News - January 2012
New Work
I always look forward to this time of year when the air cools to crisp, the ground firms up and the horses who enjoy cantering go up a few notches on the smile scale. - Hmmm... think of steady canter being a wide smile, and quickety quick being a beaming wide grin with your eyes watering in the cool air and your heart pounding madly with the fun of it all! I think I am more of a temperate person than enjoying the heat wave that we just had. I won't complain though, because it means no heating bill!
I sort of missed a month of updates, thinking that I had let you all know that I am in the middle of designing some hair sticks for those of us who have it dangling below our ears. There will be three sizes. The small set will fasten hair that is growing from young ladies smaller heads. The medium hair stick will fasten up hair that is shoulder length or a bit longer, and the larger one will fasten waist length, or thick hair. I am still working on the Boho sticks and look forwards to posting them here.
They are all hand made, from shaping the wooden base, painting in lots of layers of custome mixed acrylic paints. Some have a metallic base, and others range from bright and breezy, to dark bronze tinted wood - a nice choice if you want a sort of 'chap stick'. Gentlemen with lovely long locks can look forward to a more engineered and structured look for their pins. It is so much fun that I have even forgotten to organise my new body of work that will be available from December. There are never enough hours in a day are there?...
I will photograph them and create a page when I have managed to get them all together. As usual, I am impatient and waiting for my paint to dry!
Happy painting everyone.
Jo-Anne
Forthcoming events:
Allerton Park, North Yorkshire - September 2011
Aldon Eventing, Aldon, Somerset - October 2011
Subaru Houghton International - May 2011
Aldon Eventing, Aldon, Somerset - March 2011
Blair Castle - application pending
The more recent blog entries can be found here...
Read my recent musings about pastel painting and a few spare thoughts.. JoBlog!
Read about my artwork in the current edition of Nature's paint box - a fantastic magazine available online.
There is something for everone that is interested in art and nature in this magazine - lovely photography, articles, tutorials, free wallpapers and much more!
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The Butterfly Saga
Early in February 09...
I was in touch with fab photographer Bob Jensen and in February, I was in the middle of painting one of his photographs of a lovely Gulf Fritillary butterfly. He has the most beautiful photographs of flower mantis, and one of my favorites - a fantastic green spider! Though work is very slow on this painting, I hope that it will show the beauty of the butterflys beautiful wings.
March - Gulf Fritillary - Still! Still! Still! in the middle of this one... Sorry Bob, it is a bit tricky!
September... I might have to try again on a different type of support to see if I can do a better job of this. Oh dear... feeling a little hopeless.
October... Now that it is late in the year I have decided to make a few notes about my inadvertent adventures, especially with this particular subject. I keep trying to get going, and somehow grind to a halt. I think I may have fluffed this painting! Photos at an even later date? Gah!
Please check out his site at www.bobjensenphotography.com You won't be disappointed and can see the things that I am at a loss to paint - for now....
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