My First Art Sale

Today was my first time helping at the sale at Cuckoo Farm, its not paid you help for free :-) . Hazel was there to help me learn the ropes and we had great fun. Quite a few customers and we made some sales too. Even better I sold two of my boxes and some cards.

Two ladies from my art class turned up and they bought the boxes. They are coming back next week so I hope the stuff at the framers is ready by then.

Any way a few pictures so you can see what the sale gallery looked like.

Fun With Acrylics Art Class

Wednesday evening, my church hall I taught an art class, Fun with Acrylics. Eight people came ages 13 to 70's, some painters, some not. We had great fun, they are all coming back next month too, so I think it went well. Here are some of the results.

Acrylics, painted with foam pads and tile grout scrapers. Once dry we cut them up and rearranged the pieces in the mounts. Some swapped pieces with their friends. I think the results are brilliant.

Cuckoo Farm Studios

The great Winter Lights Sale is on 13/14th and 20/21 Novemebr check it out here. http://www.cuckoofarmstudios.org.uk/content/whats

I shall be selling some of my cards, boxes and pictures here for the first time. Today I took them over, Molly my wee staffie came along too. We stayed a couple of hours to help with sweeping floors, washing display shelves and stands and then painting. Molly was a real good girl and made friends with all the artists that came along to drop stuff off. It was great fun.

Hope you can come along there are some great items for sale.

MOLLY'S BURBERRY JUMPER

I just had to buy this for my Staffie Molly. She suffers with the cold, having a thin coat. This is a wee bit tight so next one I have to get the bigger size. But she just looks cute.

WEDNESDAY CONTEMPORARY ART GROUP OCTOBER

Lovely time at the CAG today, Julia did a drawing exercise and I am pleased with my efforts, pictured above. Cherry bought us all Christmas Cake, there goes the diet.

Eve and That Apple Tree and Three Objects in Red and Black.

After the group I went into Sue Ryder charity shop and got just the right fabric and base for the Sewn collages. Emily in Birdland, is made from all recycled or left over materials from other projects. So its not cost much. The birds are again from those given to me by my friend Fi. I've done another one for Zoe too.

Starting a Journal

A group of my friends from Loving Mixed Media, this is a link to my page http://www.lovingmixedmedia.com/profile/JoanGlenMartin are doing Journals. We plan to do so much then swap them around and do some work in each others, then pass them on again.

We hope it will be fun and we can do some new ideas, add to each others work etc..

This is my front cover. Then a collage of all the business cards I collected at the Essex Art and Design Fair in October. I met and talked to all those interesting people. That's the inside front cover. It will be interesting for the girls in the USA to see who is around near me.

Flu has gone at last, just a bit of a cough now. I hate being ill. Molly has hurt her leg, so we have had a vets visit. She is on 3 months house rest, injections, which I get to do and pills. More bills. Hopefully this works then she won't have to have an operation.

Starring the Mad Birds

Hey here I am again back in 1950's land. Now the Mad Birds have got in there with me. Some have even been brave and are modelling their bikinis for you.

When I was sewing this batch I noticed that some of the captions could apply to two cut outs. So you can see this on the Mademoiselle Letter picture. The Little Mouse could be Mademoiselle too! I will look out for more of these in future, that theme works for me.

I must get Fi to do some more of her cats 'n' birds these have worked so well. She's still not seen any of them yet as I am still not well. Now the flu has left me with a chest infection., I am wheezing like and old pair of bagpipes!!!