tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21950729256918159442024-03-13T00:31:11.047-07:00Watercolours With LifeA passion for life,nature and watercolour shared in harmony throughout the seasons.Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.comBlogger1871125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-20661400383253406712020-03-17T09:08:00.000-07:002020-03-17T09:08:01.786-07:00 ONLINE ART SCHOOL NEWS! ** Register Open**<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>I am so excited! Actually I am excited and disappointed but I will explain why in this blog post. I have just made the toughest decision to cancel all of my upcoming art events including my demonstration and workshop at Broadway Arts Festival 2020 and I was attending Patchings Art Festival in summer. However governments all over the world are offering advise on the Corona Virus and self isolation along with social distancing seems to be a common theme. So I am really sorry for anyone that was hoping to see me in action personally this year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>Here is the good news! You may not be able to attend a workshop with me but you can now see me painting live online! My new online art school is almost ready to open and in preparation there is a special offer for the opening two weeks. Please see the link below for details and add your email address where requested, if you are interested in joining my regular tutorials . You will recieve notifcation every month on two new exciting tutorials to follow and paint. Just imagine, you will be in my home with me on a regular basis and given inspiration of things to paint, techniques to try and projects to complete.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>Self isolation can be a good thing enabling us to create without interruption but there will be also be an online community in my new online art school where you can show your art work and meet your freinds or make new ones!</i></span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-65937657575987061482020-03-11T07:31:00.005-07:002020-03-11T07:31:50.890-07:00Exciting Online Tutorials and New Art School Coming soon! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jean Haines Online Art School </b></span><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have been quiet. Very quiet. And it has made me think of a time when my Step Mother always used to say " What is Jean up to ?" because she knew if I went really quiet for some time I was coming up with something new. And I have been working on just that. Something incredibly new and exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It hit me during the time I was unable to travel how difficult it is keeping up with the demand for my workshops internationally. I have tried lengthening my tours, expanded the number of workshops I have held in each location and often added one more to take on the waiting list for cancellations. Only to discover a new waiting list grows then which is often twice as long. How wonderful to be so popular you may think but actually it hurts me to not be able to allow everyone who wants to attend one of my classes or see me to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">There had to be ansnwer and this is my solution. I have started filming tutorials for an online art school which will be open for everyone. It involves a membership to join that can be either annual or monthly. There is even a free preview so you can make your mind up before committing. The fee is reasonable,<i> </i>in fact a really good offer especially at the launch. I would strongly advise joining as a full member while the art school is new and then you can grow with me in this adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> Two tutorials each month, a community where you can share your art from my demonstrations. Once a member you can watch the tutorials as often as you like. I will be sharing my favourite colours, subjects, discoveries and new techniques as they evolve.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have been filming frequently in preparation for the launch and I have considered that some members may never have been on a workshop with me. So some really simple subjects will be included too and my plan is to have art in mind that can grow as your skill level improves. From easy to more complex.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It will be an inspirational, motivational and energising site. Having said that it is a natural teaching site in that you will be welcomed into my home where each demonstration ( so far) has taken place. My two young puppies have created a few comical headaches for us and these are included, You will see me serious at times and laughing when I am interrupted by them. As my puppies are now turning into adult dogs the chaotic fun is less frequent but still fascinating.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Basically, as a member you have access to me twice a month in demonstrations and I will visit the online gallery as time allows but here you will be mixing with and meeting other watercolour enthusiasts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have a wonderful vision for this new online art school. It will be launching soon and you will be able to register your interest and recieve notification by email on how to join.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Watch out for competitions, challenges to push yourself and give aways too. A surprise around many corners just as in life. Like Spring when everything is new, fresh and fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I will still be travelling and demonstrating so I will share news about that very soon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Oh, and one more very important thing, my blog will be moving to my new web site so once it is open I will share a link here and a link to my watercolour school.</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-5495623347814482912020-01-20T08:52:00.000-08:002020-01-20T08:52:08.414-08:00Hope 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Whenever I see the first snowdrops each year they give me hope of what is to come. They always seem to bloom just when winter is at its' worst, with cold grey days needing some cheer. I know these tiny white flowers will soon be followed by clusters of cheerful yellow daffodils in my garden which will lead me into early Summer flowers full of vibrant colour.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Maybe we need the dull days to help us enjoy the sunny ones far more. As in, perhaps, we need those days when our paintings don't go as we expected. Those times really make us appreciate when our artistic ideas work!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>We all have down days. But how we deal with them is the difference to their effect on us.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>I've been walking our two puppies daily but I must confess when the sun shines I find my walks far more enjoyable. But those long walks in the cold wake my brain up so much more! That is my positive attitude for, and thoughts about, cold weather.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>I wandered to the woodland section at the foot of our garden recently and discovered the first of our snowdrops blooming. Just a few but they were there and I raced into my studio to paint them. I found myself getting quite botanical with this composition but perhaps as I am tidying my home and studio with an annual spring clean my " tidy persona" is getting the better of me in my art.