Some alla prima indoor art at Arlington

Had a great day at Arlington Court yesterday - not my usual plein air painting in the grounds, but this time setting up my easel in the bookshop - Arlington have been fortunate to have been donated a large collection of Art related books for their shop, so it made an opportunity to have an Art in the Bookshop Day.  

Worth all the prep work and meeting some lovely visitors - plus painting an alla prima piece. This little blue chair is part of the collections at Arlington, so it was a good opportunity to paint an Indoor scene for a change. I have also Donated a collection of my artworks to Arlington, which will be on display for purchase (see images). Many thanks to the staff at Arlington for their support, you are very much appreciated 🎨

"Little Blue Chair" artwork : Oil painting 8x8inch box canvas

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hopefully the above paintings will help raise money for Arlington Court

(note: I donate 75% of the raised funds to Arlington and 25% will help me buy more canvases and paints)

Art Exhibition last weekend

I'm pleased to say it was a SUCCESS

@ Arlington Court

We had around 250 people through the door and a lot of those people stopped to chat to either myself

or Graham and, of course, William blog🔗

Sold some paintings and raised a substantial amount of money for Arlington, specifically towards
 the Boudair Silk fund (moths and bugs are always trying to chomp their way through it, hence it needs saving)

on the first day, Saturday, we had our daughter Lil and little Hamish helping out too

before the doors officially opened, I was preparing a canvas

the large painting Sold.....hope it went to a good home

when my back was turned, Lil flipped the painting over and Graham posed for the camera....
Lil didn't tell him the painting was upside down!!!

and

 I completed the painting later in the day it SOLD
(it was the correct way up by then)

the painting on the windowsill was moved onto a table-easel-stand later in the day, when a
landscape had Sold

 at the end of the second day, I had made inroads with the next painting,
this will be completed at home

Yes, we did have a lot of visitors honestly,
but didn't take photos of them purely out of courtesy.


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Looking forward to this weekend.....

Yikes, what was I thinking!

Hopefully, I'll be doing a painting whilst there

(as pre-planned and mentioned in my last blogpost)

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