Sunday 29 December 2013

Here's a free Calendar for January 2014

I've been thinking about doing a Calendar of Sketching William!   but for starters I'm going to do a month at a time and see what people think about it.   Instead of going through these photographic companies who produce your own picture I'm actually going to 'draw' the calendar dates with a sketch of William at the top for each month.

Soooo, if you want a copy I've (hopefully) added below the pdf  for you to copy and download yourselves.....this is technical stuff for me, so I am keeping my fingers crossed it works.

As I said, I'm only going to do a month at a time and see how it goes from there - this is the picture for January 2014.    Towards the end of January I'll do a blog post ready for February.


and here is the pdf link (just click the pdf word)






Friday 27 December 2013

A Lovely Festive time


Hope you have all had as lovely a festive time as us.  Rounded off yesterday by visiting our son who prepared a gorgeous meal for us all and hence we collapsed in a heap on one of his sofas...including a lurcher who couldn't decide if he was with his dad or me....


(I  'virtually'  added the Santa hat as a joke.....teehee)!!




Friday 20 December 2013

A Surprise Tea Party for Tracey



Today is a special surprise

for those of us who join into


We are having

this TEA PARTY

for you TRACEY


S U R P R I S E !


and I got William the lurcher to help with the painting -

he thought it would be fun to pose for his picture

and send you

ALL THE BEST WISHES FOR THE SEASON

WE ARE ALL SUPPORTING YOU AND WANT YOU TO KNOW

WE ARE THINKING OF YOU




XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX






 



Wednesday 18 December 2013

One full brush of paint

Ahh, the joy of a size 10 Kolinsky Sable..


full of delicious paint and in one sweep I attempted a very unrealistic donkey...

and waited for the paint to dry, then added some dark detailing

 -  quite pleased how this turned out, after all it was in one brush stroke 
(with no pencil lines to follow)  -

Of course, there are times when it is a complete disaster

- but I turned this next one around -

and call it    'Against the Storm'

Using tissue paper I wiped away the excess paint, then added the 'action lines'

the rest is up to the imagination!







Wednesday 4 December 2013

Not quite Wordless....Wednesday!



Time to sort those Decorations out - and start wrapping presents....Oh no! the wrapping is a job I so do not enjoy....

1.  the sticky tape seems to double itself up before I can attach it to the paper.

2.  I can never measure the paper properly and end up with a huge bunch of paper at the ends...

okay I could cut that back and make it less bunched....then I end up taking too much off and having to start again.

3.  I wrap something and forget what it was and have to unwrap it to check!

4.  The only sensible solution by then is to pour a glass of wine....

 ~ Cheers Everyone ~