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Well I started this blog post with the word "hope" so I will close it with a wish that I hope whatever you wish to achieve in 2020 will not only be achieved but better than how you expected it to be.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Keep hoping positive thoughts, dreaming impossible dreams and looking ahead to bright fantastic days. Making them happen!</i></span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-56862784953254426202019-12-18T07:56:00.005-08:002019-12-18T07:56:57.005-08:00Happy Christmas! 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>Well here is December 2019 and next week is Christmas. In fact Christmas Day is now only one week away. With all my good intentions of being on my blog more often I had studio and computer problems which meant that wish for me didn't come true.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>But I camefon my blog today for one thing only.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>To wish you the very best of Christmases. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i> I am aware that this isnfot the easiest of times for so many. We miss loved ones and friends so very much who are no longer with us. For us, this year has seen quite a few unexpected extremely sad goodbyes, one in particular hurts very much. I look at my husband John and feel so blessed to be together still and enjoying life.We are very lucky indeed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>I pick up a blank piece of white paper and see it as a golden opportunity to create something new, colourful and exciting. I wake each day thinking positive regardless of what may have happened the day before. Life has its' way of throwing us hurdles, juat like those wretched mistakes in our art that we have to handle or get over somehow. Knowing not everything is in our control is really a wonderful way to look at working in watercolour. I don't try to control it. I try to work with it, making the most of its beautiful qualities.The surprises and happy accidents. Loving what I like and adapting to the things that I don't. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>I painted a poinsettia as one is in my home and I loved its vibrant red bracts. Initially my painting looked too pink but I added a layer of a red shade on top of the composition to add more punch to the piece. Now I like the energy in the brushwork that is unhindered by lines pre drawn.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>I know, and have always known since childhood that I am a free spirit. There is no point in trying to tie me down to just one subject or just one technique. Which is why my favourite medium suits me so well. I wake painting what I feel like painting and love the freedom and sense of adventure this brings me. And pleasure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>I will be starting my blog in 2020 making an announcement for anyone interested in learning watercolour from me so please do watch this space!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I first discovered the value of painting with mushroom ink some time ago when we first moved into our cottage. I found mushrooms in our woodland garden that resembled judges wigs. When I read up about them I was thrilled to learn that this fungi was used by monks years ago for calligraphy and after reading up on the subject I decided I would try painting with the same ink. The above painting of a cat is created using mushroom ink from inkcap mushrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I have now learnt how to prepare the ink from the mushrooms and how to avoid any fading of my finished work. I have also discovered mushroom ink really does create the most gorgeous effects just like purchased inks. They are fascinating. You can lift the ink colour, make fabulous watermarks with it and have fun experimenting to gain all manner of effects with this soft and interesting fluid mushroom ink.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">To avoid fading I now apply two coats of mushroom ink building up my painting very gradually. I often allow the first layer of mushroom ink to dry and then add detail on top, so the softness of my muted background shade acts as a base for my stronger more prominent detailed brushwork which is added finally to complete my composition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">This natural ink is so much fun to experiment with and what better month to try this idea than Inktober?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">There are many natural dyes to try, this is just one.My blackberry paintings always involve the juice of staining, real blackberries for example. So here is a challenge, How about finding something from nature that you can paint with?</span></div>
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Hello and thank you for so many lovely messages especially by email telling me how happy friends are to see me back on my blog. And I am back! So here is a really fun post, in fact it is a fun guy (fungi ) portrait ! </div>
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Its the time of year when foraging really does pay dividends for an artist as there is so much inspiration to see daily that tempts our brushes. But at this time of year there is also far more to benefit our studios in the form of natural dyes and inks. In the woodland section of our garden there are many ink cap mushrooms. Known as judges wigs because of how the white tops curl up as they evolve over a short period of time. If gathered and left to disintegrate in a container they form gorgeous ink that is a delight to work with. I paint with these mushrooms every year but now know they need to be applied in various ways to ensure the colour stays fast rather than fading which it can unlike manufactured products. As it is Inktober I thought it would be fun to share my afternoons play session results from working with the mushroom ink.</div>
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In the image below you can see my container with the disintegrated mushrooms. A black ink liquid has formed but when used it surprisingly often has a brownish rather than black appearance on paper. To begin here I simply created a blob of colour with the ink on a scrap of paper to see how strong the colour of the mushroom ink would be. I added water and ( being me ) instantly saw the hint of a face. A few brushstrokes later with water and touches of more ink led to my portrait of Shakespeare appearing. I am saying it is Shakespeare now but initially this was just a blob of ink. I have to be totally honest! Shakespeare apperaed by happy accident. </div>
