Last weekend was the third of four in this year’s artists open houses. The weekend got off to a terrific start when, before I’d even managed to start painting, someone came and introduced themselves to me. He explained that he and has wife had visited on the previous weekend and that they’d been completely bowled over by my paintings. Knowing that I was going to be painting again at the weekend, he’d come back to meet me and say hello, before proceeding to buy three of my paintings! It really was he most wonderful start to the weekend!
Here’s one of the paintings that will be flying the nest when the exhibition comes to a close!
This set me up quite nicely for a wonderful day of painting! As I was there for the day, I’d already had it in mind to do two paintings, one in the morning and one in the afternoon?
Here was my first effort of the day, a revisiting of a view that I last painted some years ago:
The afternoon saw me tackle this vineyard view, based on a photograph that I’d seen on instagram by the great watercolour artist Ari de Goes, who also kindly gave his permission for me to share this painting.
All in all, it was a wonderful weekend of painting and chatting, and chatting and painting – crowned with a wonderful selection of sales!
This coming weekend is the final one and, to make sure I’m there to see it out in style – I’ll be painting again from 2 – 5pm. As ever, it would be lovely to meet any readers of this blog should you find yourselves in the vicinity with some time on your hands!