Monday, 11 April 2011

DANCING WITH THE FAIRIES and IMPS of SPRING.......

.....  or painting with impish kittens .....  this is Muriel and she was determined to sit on my lap - or my palette.   She was rather put out when I stood up to work!


I think I said before that I always work best standing up - something to do with the energy!     


 SPRING IN THE ORCHARD   60 x 60 cm  oil/canvas  


This is the first time this year I have got my things outside - except for France of course!   It seems to take a while to remember how to organise myself - longer each spring!   I remember going out painting in the winter - painting the River Mole near Leatherhead and my boy friend of  the time anchoring my easel with rope to a brick to stop the wind blowing it away....  the canvas like a sail and turps spilling all over the palette!   My days of outward bound painting are over!   


But there is nothing like painting in the landscape and yesterday was a real gift -there were Chiffchaffs in the tree I was painting .....  and the swallows and woodpeckers .....  wonderful.   And then a good friend called round and we went for an evening walk.  What bliss!

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