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<i>Mushroom ink. Here I did add a little water as the ink had dried over night. Tip: if you are experimenting with home made inks formed with plants or herbs try avoiding adding too much water as you can then heavily dilute the ink to a very soft and possibly fading shade.</i></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-45417199975615600932019-10-07T07:56:00.005-07:002019-10-07T07:56:44.297-07:00Hello? Is there anybody there?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;">I feel as though I am walking into a room without a clue as to whether anyone will be in it or not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Why? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Its' been so long since I wrote on my blog and I'm wondering if anyone is still here to read my posts! <i>I am so sorry. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I had an email from a blog reader recently asking where I was. I am here, just not finding time to write here lately. Not for any other reason than that I am really hectic with my offline life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I could blame our two new puppies for taking up a lot of my time because they do. My daily routine now consists of daily long walks to tire them plus a training schedule. You will be pleased to hear that I am now almost fully trained to their way of thinking. Although seriously they are beautiful boys, great fun to be with and they are at this young age, quite naturally, time consuming.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But back to my art. I am working on a project that hopefully will be released next year and if possible announced before Christmas. It involves filming and that is the main reason I am quiet. I hope you will love the news when I can finally share the secret in a big reveal!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I have been in an exhibition in London too plus I demonstrated at an authors day at the Mall Galleries again in London ,via my publisher. Thank you to everyone who came to see me because it was such a great day. And a bargain. Visitors could see a number of artists working for a very low entrance fee although it seemed everyone who came to see me stayed with me for the whole day and I managed to practically pull off a workshop experience almost, with three different presentations throughout the event. I may return next year so do watch this space!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But I am back now, settled in my studio and painting, loving that feeling of seeing colour flow across paper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Its' autumn and the autumn colours are as always thrilling me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I hope to share more regularly now.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #660000;">Dorothy, a special hello to you and thank you for your email about my being missing from my blog which shook me back into typing here!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Huge hugs to everyone and happy painting!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">This time last year my book " Atmospheric Flowers in Watercolour" was launched and I loved being at Patchings Art Festival to sign books and demonstrate my techniques. It was fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">This year I am sitting in my garden again painting florals and loving each plant as it comes into flower. In my flower book there is a chapter on how to paint white subjects and complex shapes. The phlox flowers were perfect for this demonstration as they met both challenges as a subject.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">I then began to paint around the edges of several of the focal point blooms and left some half finished for viewers imagination, </span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #0c343d;">of my finished piece, </span>to complete.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">The paintings on my easel as seen above show the finished phlox painting from my book. The other painting is a new work in progress and I am experimenting with it. I have used various products on this piece which I hope to share in a future demonstration. In fact I will be sharing far more very soon I am happy to say but for now as they say " Watch this space" Exciting news is coming!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Below you can see a photograph of the white phlox flowers that are blooming in my garden this year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">The seasons teach us so much. We need to enjoy each one before it is over. And all that each gives to us.</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-36710493745784731202019-07-09T05:04:00.003-07:002019-07-09T05:04:43.095-07:00Patchings Demonstrations Cancelled 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Sadly I have had to cancel my demonstrations at Patchings Art Festival 2019 and I will not be attending this week. It is such a shame as I had so much that was new to share but I have been advised not to travel too far from home at the moment. I had a small health blip a few weeks ago and although everything seems to have settled again I just couldn't take the risk of letting everyone down at the last minute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Ironically, since I cancelled the event my health seems to be rocketing into the far better zone which is really infuriating! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Patchings always has been a huge favourite part of my year in UK as I meet so many wonderful people there. I will however be demonstrating in London next month at the Mall Galleries which is near to my home and I will definitely be talking about my new Daniel Smith sets and how to use them along with sharing a new techniques that I am falling in love with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Everyone has been so fantastically understanding about my cancelling this year and Chas from Patchings has extended a huge warm invitation for me to be there next year . </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">To everyone going to Patchings, have a wonderful time, think of me and see you next year , hopefully!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I feel I should start this blog post by thanking everyone who follows me and who reads my posts. There was a time I could over load my blog with up to three posts a day, this slowed down over time to several posts a week. Then I started travelling and when I was on tour time often went by with very long periods between posts. At the beginning of this year I was really poorly and my spirits took a nose dive. I hardly shared on my blog at all during that time. But luckily I had written my latest book. " Paint Yourself Positive". </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I have taken time to read and absorb the chapters. Smiling at the positivity on each page and actually I have been kicking myself into action. What I needed to do to heal correctly was paint as well as heed the specialists advise. Not surprisingly it has worked but my painting has changed. I seem to have grown again. Leapt over another hurdle and my technique has improved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I have even MORE excitement about colour . You may ask " Is this possible from Jean Haines?". The answer is a resounding YES!.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I sat quietly by my lily pond yesterday and painted the above watercolour of water lilies. I listened to birdsong as I worked. My puppies slept mostly by my feet although at times they naughtily crept into sections of the pond that they can easily access. I did tell them " No" but its' so hard to keep a straight face when a puppy with duckweed all over its muzzle stares intently at you trying to work out what the command is. I laughed non stop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I think my laughter flowed into my painting as it has a happy feel to it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">This is a large piece. The smaller waterlily painting seen in my book " Paint Yourself Positive is a favourite of mine. There is something about waterlilies. Something magical. They always makes me think of Monet garden. It was a long time dream of mine to visit his garden in Giverny France and when I did I was so happy, and emotional.