We have been sorting out a selection of paintings from the recently published Orkney Book of Birds to release as greeting cards (they will be available for purchase direct from my website in the near future). There are fifty paintings in the book and it wasn't easy picking just twelve for the first range. Hopefully they will be popular and we will add to them as time goes on. One portrait card amidst landscape formats is possibly a display mistake though....but it stays!
Its been very hectic lately, with shops and galleries needing to be stocked for the season and various other spring necessities keeping me from the paint brushes. But I think it is all done for now. The garden is slowly coming to life and two of my favourite spring flowers are out in force - the Snakeshead Lily (Fritillaris meleagria) and carpets of primroses (Primula vulgaris). On the easel I have a new mini started and some flowers, plus a collie portrait in the planning stages. Its also the time for planting tatties....that's me in the hat and sunglasses; its a very dusty job!
Finally a big thank you to Rachelle Siegrist for passing along a Passion for Painting Award to me recently. Rachelle and her husband Wes have been so much help and an inspiration since I discovered miniature art a year and a bit ago. They are also two of the loveliest people around - if you have never visited their website it is a complete joy and their book is superb :)Happy Easter everyone !
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4 comments:
Great idea about releasing the cards, and I am sure they will be popular! I love the portrait one especially (lovely colours) :) Great also to see that spring is underway up there on the Islands. Let's hope that this summer will be a good and productive one for all of us. (Agree with all you said about Wes and Rachelle Seigrist - what a charming and talented couple.)
Thanks Lesley - yes, definately ready for some sunshine!!
Thanks so much Tracy and Leslie for the kind words! Rachelle replied to this last week but something must have went wrong with the submission. We both had to laugh at this photo since it looks like the barn in the background is sinking into your "peat bog"! We also were curious if "tatties" were what we call "taters" here in the hills of TN and what I guess most folks call potatoes? Thanks for posting the personal shot...it's wonderful to see what the area looks like around you!
Wes & Rachelle
Ha! Heddle's barn will never look the same to me again :) Yes- I meant potatoes; that's intereting you call them taters - they seem to have local names all over don't they? They were 'spuds' where I grew up in England!
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