Watercolours With Life: Getting Ahead

Thursday, 15 April 2010

Getting Ahead

"Getting Ahead"

Original Watercolour by Jean Haines

This week has been amazing. I thought I would be able to catch up on my emails and administration from having spent all last week hosting my Watercolours With Life workshops here in U.K. However I seem to be inundated with wonderful requests for workshops abroad and exciting demonstration opportunities in U.K.

At the moment I am very well aware I need to focus on a collection of cockerels that are going to be raising funds for a very special charity that is dear to my heart which will help some incredible children. So this is why at the moment you see my facebook and blog absolutely covered with washes and paintings of some of my favourite subjects. In the background in my studio there are also racing scenes flying around, a few dog paintings and some childrens portraits which I have yet to share.

If I took all the time I needed to describe my day I could wear myself out yet alone anyone reading my posts! I am not quite sure how I am juggling so much, a visit to the castle yesterday, a trip to the gallery two days running for work for exhibitions, framing decisions and writing. I also am quietly and calmly preparing for a move back into a cottage that we have spent the last twelve months renovating. It looks so beautiful and I know next years art events there are going to be so amazing. Professional landscape or floral artists will love it as a place to host workshops and artists of all levels will eventually find it a peaceful haven.

On that note I have some very exciting projects coming up and this morning I was approached regarding the possibility of an "Invitation Only" Watercolour Inspirational Centre Online by a professional organisation. This would involve monthly workshops with regular simple challenges to inspire and motivate. In all honesty I don't think I can take one more thing on but I know everyone who follows my style by workshops or online would love a place to share together paintings they have created where feedback from others inspires at every turn.. I will think about it!

Watch this space!

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1 comment:

Helen said...: Fascinating idea!! And I love this cockerel...slow down ...just a little!; 15 April 2010 at 11:14

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Jean Haines' Atmospheric Watercolours

"The book is nothing less than a paean to the wet in wet technique. If that's your thing, prepare to be amazed. Jean Haines credits Jean Louis Morelle, and in many ways this book is the sequel to Morelle's remarkable, but very technical work, showing the wealth of creative possibilities the technique offers. A lot of the images are barely recognisable and yet you instinctively know what they are. I wish I knew how, because this is impressionism taken to its logical conclusion and reminiscent of some of the later work by JMW Turner. You will have to take it from me that "First signs of a face appearing magically from a first wash of watercolour" is pure alchemy. This is an extraordinary book."

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