Red Flower/ Blue vase/ Acrylic by JENNIFER BLENKINSOPP

It's looking great Jen :D Welcome to The Artist and Leisure Painter site :D

Hi Jennifer, The blue glass vase looks great here. The way you can see right through it works well I think. Nice colours too. I wonder if those little blue stems at the top would be seen further down too. Perhaps not. Well painted mate.

Thankyou Chris for your comment, it is a impressionistic painting, the way I got to this is by leaning a large canvas on the wall, next to a clear glass large vase with dried flowers, , I was pondering what to do on this large canvas, then the sunlight from the window, gave me my answer when it mirrored the vase and dried flowers onto the canvas,-------- I then took it in photoshop and saturated the rays, then I decided to copy the colours of a old studio glass vase which I love.

Thankyou Steph, it looks a great site, I will take a more thorough look after the exhibition.

As I love this painting, I will answer you on here. I live in Minster on Sea, it's an Island - I don't know whether you know it. They have a large library in Sheerness on the island. I have the whole area to cover for four weeks. So, I shall be exhibiting 38 paintings. I understand how you feel about your paintings when they sell. I have felt the same myself. I have sold around 25 paintings in my short artist life. Passed my Art O level in 62. Didn't pick up a paintbrush again until 2004. When I was at Kingsway Day College, I was doing pitmans shorthand and typing, second subject art. Teachers there said I should be studying art (maybe they were right). I think it was my last job as a teaching assistant in the art department helping the students brought it all back again. How long have you been painting?

Hi Jeanette, I have been painting since 1990, started out with watercolour and joined my local society, which I exhibited with them, then learned all other media,s, I love all of them, but my favourites are oil, watercolour, pastel.-------------I have done realism to impressionism, abstract and contemporary, I still have a thirst and passion to keep learning, thats what makes it exciting.

No Jeanette I have never heard of it, which city is it near?

I live in Kent, we are Near Maidstone where I used to live - Also very near Canterbury. Like you I like all media, I haven't tried pastel yet. I have just purchased some. I shall try soon. Painters on Line has brought so many painters together. I think it is lovely. If you go to www.jeannetteharrisonart.com there are pictures of my garden on there also, a self portrait in Gouache.

Its wonderful gallery Jeanette,and your paintings are wonderful, your garden is lovely too, I peticula like the centre piece, what flowers are those?, afraid I am not a gardiner, but my husband is, we have a stone centerpiece like that .

Jennifer Im not sure whether you are talking about the centre pot or not, if you are. There are many varieties of plants in there. If you are talking about the gravel garden then there are many herbaceous perennials ie Rudbeckia, Shasta Daises many ornamental grasses and others. Thank you for your lovely comments re my garden. Speak to you soon. I have just posted Monet's Veranda in Oil. I did it in an Impressionist way!!

Hi Jeanette yes on the stone circle, I like the display, I will go and look at your painting.

Love the depth of colour