Well the most exciting event this week has been the birth of our second grandaughter, Beatrice Elizabeth. How lovely is that.

Painting - well I managed to mess up a watercolour I was doing, so have reprepared the background.  Hopefully at art this morning, I should be able to progress on that.

Christmas almost upon us, and tomorrow I will go off to Cowes to get that bird!

Not a huge amount happening.  I did another oil painting, which I didn't post last week as I wanted comments from the girls at the RVYC.  Well after speaking to them, it was suggested that I up the autumn colour a bit, so here it is...

Hope anyone looking at this, likes it.   I prefer it to the other autumn one I painted, but everyone else prefers the previous one!  No pleasing is there!

We were supposed to sail to Gosport this weekend, but due to the unsettled weather, the event has been cancelled.  Looks as though we will have to make our own entertainment then....

This weekend we went to Witney to see Daniel, Catherine and Alice.  I didn't go to art on Friday so missed the oil painting workshop, which I will have to catch up on this weekend.  It was a lovely weekend, although the weather was pretty awful and the traffic equally bad!  However, Alice is so cute and really growing quickly.  Catherine and Daniel were equally well.  Lots of events were packed into the weekend but I must confess to seeing Father Christmas (the real one!)

Well there you go old chap!  Make sure you bring the right stuff down the chimney....

We stayed in a lovely B & B - Gorselands Hall. 
Back here, and it's back to normal.  Perry is still working on installing the fridge in the boat - almost there.

Well again a rather uneventful week.  I finished the oil painting, but was very disappointed with it.  It just didn't turn out how I expected it to.

Very rough and ready.  However, I  have started another one, allbeit a little smaller, and when I go to our next workshop session hopefully I may achieve what I wanted.  Still the workshop is not over, so I have a bit of time on my side.

Perry is still working on putting the fridge in the boat, and reports look as though he may now be half way through the work.  Fingers crossed.

Definitely not a lot happening this week.  The oil painting workshop was not quite what I thought it was going to be, far more "expressive" than I normally paint.  Had a couple of days trying to get the first part of the painting sorted.  Not sure if I like it or not yet, still hopefully will get some sound advice on what to do next to it, when I attend the workshop on Friday.

Perry will be back from France tomorrow.  Bertie has been really fed up with just me.

Another week of not a lot happening. Weather has also been a bit naughty so when it's sunnywe take advantage and have a nice walk.  I've been carrying on with the oil sketching, but then it got a bit messy, so I'm giving it a rest for a few days.

Here are the oil sketches, but as you can see from the fourth one, it's all starting to look a bit messy.
  So, yesterday I started to move on to watercolour.  Working on flowers at the moment.

Quite fun, but still needs some work.
Perry has been working frantically on the boat and is now on the project of fitting the fridge.....
Bertie has been quite sprightly the last few days, so fingers crossed on that one. And I have been making soup and a couple of disastrous cakes!
On Friday I am on an oil painting workshop again, this time autumn colours - my favourite subject.

Not a lot been happening this week.  Went on a knife painting workshop which was brilliant.

Not the best photos, I know, but I was really pleased with them.
Went to Quarr Abbey, one of Berties favourite walks.
Have enjoyed carrying on with knife painting, and made some oil sketches.

Again photo pretty poor, but I am sure the gist is there.