well that is Christmas done for another year. Lots of new art goodies, books and a subscription to two art magazines.....
I have managed a few painting and hope to do some more later...

Happy Christmas to anyone who is reading this. I hope that everyone got lots of presents and that 2013 will bring Health and Happiness.

Here are more paintings.

It rained all day today, so it was a good reason to stay in and paint....here are the four that I did.

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Life has been hectic for a few days but I did managed a few more aceos....
Sales are slowing down a bit right now, which is to be expected ....however, I still have bids on ebay and will keep listing as last year I had a sale on Christmas day.....there is always someone who is bored or needs their daily internet fix...lol...
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It has been very cold the last few days but we have been lucky not to have had the frost that a lot of the UK has had.......

I have relisted a cartoon in my Folksy shop and I might paint some more cartoons after Christmas.....this one can be found on www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

Monday again.....the weekends seem to go so quickly......I managed a couple of paintings using alcohol  inks as well as watercolours.....they give beautiful results but it is difficult to control what they do....here are two of them...

Today is my birthday so I am spending the day being pampered....love it....lol

Here are two paintings that I did on Tuesday....

despite a busy day yesterday, I managed to get 4 aceos painted. Folksy refunded the money that they overcharged me too....so I am continuing to list in my Folksy shop....
here are the paintings from yesterday....

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Today, after a nice lie in I got out my Chinese brushes and and the instruction book. Making the brush strokes is easy but turning them into something that resembles a nice painting is NOT. Never mind, here are my efforts

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