Hello everyone. First of all, just assuring you that the blog isn’t changing, just changing the address from vintagefolkpainter.com to vintagefolkpainter.blogspot.com, which will unfortunately mean that to stay up to date with posts and content, you will need to go … Continue reading
Hi everyone. Have you all recovered and settled in after the Christmas break? I find at this time of year I can’t really settle into any big projects as my head is still coming down off the Christmas food high. … Continue reading
Whilst visiting the wonderful folk artist Catherine Holman’s blog, I discovered Vee’s notecard party. After visiting some of the participating blogs and viewing their absolutely stunning images, so evocative, so yummy, I wanted to join in all this Christmassy wonderfulness. … Continue reading
I am just a tad excited today. I’ve been wanting to show you this for a while, but have been kept too busy with my paper bead charity project – which is now over for another year. Which means, of … Continue reading
….and Fiona was dragging out bits and bobs of ornament stuff so her daughter could no longer accuse her of ‘spoiling Christmas’, because she hadn’t put a tree up. I thought I would pop in and share this photo with … Continue reading
Hi Everybody, Yesterday was a fun day, as I got to help my friend Kate set up a blog for her landscape painting. Kate and I have ‘folk art painted’ for over 20 years together, but Kate was originally a … Continue reading
Well, talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous! One day you are painting large canvases, the next you need the magnifying lamp to see what you are painting. The beauty of folk painting is that once you have … Continue reading
Hi everybody. The sun is out on this beautiful Autumn day (after a very dismal, soggy, wet and miserable summer here in Oz) and the sky is perfectly blue and sparkly. I promised myself that if I would get this post uploaded … Continue reading
Still continuing with practicing techniques and more on Norwegian folk art styles. I was still looking at Jo Sonja’s “The New Rosemaling Primer”, and thought I would use this page as my starting point. This is a particularly soft style of … Continue reading
Now, you are probably wondering ‘what on earth is she talking about – what do chops have to do with folk painting?“ Has she gone mad? No. Let me explain. Musicians practice to get a technique, or new musical skill, … Continue reading