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1. Bare Bottoms

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 7th Mar 2017

   A few weeks ago I decided to paint the back of my ceramics with just paint & splashes. It was great it saved me loads of time, I decided that this was how I was going to paint my ceramics from now on, I spent a day changing all of my website & I was away. 
   But oh no I can never make things too easy for myself. Now I have changed to drawing the design all around the pots with pencil then putting a colour around the bottom which is even more work. I can cope with that but when half of the ceramics come out of the kiln with drips & un-glazed bare paint around the bottoms it can all just seem too much. 
   I am driving myself & my hubby slightly mad by constantly changing, but I still love the coloured bottoms so I'm stuck with them forever or for a couple of weeks at least.
   

   

   

2. Spot the difference?

   Posted on 12:00pm Saturday 25th Feb 2017

   I take inspiration from wherever I can get it.
   I saw these silk flowers while shopping in Sainsbury's & they gave me the idea for this image. 
   I am rarely totally happy with my paintings and this is one of those. If you haven't spotted it yet I have already changed one of the lavender on the front to a poppy. But I think I will be doing some more changes before I am happy with the pansies on the mug. Bottoms up I think!

   

   

   

   

3. Brenda's Garden

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 21st Feb 2017

   I used my big sister Brenda's garden as inspiration for this painting. She is brilliant at everything she puts her mind too, especially painting & gardening. Me I struggle sometimes, as you can see from my first two paintings of a birdtable which I did a few years ago. I used to pipe the outline on with an icing bag, the first painting was too heavy, the second too simple, but my latest attempt I don't think I can get any better, just like all three of my big sisters.