Element

Solo Exhibition

19th - 25th July 2015

The Gallery Birdwood House, 44 High Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5SQ

Pre-view Sunday 19th July 2015

11am - 3pm

(I will be painting everyday during the exhibition pop along and say hello)

New Day, new work

I'm up, not quite with the lark but off to my studio - bliss, a day to myself to paint, this is my inspiration for the day :)

Patchings Art Festival

So pleased my gorgeous giraffe has found a loving home - sold to a lovely lady at Patchings today.  It has been a wonderful day meeting so many people, demonstrating on my stand and chatting to such enthusiastic artists - so much fun!

See you there tomorrow for more excitement and fun with paint :)

Fast pace

Life has been busy but such fun; it is now time to prepare for Patchings Art Festival - first time I have exhibited and demonstrated at the show, can't wait.  I will be in the Artist Marquee at studio 250, pop in to see me and say hello, I will be demonstrating many of my techniques :)

Saturday Workshop 20th July

Saturday Workshop

20th July 2013

at

The Burdett Building

Wolborough Road

Newton Abbot

Devon

The focus for the day will be a coastal scene with beach huts based on one of my photos

£25.00 for the day

Bring your lunch - coffee and tea provided

To book your place or for further information contact me:

Louisebougourd@hotmail.co.uk

or

Tel: 01626 203859

Filming for "A Splash of Paint' at SAA Headquarters.

Filming for 'A Splash of Paint' at SAA Headquarters - will be on:

http://www.thepaintinganddrawingchannel.co.uk/

Episode 14

The day did not start well as we had the wrong postcode for our Sat Nav but, everything improved as soon as I arrived at SAA Headquarters.  I was given a coffee and time to set-up before filming began.  I was very quickly painting the first scene with cameras from all directions staring at me; no time to consider whether my bottom looked big in an outfit haha.  Off we went filming as I painted in my usual  free and loose style creating a moorland scene - such fun.  One down and number two was soon under way, a coastal scene closely followed by a flower scene.  Wow, what a fast pace but so exhilarating!  Much more to be done - time seemed to melt and before long the day was coming to an end.

I felt so tired but motivated, I just wanted to continue painting; it is not often that I get to paint so many scenes without interruption.

Massive thank you to Gary and his team at SAA for making the day fun and memorable, also for looking after me especially the chocolate!

New Beginnings

This is the initial stage of a painting I will be doing this week in my classes; I like to have a 'dummy' run if time permits me which serves two purposes; firstly, I have fun experimenting with my ideas by trialling them for myself, secondly, I am able to take the 'dummy' run to my classes for people to see what I have in mind.

I have used a large graphite pencil to to indicate where the trees and gate need to be; I have also used some masking fluid (I prefer Pebeo) to mask a few cow parsely plants and oil pastel to introduce a splash of pink and yellow into what will be a predominantly green painting.

Second stage - I have used Green gold and Undersea green (both Daniel Smith) to create the distant hill and hedges.  I used a large round sable to apply clean water to the top of the hill followed by green gold then undersea green into the green gold to create a soft, defused distance.  I then used a strong mix of undersea green to suggest foliage and grasses into the foreground varying the strength.  Finally, I spattered Opera rose (Windsor & Newton) and Translucent orange (Schminke) into the lower foreground to suggest wild flowers.  I'm now waiting for it to dry - cup of coffee time.