Blog four

BLOG WEEK FOUR

Had a brainwave this morning. I was running out of inspiration for my paintings and felt that I need to move to London for a change but then realised I could just spend a week there, get loads of photographs and come back here and paint them and try and sell them in an online London art gallery. Meanwhile, I have been inspired by a vase of gladioli that I got free from the food hub in Tenby. The flowers are gradually opening so I intend to do a few studies over the next few days. If it works, I’ll upload them here. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. I got an unexpected phone call today telling me that the introduction to photoshop course is happening after all. I hope I can improvise with the programme I already have as I can’t now afford to buy photoshop but I’m sure Edpixle is adaptable. Fingers crossed.

I’m off to the hub again to meet a group of artists to create murals and scapes for a children’s play area which should be fun AND I’m getting paid!!!!

I would like to start a Beryl Cook appreciation society and gain signature to have the art establishment officially recognise her. She did sell a lot of paintings in her lifetime but is seen as a popular artist because of the nature of her settings, namely fat people in bars and bowling greens for example but there is so much technique and humour, and as a friend pointed out the vibrant colour in her art.  Her work is very similar to that of an internationally recognised Columbian painter called Botero. Methinks it might have something to do with her being a woman?