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Having dreams come true is very special. But they cannot unless you make some. Have you added to your wish list lately? If not, why not?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">If you have never had a wish list now is the time to start. Have small wishes that are achievable and a few that may be out of reach. As one dream comes true add a new one. Just keep wishing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I want more free time to share my news on my blog as I have so much!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">Try looking at a painting you did a year ago and paint a new version of it. See if you have grown as an artist or do you like how you painted before?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">Compare the "you" from today and last year and see if you can positively chnage the "you" of tormorrow! </span></i></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-3859177804120283892019-06-25T08:34:00.000-07:002019-06-25T08:35:36.398-07:00New ** Jean Haines Daniel Smith Shimmer Set <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-11258511350396328952019-06-25T08:03:00.002-07:002019-06-25T08:03:31.270-07:00Poppies : Jean Haines Daniel Smith Shimmer Sets 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #990000;">Can life get any more exciting? Or painting? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I am thrilled to have two new sets of Daniel Smith Watercolours about to be launched and one is a shimmer set. This collection really does include some of my favourite iridescent and shimmering shades. Some I have shared previously on my blog. Some I use in subtle ways adding exciting sheen to my work that sometimes aren't easy to spot but I love it when I am asked " How did you achieve that effect?".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">The following painting as seen below is a perfect example.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">At the moment I have very delicate pale purple poppies growing in our cottage garden. They self seed each year and spring up absolutely everywhere. I have learnt to enjoy then rather than pull them out. After all they are nature working in the garden breaking up any idea of our flower borders being looking manicured!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I started this piece by painting the purple section of the poppies. I then added a mix of green below the flower heads, placing cling film on top to form crinkle paterns for the leaves. Next I worked the negative edge of the top of the flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Next I added poppy buds and a seed head. Stems too started to appear. And this was where I could have stopped colour wise. But I selected a few of my shimmer set shades. Iridescent Ruby and Iridescent Topaz to pump up the drama in a subtle way. The sheen on my silky petals looks glorious now. You may notice subtle use of Iridescent Electric Blue too, a colour I adore!<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">These shades from my shimmer set work so well adding magic when combined with other colours. They give a form of light and life to a painting that is unusual, which suits me perfectly. To be honest, I love having little tricks to bring my paintings to life
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<span style="color: #990000;">Below you can see my easel To the left is a small study just created for me to try colour ideas. To the right the painting I created whilst sat in my garden looking at the real thing. I prefer painting from life as you learn so much from how light plays and interacts on a subject rather than by working from photographs constantly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Try hard not to only paint from photographs. Painting from life in natural light gives you far more information on colours to use, you can observe colours interacting,see genuine light and shadow. So much detail that you can miss when painting a flat image as seen in a photo. Look for something as a subject that draws you in to paint it and have a go no matter what it is. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">My new book........ </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I am hot off the phone to my publishers and I am thrilled to share the news that I will be demonstrating at the Mall Galleries in London on August 28th. I will be demonstrating three times during the day with projects from each of my books including my latest book " Paint Yourself Positive".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Actually it has been a rather tough year as my health took an unexpected nose dive, we sadly lost friends who were close to us that also hurt so much and various other things happened that were out of my control knocking me for six.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">But. as always, painting lifted me back to where I usually am. High spirited, smiling and living life to the full again. I am so glad I wrote this latest book as for a change I desperately needed to heed my own advise! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">" Paint Yourself Positive" has changed my life. I thought I was already a positive person but there were many ways I could enrich each day and even give myself the power to simply " be" and get the best out of each moment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I am back to having a ball and I am so excited at being able to demonstrate and give my all to everyone who comes to see me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">I will share more news about this fabulous event soon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">But if you wish to come please mark the date in your diary, and I will be signing books that you can bring with you or buy at the venue.</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-64856034442134324922019-06-24T05:28:00.000-07:002019-06-24T05:28:16.334-07:00Racing Ahead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #660000;"> <i>Racing Ahead</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">No matter the time of year, my horse racing scenes are always the most requested by galleries. Still. They take time to create and build up into a really good action scene that is full of movement. These compositions are when I ironically use my "Don't race to finish a painting" technique.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">We can lose so much action in a scene like this by rushing to complete a painting. We can also miss the touches in places that really do add drama and impact in a piece if we continue to work non stop rather than take our time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I do love how this piece is developing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">My favourite to win at the moment is the jockey in red seen below. But the jockey in blue could take the lead at any time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The point is in life, as in painting, there are times when waiting to see how things develop is far wiser than trying to force a result.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The words " I will just..............." spring to mind as I often think I will just add one more brush stroke before leaving a piece as a work in progress. That last " one more touch " can sometimes be the killing brush stroke, or yes, it can be the making of a painting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But as artists we often have to follow our gut instinct.