Day 17

As promised ...another lamb.  This time with it's mother.  I found it really hard trying to capture the playful skip as it ran beside her.....

Sheep Painting a Day 17,  April 17th 2013

Day 16

Loving all the lambs. Walking out a couple of days ago I came across a group of sheep with their lambs just grazing contentedly, while the lambs gambolled happily, totally unpeturbed by me and my camera.  I have decided to paint lambs for the rest of the week. Starting with this lamb portrait.....

Sheep Painting a Day 16,  April 16th 2013

Day 15

Feeding time......

Sheep Painting a Day 15, April 15th 2013
 

carol's latest venture: the beginning

My good friend Carol has started a new venture.....Best of luck Carol.....I love these mugs, and think everyone else will too!  carol's latest venture: the begining: I'm very new to this blogging lark - along with a lot of "computer" stuff - so bear with me My latest venture - I seem to com...

Day 14

Two weeks completed.  Love this motley crew. They stood for absolutely ages while I took pictures. 

Sheep painting a Day 14,  April 14th 2013
 

Day 13

Lots of lambs around at the moment.  Hoping to get quite a few done throughout April.  Planning a walk out with my camera tomorrow.  Anyway here is three little lambs to be going on with ......

Sheep Painting a Day 13,  April 13th 2013

Days 11 and 12

Catching up.......

Sheep Painting a Day 12, April 12th 2013

Sheep Painting a Day 11,  April 11th 2013

 

Internet issues seemed to be sorted so I am going to have a bit of a postathon with all the missed days. So here are Days 8 to 10.....

Sheep Painting a Day 10,  April 10th 2013

Sheep Painting a Day 9, April 9th 2013 

Sheep Painting a Day 8,  April 8th 2013

 

The lurgy beat me........well not quite.......I did manage the painting.....just!  What I had no energy left to do was blog.  So here they are, the last 4 paintings of week 1 of my challenge........

Sheep Painting a Day no 7.  April 7th 2013
Sheep Painting a Day no. 6.  April 6th 2013

Sheep painting a Day no. 5.  April 5th 2013

Sheep Painting a Day no. 4.  April 4th 2013

Really thought that this wasn't going to happen.   Typical that On the day I started I came down with some sort of "Lurgy".  Today I thought the lurgy had beat me, but copious amount of tea, and a nice warm fire revived me.  So here it is Sheep Painting a Day 3, April 3rd 2013, "Grazing Sheep"......

Sheep portrait a Day number 2.  April 2nd 2013 "Spring Lamb".........Struggled with this one, but I am quite pleased with the result.

I love my old Palettes

Today was time to change my palette, the paint had dried up and was stopping the moisture underneath from keeping the acrylic paint workable.  I love my old palettes and save them to incorporate into some of my bigger paintings. 

 

So here it is.....my very first Sheep Painting a Day.  Meet "April Fool"

 

Painted in a warm stress free environment with love.

Stress is building though, after trying to upload a photo to my Etsy shop for the last hour......

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"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance".....japenese proverb.  I think April Fool's day is the perfect day to start my challenge!

STARTING TODAY!
I have set myself the challenge to paint a sheep ACEO painting a day for the next year. I'll be starting this TODAY........watch this space! 

A brand new start.

Well... I made what may have been a rash decision and decided that as the last post on this Blog was 2007, I would put the lot on ice and start again. Since deserting my blog I have not been unproductive. I have taken on a studio in an old mill in Stockport, where I have been for the last few years.  Because the space was much larger than what I had been used to I grew .......or rather my paintings did.  I love having the space to work on larger paintings.......BUT.....in the winter it is soooooo cold and I missed making the little miniature art cards, that I used to make.  So, recently I have set up a mini studio (a folding table), in my cosy floating home.  I light my stove and sit in the warm,  painting tiny 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch paintings.  I haven't deserted my lovely studio, and will be back there as soon as the weather improves, but I don't think I will stop painting these addictive tiny paintings this time.  I will keep my fold up table handy.

I bought some gorgeous little easels to display my ACEO's......

A few days ago I was featured on customer spotlight of the day by one of my suppliers.... http://www.photopaperdirect.com/blog/?p=944customer

Still excited and trying to think if there is anyone I haven't told yet!