Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody :-)
welcome to my little corner of the internet if this is the first time you are here!

My schedule is all mapped out pretty much until June/July and I am determined to update my blog more often this year too !!!
So...I am feeling pretty organised.
I am delighted with the completion of my most recent series of paintings "Turks and Caicos" which were shipped to the island last year.
I have started the year with sketches and designs for a new series of artworks. I am loving painting buildings so these artworks will incorporate some more city and street subjects. I'm quite excited about them and I am looking forward to sharing and exhibiting them.
I have some commissions too, to start on and I have to revamp the local fairy village, with my being the resident fairy!

I am hoping to tackle the whole newsletter thing ;-) thank you to those of you who have supplied me with your email addresses and are patiently waiting for my technical side to advance!

Are any of you lovely people mosaic artists?
For Christmas I surprised my hubby with a beautiful mosaic of our house that I had commissioned for him.
I've always loved mosaics but it is something I have never got round to trying.
Today I had my first mosaic workshop :-)
I love it!
Its not traditional mosaics, its more of an up-cycled mosaics style using stone and found materials and mixed media. Right up my street. It is also very in keeping with my new love of painting buildings and those kind of structures and my three dimensional design back ground, although I have always admired particularly derelict and old buildings, just not painted them. This style also appeals to my inability to follow the rules!
I'm not sure I am the best student as I am already running away with myself on the ideas and things I want to try rather than concentrating on my starter project!
You can see my started piece in the picture and the photograph I am working from.
I am struggling to "copy" this exactly (which is the brief) as it goes against my nature. Even if I am cooking from a recipe I feel the need to change something or add something and this need is even stronger when I am creating artwork.
So it seems that I am learning a technique but doing my own thing, the ultimate nightmare for my teacher!
I am looking forward to the next workshop :-)