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">My instinct is telling me this piece is nearly complete. Detail needs adding in places and "confusion" in others as in breaking up areas where blocks of colour exist at the moment. With each touch I am learning so much about the way I create and why.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">We never stop learning, in life and in art.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">And for me the journey is still as exciting if not more so than reaching my destination.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">In fact.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I am in no race!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>Study your favourite sections of any painting and work out why they work, is there more or less detail there? Are the colour combinations there working better?</i></span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-16479523333673681132019-06-18T11:04:00.000-07:002019-06-18T11:04:12.254-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The rooster theme is continuing in my studio and I have almost completed my new larger composition. This piece was very dependant on the pigment interaction of my earlier painting, shared last week on my blog, in a recent post. This time my wash colours were placed deliberately knowing that the finished piece would be a rooster where as the last wash was painted with random colours and I had no idea of what the outcome would be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Sometimes it is harder painting this way as my brain sees where to put colour so the accidental and often beautiful watermarks that are created randomly in an unplanned wash are missing. Here with this method I am more in control so for the artist that likes planning ahead this method of creating may suit you best. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I added the head section first on my pre placed first wash. If the head isn't right in the early staeges of a composition there is no point in working further, Next I added the rooster body, but I have done very little to the tail feathers as the wash and pigment interaction in this section looked so gorgeous as they were I didn't want to over shadow them with my own brushwork.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I could have left the rooster on white paper as it was but I was enjoying myself so much that before I knew it I had added hints of chicken wire in the distance,and then straw on the ground in the foreground.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I can still see things I would like to add but for now I am stopping, taking a break so that I can look at this piece with new eyes in the morning. I have an idea that just might make this rooster "pop" even more and if I do use the idea I will share it on my blog at a later stage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It's wonderful how one painting will lead to several others on the same theme. I already have an idea for two new paintings from thisone but I may want a break from roosters first!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>If you are unsure of whether you have finished a painting, or not, always leave it as it is until the next day so you can see the piece then with fresh eyes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>Caution:</b> If you work further when you are unsure you could over work the piece and regret your haste.</i></span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-91023977083590082362019-06-14T05:09:00.000-07:002019-06-14T05:09:36.206-07:00Pigment Interaction <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><i>Never stop experimenting with pigments and having fun with colour.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I meet so many artists who have their own favourite colours and they stay with them year after year which is brilliant if this suits you as a personality. My problem is I am a Gemini and I get very bored very quickly. So to use the same colours and paint similar subjects each day would kill my creative spirit. It has in the past when I was first learning how to paint in watercolour and to the point I thought I actually didn't like painting. I now cannot imagine what my life would be like without colour and painting in it. I am also over joyed that I discovered Daniel Smith watercolour shades as they are so incredibly exciting to use. They suit me so well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Yesterday I painted a rooster on top of a wash that hadn't even started out to be a rooster. It was just a wash. I shared it on my blog. This explains the unusual colour combination and effects in the piece. I enjoyed painting that rooster so much that I couldn't wait to start a new painting of another one today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">But now my technique is different. Instead of simply throwing colour on paper and waiting to see what the subject could be from the result I deliberately planned my wash to include a rooster.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I knew from yesterdays completed painting that my new rooster today was going to be blue but I didn't know which shades to use. I have fallen in love hook , line and sinker with Daniel Smith Lunar Blue so that was my first choice. I know it granulates as a pigment and forms wonderful watermarks so that was shade choice number one. However using one shade alone can sometimes lead to boring results so I needed a second shade to give the Lunar Blue a kick and for this I opted for gorgeous Daniel Smith Moonglow. These two shades together form terrific patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">So my first wash with watermarks, colour swirls, early feather tail shape and movement can be seen below. Isn't it beautiful? Fresh, clean and exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Of course there will be red in the head section, and gold for the feet. Perhaps violet for the under shadows of the feathers. This is going to be a beautiful piece. And I can't wait to finish it but that is not good. I know from experience that racing to complete a painting can often kill it. So yes, I have created a second similar wash so I can work on the two taking the best ideas and brush work into each separate painting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I am never happier than when I am painting and I am loving my new feeling of excitement and joy in my work. I hope you can feel it too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">You know, rather than me tell you my favourite double colour combination I would love to hear yours. Perhaps you could reply to this post letting me and others know what your favourite pigment interaction colours are. And if you haven't tried new colours for ages this post could be just the boost to make you search for new favourites</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-63049347447691187322019-06-14T04:46:00.002-07:002019-06-14T04:46:45.133-07:00May Blossom 2019 : Its All About the Colour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>May Blossom 2019</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i> </i>What a great day to be alive. I now walk our two Australian Labradoodles daily before heading for my studio. Each day I see some new treasure I wish to paint and this routine has been a part of my life for so long. When I didn't have dogs for the period since losing our beloved Bailey I just couldn't face walking in my favourite spots. It didn't feel right without him. But now my soul is lifted by these two exuberant four legged little beings , new to our family, who are seeing adventure in every daily walk and its' wonderful. Seeing their joy certainly adds to my own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Their first walks saw the hedgerow smothered in tiny May blossoms. Now gone but not in my mind. Hence today's blog post. You may think did I use masking fluid? No, not at all. I find masking fluid use leaves hard edges that are sometimes far too stiff to soften to add the necessary life needed in a piece.