Key to Success

This is a still life I set up for an art class. Is Surrealism my key to success this week at Bayswater Road?

The icing on the cake

Three new artists joined the Bayswater Road Art Exhibition, I posted their receipt and newsletters today. Three new reasons to visit on Sunday!

Fantasy Fish

Today I have been drawing all my random thoughts. Tomorrow I will be painting them.

Look Out!

This photo was taken last year. I've always enjoyed the surreal, another artist at Bayswater encouraged me to hang the paintings like this, it wasn't my original intention hence two left eyes. I wonder where the owner of each of these have hung them! When I was in Las Vegas in April I discovered the work of surrealist painter Vladimir Kush, amazing and well worth looking out for.

Thirsty Work

Yesterday by 8pm, Waterloo was coated in a fine layer of empty plastic bottles. A bit like our lounge really. It's too hot to do much today. However I am planning a surreal series of pen drawings. Ever seen a floating strawberry milk shake?

Sundae

Loving the ice-cream weather

Sunrise

Drifting up and away
Carried by hopes and dreams
Wrapped in a sunrise blanket
Saying hello to today

Paintings drying in the sunshine. Happy with work, it means I can varnish tomorrow and have the afternoon off. Sunny days aren't the best to be selling at Bayswater surprisingly. When it's too hot Hyde Park is packed with sun worshippers spread over every square inch of grass but the road is deserted. Looks like I need to buy a sun hat for Sunday and keep my fingers crossed for serious art lovers.

Up and away

Today's task was cutting out hot air balloon shapes which I've pasted to canvas. They look fairly convincing, I've avoided the look of a light bulb or plectrum. Once dry I'll be doing a wash of colour over the top this evening. At this stage everything looks hopeful. I feel I'm really up and away with this series of paintings. Now to update website.

Watching paint dry...

It's 10am I've been up hours to prime canvas. At lunchtime I'm going to Ascot with my husband to have an Anti-D jab which will be a break and then it's back to do second coats. It's an exciting time for me as this is when the anticipation builds...what am I going to paint? On the other hand today, I am basically watching paint dry.

My first Blog!

I've been thinking for a while to start a blog. There are a few reasons but mostly to tell people about the Bayswater Road Sunday Art Market and to shame me into being more productive during the week. Today I've been chiselling out staples to remove canvases that have gone wrong from stretchers (36 total although I have only managed 7). In the past few years I've become more experimental as a painter.

As well as exhibiting I'm membership secretary for the Bayswater Road Artist Association known as BRAA. I've two new members receipts to post today which is good news. Am also looking to recruit new artists....

Bayswater Road on a Sunday