Paintings...

Today I thought I would put a few photos of my paintings on here...back in 2003 I held an exhibition at at Cafe in Dunedin and sold 6 of my paintings, the profits from this essentially paid for my ticket (well, quite a bit of it) for our big OE...a year working in Dublin, Ireland.
I really enjoy painting and have my easel up in my "studio" aka spare room all set to go for some more painting. I paint what might be considered slightly strange things...animals in kitchens...and then more of a NZ native theme..my exhibition was called From Treetops to Tabletops and here are a couple of photos...excuse the quality ( can click on them to enlarge), but you get the idea.

My sister over at Poppies and Daisies has the large rabbit painting...the rabbit is her precious Merlin, who is a dear large old bunny. The one to the left ( in the photo above) and the one below both sold to a Lawyers office...I hope they enjoy them and that they are still hanging there!!

This painting sold to a man and his children, he wanted to buy in as a tribute to his wife who had recently died of cancer, I think it was going to be given to her workplace as a thankyou for all their support of her and her family. I am pleased it went to people who could see a meaning in it.

So..that is a wee sample of my paintings...I most like using colour and trying to paint animals...usually minus their legs (so head shots etc) as anyone who has ever attempted to draw an animal will know how difficult legs are to draw!! I have a donkey and a goat hanging in our house...never tried a dog...maybe Stellar will be my muse??

How is the Fatty Challenge going?? Pretty good...was very well behaved yesterday and went for a good long dog walk, resisted the urge to devour a king size Cherryripe bar that is sitting in the cupboard. Today was pretty good also though the evening is yet to pass. I even ran a bit on our walk today so that is remarkable in itself (and Stellar was most impressed)!!

That's it for now....

OH...haven't bothered to take nasty pants shot yet..too cold to get changed, I am sure you understand.