Friday

today....a country scene with NO SNOW....well might be a few bits here and there...!!

Happy New Year to all my followers and new found 2010 friends .

Thursday

sold two more paintings today and managed to paint three more...can't wait to get back to painting...roll on next week.

Had the family visit today and had to cater for 14 people....I'd much rather paint...

Wednesday

Adding a touch of colour today.....another aceo that will be listed in my folksy shop soon

Been shopping and I AM WORN OUT...lol...

Tuesday

well it has rained all day and now nearly all the snow has gone....thank goodness for that.

I just got my paints out and have listed the first one on ebay...just got to get some done now for Folksy and Etsy.

http://www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

or click on the ebay link on

http://www.gweddusart.co.uk

Monday

it is RAINING....wooohoooo...I never thought that I would be glad to see rain !!! The snow is slowly melting...which is brilliant because it will make the roads a lot safer !!

I can't wait to get back to my painting...I get fed up with sitting just watching tv......

Boxing day

Been out visiting today but glad to be back home again...I am staying in now until Wednesday at least....

very cold outside......

HaPPY cHRISTMAS

Happy Christmas to all my friends and blog followers...

Christmas eve

well I have been experimenting in monochrome and here is my first effort.

Happy Christmas everyone

Thursday

One last shopping trip today...it was manic out there....

Now one last day of painting before putting everything away for a few days......

Wednesday

woohoo...I can get the car out !!!!!!! I haven't been able to move it since last Thursday...and now the sun is shining the the snow on the road is melting....all looking good for Christmas at last !!

Here is another of my paintings...this one sold on Folksy a few days ago......

Tuesday

I might have shown this picture before but I have lost the plot now...lol

Today my daughter and I spent three hours out in the road chiselling ice off the road......we haven't been able to get out since last Thursday and I need to shop. My Asda delivery got cancelled and when i tried to rebook it...all the slots were full up....not fair really....so I HAVE to get out to get supplies...Only got two potatoes left and no dinners.....!!!

Monday

well, we are well and truly snowed in now...no one can move their cars...so I took the opportunity to follow a few lessons on youtube and this painting is the result...I am quite pleased with it....even if it IS of SNOW...lol.....

Sunday

still snowed in....so here is a more summery pic to cheer us all up......

I have been practicing skies and trees etc....still got a lot to learn but enjoying it...

Looks like we won't be able to get out tomorrow as there is more snow forecast....I just hope that I can get out ONE day this week as we will run out of groceries and Asda have cancelled our delivery today !

Saturday

well we are still snowed in...so I have been busy painting, so that I have a stockpile for listing after Christmas....

The only cars able to get along our road are 4 wheel drives and even those are skidding all over the place....

I am staying IN !!!

Hopefully it will all be gone by Monday as I will need food by then. I have an Asda order for tomorrow but right now it looks unlikely that they will be able to make it to us.....watch this space...

Friday

Heavy snow this morning....9 inches so far....

Time to stay in the warm and paint.

No one in the road is able to get out and everyone is having an extra day off work.......

Thursday

A touch of pink today......thought I'd be a bit different.

Today ....another Christmas dinner ...weather permitting !!!!! I missed it last year so hopefully I will be able to get there today......

It is the best Christmas dinner of the season, so I would hate to miss it just because of a bit of snow.

GO AWAY SNOW !!!!

Wednesday

another tiny painting which I listed this morning and has sold already....woohoo....

Been shopping all day in Swansea...so I need to get painting this evening !!

Tuesday

here is a zendoodle that I did at the weekend....Done in pen and ink and then colour was added afterwards.

The sun is shining and I hope it lasts until the weekend as we are forecast heavy snow....mmm......

Sunday/Monday

well I didn't post yesterday because I was full of cold and had a runny nose...so I took myself to bed early......

Today I managed to take pics of the 6 paintings that I did on Saturday...so here is the first of them......

I am still full of cold but have lots to do, so no going to bed early today....lol.....

I have been watching a lot of youtube demos to learn how to paint skies...so this was my first attempt at a new technique......