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I then worked negative work around clumps of the tiny blossoms before picking out one or two individual small flowers to be my main focal points. As seen in the close up below. There is now a variety of white in the petals as some are pale blue giving a feeling of depth and shadow in my painting</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I want depth in this piece so I have used Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground , Mars Black, under some flowers and this works fantastically as a technique.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The full painting can be seen below. I still have a lot of work to do on this painting but it is coming to life so well , so far.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have received some wonderful messages from friends and followers who have missed me whilst I have been poorly. I am back! Feeling great and getting better by the day. Working from home for a while which is doing me the world of good and as you can see I am experimenting and sharing again.</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-45419187697662120132019-06-13T11:03:00.002-07:002019-06-13T11:03:47.621-07:00Hello?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Where to start? I am back again. Life is so busy at the moment and there is so much exciting art news to share. I have my own Daniel Smith sets coming out this year and I am thrilled to finally share the news. Behind the scenes so much has been going on connected to making these the most irrisistable of watercolour sets available and I have selected shades that I can't live without to be included in both.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Well for some time now I have been enhancing my work with the addition of iridescent and shimmer shades that bring exciting life in a very subtle way to my work. I have been asked how I am achieving the efffects so now I am sharing the products I use in Jean Haines sets and there is more news. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I intend to share some tips of this range of colours and next month will start filming ideas and techniques which you will be able to see on line. I am absolutely thrilled by this opportunity to show how I paint minus typing! So do watch this space for updates on this brilliantly thrilling new venture.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I can't wait for tomorrow when I will be back in my studio and sharing again. My health has taken a set back recently but I seem to be bouncing back well and working from home is suiting me much better for now. This does not mean I shan't be travelling in future. But my break from teaching is giving me time I needed to recharge my artistic batteries and think about the direction I wish to take as an artist at this stage in my career.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I will be sharing more news about my sets soon but for now my favourite colours are acting as silks on jockeys in my latest horse racing paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Everyone knows I adore Aussie Red Gold from the Daniel Smith Watercolour Range so it is no surprise to many that it should be my choice for the the winning jockeys silk however Lunar Blue quickly came into play as not only the dramatic background colour choice but it became the silk of the jockey that may just take the new lead position. It is so hard for me to choose a favourite colour as I love them all !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Below you can see the painting so far. It is building up well and I am taking my time as I really love this piece. The horses look almost 3D in places and the depth of the background pushes each rider forward creating a sense of movement which is much needed in any action composition.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>When I am teaching I come across so many artists who race to finish a painting in one go. Sadly they often miss the beauty of what the painting itself is screaming to the artist to add in the way of brushwork or colour additions as the painting evolves during its creative journey. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Life has a way of becoming busier by the second without you even realising it. I have accepted commissions which I am delighted to say have all been delivered even though I generally as a rule do not take them on. Why? Because I find it almost impossible to keep up with demand for personal commission paintings which sounds like a lovely position to be in as an artist but they tear me away from painting following my hearts instincts. Now I am working for galleries and I am creating with a passion that runs deep within my soul. I am not distracted by teaching at the moment so I can throw myself into my studio time with sheer abandon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">However life is incredibly busy for me still. With many projects on the horizon. My new book "Paint Yourself Positive" will be launched this summer,already available to pre order on Amazon.com and I am thrilled to share the news that I have my own Jean Haines Daniel Smith sets coming out too this year. These are incredibly exciting sets of colours which include my personal favourite shades. Actually they aren't just shades to me, they are my best friends as I can't work without them. The colours are vibrant, magical and the master set is an absolutely stunning collection. There is also a shimmer set because I have found I am now using the iridescent and shimmer shades to add drama to all of my work. There is nothing more thrilling to an artist that has been painting for years to be asked by another professional how they have achieved a certain effect. To use colour and still surprise artists of all levels is such a terrific feeling as it makes me understand I too am growing and developing still , discovering new techniques and ideas. Please look out for the sets when they are launched, news will be shared on my blog about them consistently.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But now back to my horse racing painting. I lay an important first wash down which really has to depict the characters and subjects well. They need to be coming to life immediately, if they don't it is not worth working further. This piece feels more than right. It holds an exciting energy that thrills my soul and even now when looking at it I can almost hear the hooves of the horses resounding as they cover the ground hurtling towards the finish line. Who will win?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Below you can see my easel with this first wash along side a study of two horses which put me in the mood for painting the bigger piece and gallery collection which will follow. