 | Books, How To, Paint Alongs
About 3 years ago I went to a business presentation and it was recommended that people who seriously wanted to become an influencer in their area of expertise (and I am very keen to get people connected to their creativity through success with art) should write a book.
A real, touch it, feel it, thump it on the table… book.
At that stage I had been running Paint Alongs in my studio for about 18 months and I had a repertoire of painting subjects I could call on.
So I put together a list of publishers who might be suitable for my market (beginner/social painters) and went about preparing submissions. The first publisher I contacted was North Light Books and to my absolute delight they got back in touch with me on 30 June 2014 to tell me they’d like to publish my book, “Painting Party”.
Since then there has been a series of deadlines to provide content and photos, while they went to work asking me questions, editing and designing. And lo and behold… it’s now available for pre-order on Amazon (cue stunned happiness).
I’ll have signed copies available closer to the publication date… very excited!
September 5, 2015 | Paint Alongs
Today’s Paint Along was my first group to paint my new composition ‘Lilies’ and it was SO.MUCH.FUN! Great conversation, champers, chocolates and oh, some painting too.
Check it out!
September 2, 2015 | How To, Paintings
I’ve filmed/timelapsed a few of the Spring Floral paintings that I’m doing this month.
They’re being released onto Instagram each day – $55 each. Today’s sold in 6 minutes flat – bought by someone to give to a friend that needed something to brighten their day – how nice is that?!!
Enjoy!
July 1, 2015 | How To, Paintings
I’ve been itching to paint a larger-than-my-usual canvas with a vase of bright flowers in it – so late last week I got started on it and timelapsed the whole thing, from wo to go – enjoy!
I’ll get this baby varnished and it’ll be available for sale at the Downlands Art Exhibition this August (and if it doesn’t find it’s forever home there, it’ll be online here after that!).
Another upside is after checking myself out from this angle, I’ve decided to grow my hair. There are always multiple dimensions to projects like this, don’t you think!
April 13, 2015 | How To
There are stacks of premixed green acrylic paints on the market. Here I compare NINE of them (oh wow!) and you can decide which ones you like!
Here’s a link to my sample sheet so you can download it for yourself. Please remember that colours may differ screen to screen and printer to printer, so please use as a guide only. (For personal use.)
