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The painting of the butterfly that I finished last Thursday.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 4 Dec 24

Above is a picture of the butterfly painting that I finished last Thursday. The background was just me using up left over paint one week so it wouldn't go to waste, and I just smeared it all over a canvas with a palette knife!...

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The acrylic painting I did yesterday.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 11 Oct 24

I'm not going down town shopping today because of my cold, so I'm staying in and watching TV! My Mum has gone to the house group that meets at Church. Yesterday I did the painting of the still life with jug which I showed you...

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This weeks painting project.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 8 Oct 24

This is the drawing I've done ready for this weeks painting project. The demonstration in the London Art Course syllabus is in oils, but if you don't want to do it in oils you can use acrylic or gauche. I'm going to be using...

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The painting that I've been doing today. (19/9/2024)

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 19 Sep 24

Today I finished my painting of this bowl of fruit. (See above.) I'd already completed most of it. I'd really only got to finish the bananas on the right. (Can you tell that they are supposed to be bananas?) All I really had to...

experimental seascape

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The finished ladybird painting!

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 12 Sep 24

I managed to do some painting today for the first time in weeks because of Mum being in hospital. I've finished my ladybird painting! (See picture above.) I went over the red part of the ladybird first because that was very...

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What I did at art class today.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 1 Aug 24

My taxi was five minutes early picking me up from art class today, which was goof. When I got there our usual tutor, Tina, wasn't there. I don't know why she wasn't there, but a different lady was there. I think her name was...

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What I did at art class on Thursday.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 12 Jul 24

I'm only writing about this now because I haven't really had time to do it before. On Thursday I went to art class again. My taxi was late! He came at almost 1:35pm and I was thinking of phoning them up to see where he was! But...

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The finished painting of the rose.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 7 Jun 24

Yesterday, when I came back from art class, and after EastEnders, I finished my acrylic painting of the rose. I darkened the main middle area, as you can see, and also the areas at the bottom right and left. The darker areas...

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The butterfly - Work in Progress.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 9 May 24

When I came home from art class, I had my dinner and watched some telly. After EastEnders I washed up, then I went to do some more painting in the dining room. I painted the edges of the burgundy canvas first, because I'd missed...

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This is what I'm painting today.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 2 May 24

Above is the painting I'm doing today. This little dog belonged to a lady called Lee who went to the art class last year. I'm going to take it with me to the art class and if she's there I'm going to give it to her as a present....

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Another fish painting - work in progress

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 28 Mar 24

This is another fish painting that is a work in progress. I painted the whole of the left fishes fins and tail in orange and let that dry, then I painted the whole of the body area in deep red, and let that dry. Then I added...

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The finished painting of the fish.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 21 Mar 24

Here is the finished painting of the fish. All I really needed to do to it was the orange pattern on the main fish. It was harder than it looked and I don't think I got them wavy enough. While that was drying I drew in the...

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Another of my fish paintings - Work in Progress.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 21 Mar 24

I got up at 6:00am this morning! Actually, it was 5:52am, but I thought it's near enough to 6:00am, and I'm awake, so I might as well get up! I was getting up this early, which I don't usually do, so that I could do some painting...

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The first finished painting of some fish.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 14 Mar 24

Here is the first finished painting of some fish. I did finish the practice piece first, but I haven't taken a picture of that yet. So what I did with this piece was I did the background first, trying to get it lighter at the...

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The Abbey Ruins painting - Almost finished.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 7 Mar 24

So, I've almost finished the Abbey ruins painting, despite being held back by texting and receiving texts about the art course and my deposit that seems to be lost in the post. I painted the walls in this painting in an order...

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The finished painting of the flowers.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 29 Feb 24

Here is the finished painting of the flowers. In my last post I'd finished the background and just started on the flowers themselves. When that was dry I got out my palette knives and began on the flowers. I used gamboge for...

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The flower painting - Work in progress.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 22 Feb 24

This is how far I've got with the flower painting so far. I started at the bottom with burnt umber mixed with a little black. Then before that was dry I used sap green on the stems and tried to blend it with the raw umber at the...

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Another painting work in progress - but it didn't go quite to plan!

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 1 Feb 24

This picture was supposed to be an acrylic painting in the watercolour style. It didn't quite go to plan! I did it following a demonstration in my new book Acrylics For the Absolute Beginner. I got my cobalt blue out of my new...

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The finished painting of the peacock.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 25 Jan 24

This is the finished painting of the peacock. The first thing I did with it today was try to cover up the black on his front with ultramarine blue but I don't think I was entirely successful. I used turquoise with a touch of...

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The Peacock painting - work in progress.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30756) • Lichfield, England 18 Jan 24

Here is the peacock painting that I've been doing. It is a work in progress and I will finish it next week. I did the background first. I started with light green and then graduated to a darker green up the top right hand...

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