Rather can give you an almost daily blow by blow account of the painting I've done for my Mum’s 80th birthday, I thought I would deliver it to you all in a single post as a fait au complet, outlining the stages I went through before the great unveiling !
Because it was much cheaper I ordered two (one and a spare!) 48” x 36” canvases from http://www.canvas-store.co.uk/ which arrived within two days of my ordering them, as did the set of Royal & Langnickel acrylic paints (£5.29) from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Langnickel-Colour-Acrylic-Tubes/dp/B001880N9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365961557&sr=8-1&keywords=Royal+and+Langnickel+acrylic+paint
However, when I went into The Works to get a palette, I saw this Boldmere starter pack of much larger tubes of acrylic paints for just £7.99, which was far more economical, and I couldn’t resist, especially as I now had two canvases to paint.
So armed and stocked up ….. I set to work ….. sketching the design out roughly first ….. ![Large flowery paint picture.1 Large flowery paint picture.1](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-V8wONoAEXWE/U8QfzEGKAYI/AAAAAAABAj0/Xgy4EODV7n0/Large%252520flowery%252520paint%252520picture.1_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
![Large flowery paint picture.2 Large flowery paint picture.2](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-i0QktGfLj74/U8Qf2QoFq8I/AAAAAAABAkE/SZ4CJfWj56o/Large%252520flowery%252520paint%252520picture.2_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
…. and then gradually filling the design in ….. the above only taking me a couple of very chilled hours while listening to Radio 4 on a Saturday afternoon.
![Large flowery paint picture.3 Large flowery paint picture.3](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uzfs6CYJElc/U8Qf92QAu8I/AAAAAAABAkU/BJxsFbWV03s/Large%252520flowery%252520paint%252520picture.3_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
![Large flowery paint picture.4 Large flowery paint picture.4](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-kGDNU1VWWos/U8QgGt3M9kI/AAAAAAABAkk/qDP_fQ7qCMU/Large%252520flowery%252520paint%252520picture.4_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
10 comments:
stunning helen work of art x your mum is going to love it such happiness in a piece of workx
your Mum is going to treasure this beautiful work of art, and it sounds sooooooo relaxing
Tilly
What a beautiful gift - it'll bring her summer all year round. Well done you and lucky mum
Wow, this is such a work of art. Absolutely fabulous! Xx
Wow that is so gorgeous - just love the vibrancy of it. You can't help but smile when you see it x
Gorgeous xx
Beautiful Helen, your Mum will be so pleasedt! Very theraputic to do too, I should think. x
Your Mum is a lucky lady. This is stunning!
she will love it fab big love marc
This is just stunning, a beautiful gift for your Mum.
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