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I am an amateur painter who hadn't touched a paint brush since school until 9 years ago. I was made redundant, and was glad as it enabled me to spend more time with my dear dad who was fighting his battle against cancer. Unfortunately he lost this battle in April 2004 and I started to paint. Oh how I wished I had started earlier so he could have seen some of my paintings, my mum says he would have been so proud. I started doing watercolour and went to a few classes, but couldn't gel with the tutor, he was too mush about himself. I was going with my close friend Sally and she was feeling the same, so when we saw a class for oil painting once a month run by Aden Art, we decided to enrol. This was it, they were so good, we had fun as well as learning the basics of oils, and I gained confidence in my ability to paint. I thank Annette and Adrian for all their guidance and help they gave me over the 2 years I attended their classes. I then went on to attending a few classes on a one to one basis for pastel painting as I wanted to paint wildlife and after looking at many at art galleries I felt the animals were caught just right in this medium. Right from the start I fell in love with the medium and found pastel on velour paper was a dream. I still paint all mediums and feel that birds I capture best in watercolour; land and seascapes in oils and wildlife and animals in pastel. I have a very understanding husband who doesn't moan when my easel is set up in the lounge for a while as it is too cold for the sunlounge, but that is where it will be in the summer as the light is marvellous. My aim is to approach the pets parlour and advertise in pet portrature adn hope that will bring in enough work to keep me painting the thing I enjoy most - or at least at the moment.

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Hi Ruthy hope your veggies are growing well...I love your butterfly

thus far..............no slugs have got to them yet.....maybe they don'y like curry herbs..........my runner have gone wild since i planted them out the other day......... thanks for your lovely comments on my butterfly its in pen and watercolour pencils...... been busy with my sketch book again......also i've nearly finished my canvas cover for my new sketchbook.............will post it soon...........

Hi Ruthy...another excellent drawing/painting...good luck with the garden...I'm itching to get mine sorted out but with howling gales & torrential downpours [not shown on the local weather forecasts] it will have to wait...

You have been busy but you will be able to eat the fruits of your labour......hope the slugs etc don't get them before you do.........Love the butterfly painting.......ABSOLUTELY SUPERB

Gorgeous butterfly drawing- all the rain makes the weeds grow like the jungle, yum, yum, home grown veg & they're fun to nurture too!

What a busy bee you are........ thanks for your messages Ruthy. X B

just watered my toms taday........am worried about my rubbard its not looking so good...........lost a leaf............hearbs i planted at weekend are looking fine......I finally got a curry hearb it smells lovely.........am thinking of growing some strawberrys but will see how these lot fair .............. never grown much of my own before...................but haveing a huge garden and alot of lawn to mow.... thought why not loose the some of the lawn and give it a go...............grew tom's last year and cuccumber..............and it was nice too know i'd done that.................but think i may have bitten of too much this year......but hey its good fun......... some amazing leaves to draw......and is very relaxing....gets rid off the stress of work

Hi Ruthy how busy you have been but then there's nothing better than eating home grown food is there...Hubby does it all around here these days...our citrus fruit will be ripe in a few weeks so will take a picture...nothing you said Ruthy...

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