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Below you can see the vibrant colours I am going to be adding on top of the first wash to bring drama, impact and even more energy to this piece. These colours are from my Daniel Smith Master set. Not one colour is boring within my Daniel Smith collection. Boring as a word does not fit into my life in any form especially when painting. My shades in each set will set your heart racing as if you too were heading towards the winning line!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> To create a full painting I often start small with a study. The below piece is lovely as it is but the energy increases in my work when I get into my painting zone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I have been quiet lately on my blog. At the beginning of the year I had a health scare which I have now fully recovered from, then we decided to bring two puppies into our lives and their training has taken up quite a bit of my time. But I have been painting in my studio for once for me only minus thinking of writing or teaching workshops. I believe to teach well we have to sometimes fill our own artistic tanks so that we have new material and ideas to share and oh boy is my artistic tank filling up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">My life is changing constantly and I have to admit writing my book "Paint Yourself Positive" has made me take stock of where I am , what I am doing and where I would like to be. I was convinced I was already there, at a point in my life where I am content with every aspect of my life. But we can all improve our lives no matter our age or circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I thought about how years ago I would always walk every day and find new treasures, often subjects I had never painted before, and bring them home to my study to create in watercolour. I would set myself challenges from finding the most simplest to the most complex of treasures and set about painting them in a variety of ways in watercolour. Those days stopped because we lost our dog Bailey. Since we lost him I threw myself into touring, teaching, writing and judging. So my personal walks and later even my studio time gradually came bottom of my list on how I spent my time. Now I make time for me. Time to paint for my own personal enjoyment. Discovering new techniques which I intend to share on future workshops, new books and possibly films.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I love giving to others but I am aware that my workshops can only be successfully enjoyable for me if I constantly grow as an artist. I find it boring to paint the same thing repeatedly, in the same style which has never been my way of working. I want to always believe I am on a journey in learning rather than feel I have reached any destination. I can grow in many ways, as a person and as an artist And I feel so much better now. My life is enriched. I feel my art is too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">We have two new puppies, Teddy and Murphy who are hard work but fun and because of them I am back to walking in different places daily finding new things to paint. Today the treasure I brought back to my studio was May Blossom. If I take the puppies on an interesting enough walk they sleep in my studio while I am painting. Which is bliss. This mornings' walk saw me carry a tiny sprig of May Blossom back to my studio and I created the first small study painting seen below with the sprig sat in the centre of the piece. Beneath this image you can see my painting minus the sprig of blossom. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">I,as always, enjoyed painting the small piece so much that I instantly created a large wash to act as a background for my detailed flowers. The larger piece is far more adventurous but feels as though it carries more freedom as I have room on the larger piece of paper to express myself. I don't use masking fluid but I have used white gouache on the piece to gain back some of the white blossoms. To create the sense of the real thing I took my puppies back to where the real flowers were this afternoon and sat admiring them , looking up at the heavily laden branches carrying small white flowers. Learning from nature that not all the flowers were perfect. Some had only one or two petals as the wind had knocked the delicate pieces off. Some were odd shapes, others connected to bigger clumps of small blooms. The sky behind the blossom varied in colour due to moving clouds. The branches also were a variety of colours from grey to reddish brown. I learnt so much just by sitting still. And that is also something I am learning to do. Sit still and observe. We race around in this life, often being constantly busy as though that is the right means of fulfilling each day. When the opposite can be said to be true.Quality time being quiet, observing, taking in nature and admiring its' beauty can do so much to enrich our souls and feed our artists inner needs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">I am having a blast in my studio. Our new puppies are peacefully sleeping at my feet and the short walks I take them on each day are leading me to see nature at its' best. Right now the country lanes are adorned with catkins and pussy willow. Both favourite subjects of mine to paint.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The pussy willow always has been a subject that appeals to me. As a child I loved touching its' soft fluffy buds. I loved how my step mum would always arrange them with bright yellow daffodils in a vase in our home to cheer the room especially on grey days when it was raining, which it often did in Wales where I grew up. Maybe that is why I often avoid using grey shades, I saw too many as a child as in grey skies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But back to my painting today and as you can see I am happily back sharing on my blog again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">The above piece was created after I played with a small study first as an experiment. I have used Daniel Smith Walnut ink for the dark central area to set off my soft pussy willow buds. I can't wait to complete this but it has to dry before I work further on it. Rather than waste time I began a second wash so the two paintings sit side by side on my easel waiting for the finishing brush work to be added.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Once I start painting I almost feel as though a light has been turned on in my soul. Something magical happens in that I feel energised, invigorated and eager to create beauty with my brushes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Oh how I love Spring. How I love working in watercolour and how I love life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">If only we could have 48 hour days and ten day week so that I could fit more in !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Daffodils are hard to paint so many people have told me but I love painting them. Maybe its' because I am from Wales and they are the Welsh National Flower. I grew up surrounded by them every spring and their gorgeous bright yellow hues would always make me feel instantly cheerful. But going back to those dreaded words.