Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter weekend project

Quite pleased with this one. It's the largest I've done so far, and obviously there's still a fair bit wrong with it, but I quite like it. I'm going to give to my friend Lynda for her house in France (then it can "disappear" if she doesn't like it! lol). She bought me some tulips like this last week and the colours were so vivid I thought I'd give it a go.

Wish me luck, next project is a set of Russian dolls for my Sister-in-law!! Eek.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Bit of a turnaround....

Rubbish picture below that I was painting for a friend turned into this.....

Completely different canvas etc. I was given some Gerbras for Mother's Day so I thought I'd have a go at actually painting something proper iyswim lol! Instead of just drawing whatever I wanted on there like I usually do. It took ages, and I painted every single petal separately, but it was really good fun. I'm not sure I really like it, but I did enjoy doing it. My friend seemed to like it too. I'm still really rubbish at looking at something and translating it to paper/canvas well though.