thank you for the nice comments…life is a bit complicated for me now and so I cannot paint as much as I would like. I can put crochet down at a moments notice but cannot leave a sky half painted…but I am still painting when I can…
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I have a relist today…a watercolour that is mounted.
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Thanks Stephie…Finding quality time for painting is difficult but I am still painting when I can and doing crochet in the bits in between…keeps me out of mischief (not)…ha ha…
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I can understand complicated although your version of it may vary from mine. It is why I will not accept commision work,one thing after another just makes deadlines stress.
Shame about your painting though,I don’t think I could master landscape the way you have.
Afternoon all. Not sure the pics do this piece justice the light is going now. But I hope it shows the fabulous textures, acrylic, pebeo, metal leaf and glass bead structure gel, this one is mounted (no glass) pic is 8x10,
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meatballs Max?!! Has your autocorrect been muscling in? 
It’s a lovely piece - maybe a photo at an oblique angle will show off all that texture.
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Omg hahaha yes autocorrect metal leaf 
, I’ll be taking better pics tomorrow so I can list it I tried the angle shot but light was too bad, here’s one of the smaller ones I did
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That looks very 3 dimensional, does it come forward of the box frame? Not very good English but I’m sure you get what I mean 
Here’s a new one from me
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Morning Stephie, I do know what you mean, it sits just inside the frame, took me quite a while to figure out the best way to frame them in the end I went for mounting to canvas board which I painted white to blend in and then just fitted the canvas board in the frame so the work sits forward but is still ‘lower’ than the edges of the frame, no idea if that makes and sense lol!
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Looking very good and the skirting fitted in very well.
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Newly listed
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Oo it’s nice to pop in and see so many wonderful Artworks. 
Keep up the lovely work everyone.
Busy working towards a craft fair at the moment. So I’ve not had loads of time to make, but here’s a little doodly Twinkle and Gloomy version of Alice liddell. It was her birthday yesterday. She was the little girl Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for.
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Good morning, love your gloomy Alice Lowri, good luck with the fair.
Great little landscape Stephie, love the colours in that one. I found some really tiny frames the other day may have a go at doing some miniatures again, not done any for a very long time.
I finally got around to listing one of my new pieces
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Good morning 
I’m stock taking this week - it’s a truly boring job but has to be done from time to time. I’ve found a LOT of ACEO’s that are not listed anywhere! I’m having a good think about my shop - the style, the photos, the writing etc before renewing my plus account in June.
Love that the textures in that Max, it looks like you had a lot of fun with it. @paperchainsandbeads
How was the fair / how is the planning of the fair going Lowri? @twinkleandgloomart
Good luck with that Steph. Your shop already looks great though. I did that myself a couple of months ago- when your shop looks extra shiny you feel more confident about it. I was ambitious and switched to white backgrounds! I loved grey backgrounds- but I found it really difficult to photograph my prints against it as it seemed to mess up the white balance even if I set it to that environment.
The fair went well thank you. I made a fair profit and had some lovely comments. I sold two of my new dollies and then one on Folksy in the evening. Now I need to pull my finger out and take stock to my stockists.
Oh- Ill add some art whilst im here:
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Good morning, glad to hear the fair went well Lowri, that one made me smile this morning :). Good luck with the stock take Stephie, I occasionally go through mine and always find something not listed lol! I’m looking at my shops too, daughter thinks I need to focus more on the handmade elements so I have been designing a new banner and working on a logo design, it’s not so easy lol!
just listed this one
The stock take went well, I had one listed that I couldn’t find (yikes) and a whole pile that seem to have fallen out of my shop somehow. I’ve also thrown a pile of ACEOs in the bin (!!!) and have tarted a few more up a bit.
This morning I’ve had a play with my photo style and am looking for comments over on this thread, I’m reviewing my photos, how do these look? I’d be grateful i you would pop over and let me know what you think
Looking forward to seeing your new banner etc Max, you’ve definitely got the electronic painting skills!
Lowri I think that’s possibly how my daughter feels after a good night out lol. It’s a shame the grey was difficult to photograph as it does make a nice background. I’ve struggled with grey too, I can’t make it consistent enough.
Great work James…nothing better than spending the day painting or doing any kind or craft.
Since 2006 I have sold over 2000 paintings.
I have a lovely artist friend in Oz and she gave me some good advice.
Love what you do and others will love it too.
I have earned my living from arts and crafts since 1972…and loved every minute of it.
I have taught at adult educations centres and love what I do.
I hope that you enjoy your journey too.
Here is my favourite painting…all done from my (vivd) imagination…
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I should have done like you, Brenda, and focussed on doing the arty stuff full time when I was younger, although I was always doing something creative, whether t was craft fairs at weekends, or voluntary art work (had great fun painting murals on the outside school walls with the kids when I volunteered at a primary school lol!) But too many hours were spent working for other people!
I’ve taught dance, drama and arts and crafts at various periods - great fun, but I couldn’t be faffed with all the insurance and paperwork etc now. I like teaching kids, and when I ran my drama group the CRB checks came in during that time, which I was able to get through work as I worked with the Youth Service, but I was quite gobsmacked that in 12 years only one parent ever asked me if I was Police/CRB checked!
I fancied teaching through Adult Ed (I did admin work for them, so had good contacts) but again it had got to the point where there was so much paper work, and at our LA (not sure if all are the same) it was compulsory to have a first aid qualification, and I hated doing first aid (I used to have other people as the first aiders for the drama group lol)
Could I be bothered to teach now? I guess it would still be fun, and it gives a more steady income if paintings aren’t getting many sales, but to be honest I just want to spend the time doing my own work now, and getting through my commissions list
Here’s one new one in my shop - I still have the original version of this listed, and someone wanted 6 like it, and I ended up painting 8 so that they could pick the ones they liked best as I did explain that I couldn’t exactly replicate the original each time
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