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Isn't everything hard to paint when we first take up painting? Especially as adults. Ask a child to paint anything and it never occurs to them that they can't, they just do it and love creating. We need to completely lose the fear of approaching new subjects. In fact I strongly believe that painting subjects that we do find difficult , often and regularly, improves our skill as artists. And so what if your painting goes in the bin ( trash can to my American friends!) . It is only by attempting a difficult task that the task in hand can be overcome and seen as being easier. The more you practise the less daunting the task becomes. In fact, over time, it can become something that no longer holds fear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I love a challenge. I love painting things that are new to me and I love painting things that I am familiar with. Like daffodils. I paint them every year but each time I do I attempt to improve on the ones I painted the year before. I am on a journey in art, learning and loving the road every step of the way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">So here I am in 2019 painting my first daffodils of the year and I am so happy. I am aiming to keep the petals papery thin and delicate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4) Paint from life as much as possible! I see blues, violets and golds in each petal when I study a real daffodil flower and yet when I look quickly at them I only see bright yellow!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i>From my new book "Paint Yourself Positive" which will be out in May 2019</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Well that wasn't the way I expected to start 2019 but here I am at last back writing on my blog and now I feel as though I will never catch up as I have so much to share but I have not been able to get on my blog until today. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Firstly. My Health. I am now only seeing one specialist, the cardiologist and I have been wearing a monitor that is directly linked to the hospital in case of any more " hiccups". I'm glad to say there has only been a small blip and so far I feel much better. I am completely rested because we went to St Lucia for a two week break , my specialist thought it would be a good move for me to rest in the sun and I feel brilliant again. But not quite up to teaching just yet. Small steps! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Now I must say the biggest thank you to everyone who has been so kind writing to me and replying here, concerned about me and how I am doing. You really made such a huge difference to me. Hearing everyone telling me to take it easy helped so much. I genuinely was so heartbroken to have had to cancel my tour and that added stress on top of my feeling unwell. I seriously hate letting anyone down.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have been sensible and cleared my tour diary for this year. I think its' wiser to get better to a point of being 100% well enough to give my all when I teach, as I always do. I can't give workshops that are not 100% full of energising tips ans ideas. Its impossible for me to do anything by half measures and I have a very high teaching standard ethos that I love working to. So I will work on a schedule for 2020 that is really special full of new colours, techniques and ways to be inspired by working in watercolour. News o fthese wil be shared later this year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The other thing that has helped me so much is reading my new book. "Paint Yourself Positive" launching this year. I had no idea when I wrote it that I would be the one needing it. I have had to think positively to get through the ups and downs of the last few months. I have had to believe that nothing serious was wrong with me and that I will be back teaching in the future. This is simply a temporary blip and it is giving me the much needed time to work on a completely new workshop programme. Don't worry, it won't be chnaged in format but it will be even better. I have thrived on hearing artists on my courses telling me they have never felt so stimulated in all their lives. Its' been so much fun that I intend to continue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Well I must share photos but we have two new members of our family. Bentley and Teddy, two tiny puppies who are growing every day. They are Australian labradoodles and are so good for my soul. I laugh each day watching their antics and I have no end of people asking to puppy sit if I travel That won't be for a little while but they will be in safe hands when I do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">So, now back to painting and wow how can I share with so much to choose from.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I will be back on my blog regularly from here in so please watch this space and thank you so much for waiting for me to return!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Jean</span></div>
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Jean Haines SWA, SFPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07371972913650970202noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195072925691815944.post-74833545168875364172019-01-31T07:50:00.000-08:002019-01-31T07:50:02.369-08:00Health and workshop update <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;"><i>USA 2019 Spring Tour Cancelled </i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Ironically my last blog post was titled " We can't always have what we want" and now I can't. Because right now I should be judging the New England Art Society exhibition in Boston followed by workshops there and further courses in two California locations including the California Watercolor Association. But sadly I have had to cancel everything on this trip due to health hiccups. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I am so sorry to disappoint everyone who had booked my courses but my health took a serious and completely unexpected turn. I am seeing specialists. To say I am heart broken is an understatement as I have to date never had to cancel any of my courses apart from when I famously broke my ankle whilst teaching in Australia. There I tried to persuade the surgeon that if he patched me up I only had two days teaching to go after which I would happily return to the hospital and have the obviously needed operation. Even then, with my determination strongly working I did teach the next courses which were in UK albeit in a wheel chair with my foot elevated, rather than let anyone down. To date I have never let anyone down if I can help it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Now the situation is out of my hands and I must follow advise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">As my family and friends keep telling me "Health has to come first" which is hard for me as my artists on my workshops have always come first in my career. Their pleasure, enjoyment and happiness is always all that has mattered to me and it is why I love teaching so much. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It should be a few months before I can make future plans.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">For now I am resting, following doctors orders and painting quietly in my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">This is not how I saw 2019 starting. But hopefully the rest of the year is going to be brilliant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">I have been in touch with all the workshop hosts and locations. But to everyone who has missed out on this trip I really am so very sorry. Believe me, if I could have come I would have!</span></div>
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