The Royal Oak

I live in an English village - and we have a village green with a church and a pub on it :)

I've already painted St Nicholas Church and now I have made a small painted sketch of The Royal Oak - the public house on the green.

The church dates from the 12th Century and the pub from the 17th !
I, of course, am nowhere near that old :)

The Royal Oak

A Happy Girl

I made contact with Sarah from BuddhistMusician Accessories and asked her if she could make a "jangly" bracelet for me to wear.

The reason for this is my dog's eyesight isn't the best at night so I thought if I had something that made a tinkling sound, she would know at all times that I was nearby.

Sarah made this bracelet and matching earrings for me - I'm a very Happy girl!






and here is the bracelet in action, I jangled it in front of Missy - and she was curious as to what made the noise!

Tuggy!

On a grey day, Missy loves to play indoors.
She's not one for walking in the rain, she's miserable if you make her.

She'd much rather be indoors playing Tuggy with daddy!



She's an absolute joy of a dog. She is feisty - which you'd expect from a jack russell bitch, but she knows to stop, when we say.
In fact, before we ever played tuggy we taught Missy the command "drop".
So now we can play tuggy knowing we only need say drop and our darling girl will drop and then sit, looking at us eagerly for round two!

Dive!

I was going to do a stage by stage, but somehow got carried away and finished the painting all in one sitting.
The impatient ones amongst you will be happy :)

Here's the finished painting: Dive!



This painting will be added to my permanent gallery site
Pat Elliott Paintings

Penguin

A jolly good friend of mine, Becks, went on a trip to Colchester Zoo.
She very kindly let me choose from amongst her photos any that I thought would be useful for painting purposes.

From one of the penguin photos I picked a couple to draw - the first was made into the painting Charlie's Angels

and here's the second drawing:

random musings

I've been thinking.
That's the point hubby usually runs for cover :)

and what I was thinking was this - that maybe I will have a Guest Spot every now and then on the blog.
That way we could get to know someone just a little better.
What format to use though? A question and answer session? Or just a here it is, you've got 100 words and one photo to tell us what you love in your life and your creative life?

Could I do it? Here's a random attempt.

In my life the most important things to me are not things, but living beings.
My husband, my friends and my dog are all up there in the top slot.
I'd move heaven and earth if I could for any of them

In my artistic life, watercolour is important to me.
I dabble a bit with sketching, pen and ink and drawing - but they are usually only means to an end - a watercolour painting. I love the expressive freedom of water and paint swirling together.

This photo shows my two great loves: Paul and Missy





Done, in just under 100 words!
Now, I wonder if anyone out there would like a Guest Spot?

Gorilla Giveaway!

Gorilla Giveaway

Original watercolour painting
7.5" x 5.5"

This original watercolour will be given away to one lucky person.
To be in with a chance to win this little fella, you need to do two things only.

1) Be a Follower of this blog. (old or new, no difference)
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2) Leave a comment on this post.
(Click comments at the bottom of this post)

Tell me what you like - or dislike - about this blog and/or my gallery site, Pat Elliott Paintings.

You have a week, before the Winner is drawn on the 8th March, 7am GMT.


Its my small way of saying "thank you" for your continued interest.

Good luck
Pat xx