Sunday 29 April 2012

Between the April showers !




As the sun was shining so nicely we thought best get out quick and do some painting ...  so wizz to Bosham ,low tide , such fantastic light and colours .
Joel and Mike go to the Oxmarket and look at the space in the Wilson Room where his exhibition will be . Mike photographs the space so he can make a virtual gallery for Joel so he can work out how to hang the show as he'll be in Dialysis on Monday.  Then Elisabeth and I can collect the paintings on Monday morning and hang the show , Joel and I can do the lables and pricing on Tuesday a.m. and we'll take the laptop to access this blog on. Lets hope its dry on Monday morning !

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Gearing up for show at Oxmarket

We've sent the invites out via wonderful Pallant House and Partners in Art , took ages to compile all the correct times and dates and infomation for 3 different venues download the Lottery Funded Logo and make sure that was in the right possition on the invite and put the blog info on, then send it to Marc Steene at Pallant and it was send out on their mailing list ! Result !  All quite stressfull actually !
The invite is being printed at Procopy down the road and will get flyers done too to hand out and put in local library's , tourist infomation, Pallant House, and all related venues...


Wonderful lillies from Chichester Yatch Basin



Joel very pleased with this £3 purchase from Squires closing down sale !

Magnolia's in Joel's garden

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Barbara discussing the colour Joel's using , the greens not quite right , he's possibly adding too much white.



Why has joel gone back to using the pallet knife on this canvas ?...its just not working !

Looking at the original Lillies Painting , and trying to get Joel to use that same technic in the larger painting , it worked so well.
Barbara has been amazing she wizzed over to help Joel at the last minute yesterday dispite having to fly out to India today, and sort her own work out for her show opening in Arundel at the Zimmer Stuart Gallery at the end of the month. They discuss the original lillies painting and Barbara feels Joel needs to refere back to it as he seems to have lost his way a bit when painting the later canvas' , the greens have too much white in them and he needs to bring in the wonderful magenta . Basically be brave and just Go For It !