Challenge Heaven Layout and a Painting

Layout
Here is a layout I have completed for the Colour Challenge over at Challenge Heaven. The colours we were asked to use are blue, green and orange and we had to use ribbon.
I love this photo of my two grandsons Lachlan and Benjamin playing in the early morning sunshine on Broadbeach, Gold Coast.


Oil Painting
At present I am working on a set of three canvas paintings. They will all be of the same type of plant, the Century Plant (Agave attenuata). I took photos of these plants which are growing in my garden and at first I was planning on just one painting but then my art teacher suggested that I do a set.



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Hugs, Irene xx

Last Painting for the Year

Every Monday I look forward to my Art Class. I have been painting for some 8 years now and enjoy the creative outlet as much as the social side. Gillian Cornish is a wonderful teacher and her talents span anything from silk painting, water colour, oils, acrylics and anything in between. The class is very informal with the students working on individual pieces of their choice.

At the end of each year, we are given a small challenge and our efforts are displayed at our Christmas Break-up. This year we were asked to do a painting from Arthur Streeton works and the medium was Water Colour. Now if anyone knows me, water colour is not my strongest point - I would sooner do Ice Sculpting LOL. So after some extensive whining by "the one who shall not be named", the medium was changed to include acrylics. And this is what I ended up painting.



Thanks for stopping by,
Irene