Strada chllenge january 2024 and some tatting

 

I am nearly up to date now with recording my art since I moved over to Instagram and stopped using this blog. Instagram could disappear and this is a good record for me.The last post on this group was the orange and yellow cups painting which did disappear on instagram. my fault I think but it made me think. I am in France now and its cold and the beginning of April 2024 and I have just had good news. more in the next post.

Strada Challenge 2023

 

The Strada easel challenge provided motivation for September 2023. Painting every day for a month.

 February .. I just had to paint a landscape after a month of painting still lifes for the Strada Easel challenge. I was till indoors in lockdown so I watched a Tony Allain pastel video organised by the Mall Galleries and then painted it myself in mixed media this morning. Very chocolate box but enjoyed it. Unfortunately I now need to replace some sennelier oil pastels! Expensive hobby painting !

I used this to influence my own painting 'The Station House' in oil pastel.