Love it. You achieve amazing things with coloured pencils.So detailed.
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Helen, that is stunning…
Today I have another cartoon to replace the one that sold. I don’t sell prints, so each one is individual and slightly different.
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https://folksy.com/items/7191311-hand-painted-original-cartoon-Knitting-card-ref-F-550-
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Hello Brenda,
I have really enjoyed looking at your cartoons, they are all very like-able and jolly looking. 
I just came across this thread and thought I would pop in and say hello to you and everyone else who pops by.
I am new to Folksy and only currently have a few items listed in my shop, still finding my feet!
Here is one of my hand crafted pendants I wanted to share…
I would really appreciate any feedback on my items and/or shop if you get the chance to look, I hope to list more items soon.
Thanks Brenda
Maria
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Welcome Maria…love the shop name…I love clever names…I will explain Gweddus again one day (and teabreaks…which isn’t quite what people think…lol)
share some of your paintings on this thread too…and always welcome to just chat with us fellow artists…anything goes…(well almost ha ha)…
today I have a painting, on the witch theme.
My daughter is in Italy on holiday so I have a week of ME time…getting loads and loads done…and lots or painting time…watch this space.
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https://folksy.com/items/7192075-original-acrylic-art-painting-witch-ref-F-552-
Hello Maria!
Your pendants are really original, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like them. I do like your illustrations, too. I think a few more items in your shop would be good, people like to see a well-stocked shop. Best of luck
Helen
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Hi everyone, its great to see lots of activity and creation in this thread, lovely work!
Here’s my Sunday morning painting, Pheasant, A4 watercolour.
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Lovely picture @GKWatercolourArt.
I have just finished one but will post it tomorrow. Don’t want to miss Doctor Who and Strictly!
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Great to see more activity on this thread…I started the thread a lot of years ago and it was beginning to dwindle…now we have some fab artists and lots of nice chat too…
Graham that is very pheasant…( ha ha)…wonderful work.
Looking forward to your painting today Chris …and waving to Helen, Maria and anyone else…
Where are you Stephie?..ah yes, training a new guide dog…pop in when you can !!
Today I have gone all floral…with acrylics.
I am not good with acrylics, I get more on ME than on the paper…I just struggle to get to grips with them. However, Kelly (daughter) is away on holiday and I have ME time…so I am trying to use up some of the hundreds of tubes of paint that I have (yes hundreds)…before they dry up…they will be like me then ha ha.
SO…here is today’s offering…
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https://folksy.com/items/7192542-Acrylic-floral-painting-ref-F-553-
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That’s another good painting. You are very versatile @teabreaks. You have a style (and type of paint) for every occasion!
I used to paint in oils but was impatient with the drying time and the house stank of turps. (Though it was easy to cover/scrape off my mistakes!
Since I took up watercolour, I am hooked.
I haven’t tried acrylics.
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Hi everyone :slight_smile 
Love seeing all the new work on this thread, well done Brenda for keeping this thread alive and well.
Thought I’d just pop in and share my latest painted stone, hoping to do some more work this week, if I do I’ll pop in to share.
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I’m far too impatient for oils too, I just can’t wait long enough for it to dry and then I end up covered in paint from leaning on the canvas.
I normally use acrylics but once someone specifically asked me to do a commission in oils… the smell of the paints and cleaners made me feel sick the whole time I was doing it 
Not touched them since.
Acrylics have the same useful ability to cover, but you have to be very quick with your blending. I can’t paint backgrounds on hot summer days because it’s dried in a minute so I can’t blend anything properly.
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Hi Tina @DaisyWings, your stone is beautiful I do like the autumn colours.
Brenda @teabreaks I have the same problem with acrylics, more on me that on the paper! You do end up with a lovely painting, though, I wish mine came out that well. You have mastered blending the colours - I end up with various shades of mud. Still, I have a play with it every now and then when I need to stop getting fiddly with my pencils.
Another listing today - on with the floral theme:
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Thank you so much Helen 
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I dislike acrylics Chris but have been given literally hundreds of tubes of them, so I am trying to learn and use them up…much prefer watercolours…if you could see the painting I did today…must have about 8 layers of acrylic paint kept covering up the mistakes…as for oils…can’t abide the smell and it always baffles me how people pay higher prices for oils…no idea why…I WILL get to grips with acrylics…I WILL…lol
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just loving those colours Tina…beautiful work…
Kim…I get paint everywhere…when it should be on the paper…it gets in my hair, on my clothes…aaargh…
Helen if only you could see under the layers…ha ha…I hate throwing anything away. the painting I did today, started life as a watercolour with flowers,…rubbish,so I painted over it…rubbish…covered it with acrylics…more rubbish…then more acrylic,…more rubbish…ended up covered in glitter…ha ha…
Thanks for the pinning Chris…I have yet to get to grips with Pinterest, or any of the other things…I know how to pin on my own board and save something I see onto one of MY boards, but after that I get lost. I once created a folksy board but it just disappeared !!!..
I have done two paintings today but will share them one at a time because I am on the daily listing thread, so space them out a bit…guess what tomorrow’s painting is?..and no it doesn’t have glitter on it…
Chris, that is a fab painting, I can’t do non living things…
Helen, how do you get such beautifully intense colours from pencils…I threw my pencils away…well gave them to an art group…oddly, when I was at school, using pencils was my favourite because once I put paint on.I ruined everything…might have been something to do with the fact that school paintbrushes were huge and we only had powder paints, pencils or charcoal…
@DaisyWings, @teabreaks, @GKWatercolourArt, @HelenCliffordArt, I have pinned your recent postings to my Folksy Art pinterest board.
Keep up the good work!
I’ve just accepted the paint getting everywhere now, I don’t leave anything important too close to my work area in case it gets splattered (because everything eventually ends up splattered), and always wear my old clothes for working.
It’s not too bad when I’m onto the detail, but yes, doing the backgrounds always seems to be messy.
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I have to keep my art room door closed when I have work on the go as it is also my cats favourite room, where he has the best vantage point to survey the activities of other cats. I assume that’s what he does anyway. Failure to do this would result in extra embellishments in the way of paw prints. Perhaps it would improve it!
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Thank you, Chris. Have to admit I’m not on Pinterest myself so can’t return the favour - I can cope with FB but keeping up with one social media is enough - so thank you!
Brenda, the trick with coloured pencils is layer and layer, they blend until it’s a little like painting. I love them because theres no mess and they stay where i put them on the paper, perfect for me.
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