ExperienceArt

The art exhibition on Friday night was a wonderful mixture of professional and amateur artists.  Alan's oil paintings are exquisite in their detail, although I can't say some of the subject matter is to my taste!

Now these, by Kaz Markham were very me.  I bought the one in the bottom left of this image :)  How cute are those houses :)  My sister bought the circular one!

I love the idea of this metal clock, going to have a play around that idea!

Sad I know but it was great having proper titles (and prices) under my canvases!

I sold my favourite painting on the night - the green one above.  

The 'joy' canvas above is one of my new favourites :)  The exhibition stayed up all weekend so I don't yet know if I made anymore sales.  The Mustard Tree charity is based in a large warehouse and when I was setting up, I decided that the stains on the floor would benefit from the artistic touch :)

Such  fun!!!  So if you have stains on your carpet, don't get out the Vanish, turn them into monsters instead LOL

my first exhibition - yikes!!

ExperienceArt

The Mustard Tree, Oldham Road, Ancoats, Manchester

7.30pm

The Mustard Tree do a fabulous job working with people in Manchester who are homeless.  Ten artists are exhibiting there tonight, including professional, established artists and those just starting on the journey.  We are each donating a piece to be auctioned to raise money for the charity.  

I was asked to contribute to the exhibition back in May/June but found the transition from art journal to canvas very, very difficult - my mind kept interfering!  Happily I settled into my 'art journaling' mood this week and just enjoyed putting paper, paint and ink onto canvases, not thinking about what others would think about it or whether they'd like it on their wall!  I'd happily put them all on my wall so ....:)

more journaling fun

Blogger wasn't playing ball for me last night, especially when adding photos, so this post is a day later than promised!

Besides mopping and sweeping (during our big paint) we had a couple more household chores that we turned on their heads during our weekend workshop at The Cubby Hole.  Ironing and sewing are so much more fun when you are doing them to paper rather than clothes ;), especially when the result is something like this:

little Sue's book

Suzanne's book

Tracey D's book

Nigel's book

Christine's book (unfinished cover)

I didn't get a piccie of Wendy or Carol's books unfortunately.

I mentioned on Sunday that we had journal prompts throughout the weekend, and my favourite was 'create a page with a hole in it'.  This is because ALL the designs people came up with were STuNNiNG!

 Little Sue's glittery butterflies

 Nigel's moth and dragonfly, created by putting some of the 'big paint' paper behind the die cut holes

 Suzanne's exquisite peacock, again using 'big paint' paper behind a circular hole; images by Elusive Images

 my 'spades' shaped holes in two pages to co-ordinate with the playing cards elsewhere in the book, and again featuring 'big paint' paper

Tracy's fabulous 'weird things' by Stampotique (i'm sure they have an official name but I don't know what it is lol) peeping through a circular hole

It's all go here at 'The Art of Moodling', I've had a workshop to teach this am, the prep to do for Port Sunlight on Saturday as well as finishing my artwork that'll be included in my friend Graham's exhibition.  Here he is telling you more about it but for those in the Manchester area, it is being held at The Mustard Tree, 7.30pm on Friday :)