Showing posts with label dolls house paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dolls house paintings. Show all posts

Tutorial: Vincent Van Gogh's "A Wheatfield, with Cypresses" in Miniature

Famous Paintings in Miniature Number 4: Van Gogh's A Wheatfield, with Cypresses  

In this, the fourth in my famous paintings in miniature series, I will be showing you how to recreate  Van Gogh's “A Wheatfield, with Cypresses”, 1889.


Happy New Year 2016

A Happy New Year to all my friends and followers, I wish you lots of love, laughter and of course many hours of creativity splashing that paint around.

This is the January 2016 issue of the Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine and what do you know - my very own tutorial showing readers how to recreate Norbert Goeneutte’s The Boulevard de Clichy under Snow, 1876, is the main feature on the front cover!




Of course those who follow me on facebook  will be well aware of this but I'm sure you'll all forgive me, I'm just too thrilled to be right there as the feature piece!

I don't really do New Year's resolutions (and it's too late anyway now), but this year I intend to blog more regularly. I hope to be able to bring you some miniature tutorials, some general chit chat and of course my new diary, which will hopefully be even better than last years. I'll get some photos taken of the last couple of weeks of my 2016 diary and then put together a new blog post for you here.

What are your New Year intentions? Did you make any resolutions and have you stuck to them?! Let me know in the comments section below.

I'm on the front cover!

My miniature Monet is on the front cover of this month's Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine!






And I got a wonderful write up from the press team over at Folksy (the lovely British company who host my shop):


 
Stephanie Guy on the front cover of Dolls House and Miniature Scene 
We were very excited to spot artist and Folksy seller Stephanie Guy on the front cover of the November issue of Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine.  
Stephanie is a professional artist who works in watercolour, oils, acrylics and ink, and specialises in Dolls House and Miniature Paintings. She works to commission and can take on orders for personalised paintings. She has a regular column in Dolls House and Miniature Scene magazine, which is the most popular dolls house magazine in the UK and is published by Warner. 
You can see Stephanie’s full collection of miniature dolls house paintings in her Folksy shop - she even has miniature spooky Halloween scene if you are decorating your dolls house for Halloween! in her Folksy shop 

How fabby is that? I'm a very happy bunny today.

Pet Portraits in aid of the Cinnamon Trust

A few weeks ago I was introduced to the wonderful work of The Cinnamon Trust- the only specialist national charity for people in their last years and their much loved, much needed companion animals.

Volunteers undertake a multitude of pet related tasks; exercising, bathing, cleaning out cages, taking the pet to the vet, fostering while the owner is in hospital or care - basically anything that will keep the pet and owner together for longer, thus extending the lives, happiness and well-being of both owners and pets.

On the sad occasion that an owner dies, the Cinnamon trust will then rehome the pet, where possible matching up with a new owner who's companion pet has died - allowing an animal loving person who is approaching the end of their life (and therefore cannot commit to a new pet) to still have an animal companion to ease their days. They also have a centre where some pets can go to live out the rest of their lives in peace and comfort.

Isn't that a fabulous cause? I was so blown away by this charity that I immediately decided to donate 20% of the list price of all future pet portraits to The Cinnamon trust. And in the Autumn I intend to donate my time too.


The Cinnamon Trust



A sample of my most popular miniature pet portraits


A recent colour portrait 2.5 x 3.5 inches

Pets come in all shapes and sizes!