Saturday

Well no picture today....haven't had time to take the photos....I have lots of paintings finished and ready to list but have been busy with Christmas things
Hope everyone is busy too

Friday

this is my little craft corner...not too untidy...well compared to some of the pics I have seen on the folksy forum this morning, this is positively TIDY...

I have the settee covered because the fabric on it was wearing thing and the springs have started to collapse....so I sit on a booster cushion and a few blankets...Also two cushions so that I can sit upright to craft and paint. There are lots of boxes under the table full of cards, paintings and books where I have a list of everything that I list, names and addresses of customers etc.

Thursday

full of cold today but it will all be gone in a day or two. I don't take tablets...just ride the storm.....

Here is a painting that I did a while ago......haven't had the chance to paint today.

Wednesday

The first of my Christmas dinners today...well the "organised" ones..... I love it when I don't have to cook. It leaves more time for painting and crafting....

Here is another snowscene that i did last night...

There is a painting challenge on folksy and since it has trees in it...I am going to give it a go !! No prizes, it is just to see everyone's different enterpretation of the same picture.

All of my artwork and artwork of some talented people can be see on www.folksy.com

My link is

http://www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

I am also on etsy

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

and on ebay which you can link to through my website

http://www.gweddusart.co.uk

Tuesday

Painted this one this morning...then I printed off a copy for myself and laminated it (I don't have access to good printing)..I am glad that I did because it has sold already...lucky lady who bought it because I almost kept the original for myself !!!

Monday

It's my birthday today...64 !!! Singing Beatles song...lol

I have just listed this painting in my Folksy shop...beautiful day, sun shining...thick frost outside but that doesn't matter because I am inside !!!

Sunday

a cold day today, even though the sun has been shining all day.......

short and sweet today....hope everyone is keeping warm....

Saturday

still snow free...heavy rain today so we went to town while the roads were ok. Parking was another matter. Fortunately we have access to a free car park in Age Concern in town, so we used that one instead. Meant a 5 minute walk but better than looking for a space in the multi storey and paying £3.

Yesterday a very kind lady helped me learn how to crop pictures with a site called picnik.....all I need to learn now is how to take photos from a different distance that are still nice and clear.

Having an early night tonight...will sit in bed watching xfactore and hubby will bring me cups of tea....I should have been royalty...!!

Friday

we are still snow free here...in fact, it is raining here now although I believe there is snow about 5 miles away.

I have been trying to learn how to crop pics today but am not doing very well at it.....sigh...why is it that when kind people tell you to do something and say what will happen, it never does on my pc.

I painted this tiny aceo this morning......I am enjoying learning how to paint landscapes...

Thursday

well, we are SO lucky here....still no snow and this morning there is not even a frost on the car !!!!

We managed to get out to a concert last night and although it was cold, ...again...no snow or frost.

Here is another of my paintings...I am still working on painting landscapes...a big learning curve for me, as I spent years just doing faces !!!

Wednesday

No snow today just a heavy frost.....

I am still practicing my landscapes. I am quite pleased with this one. Now my dilemma is where to list it. I would like to put it in my folksy shop but they square off the images and that means that the picture , on show to the public, gets cut off on each side. I might have to put it in my etsy shop instead. I just hope it sells...

Tuesday

well apart from a very slight dusting of snow this morning we have been snow free here. The council even gritted our road...which is NEVER done...oh the joys of having a councillor living a few doors away......

Here is another of my snow scenes.....

you might gather that I love purple...lol

Monday

well here in South Wales, the sun is shining and most of the snow has gone....it is still very cold though.

Here is an aceo that I did yesterday...I might list it later or tomorrow.

I have to go shopping today so I might not have time.

Sunday

very cold today...I listed this cartoon card in my folksy shop

http://www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

I also listed two aceos in my etsy shop.

Spent all day waiting for my Asda delivery which was 4 1/2 hours late without a single courtesy phone call...not happy and have complained. The least they could do is to phone me and then I could have made other arrangements for the day instead of waiting and not being able to get on with anything in case they came !!!!

Saturday

well, a lot of the UK looks like this right now. It snowed overnight but only a scattering....I hope we don't get any more...but I somehow suspect that we will....

I listed this pic in my folksy shop and it has already sold...

I need to do some more snow scenes....

Friday

this aceo was listed on Folksy this morning. So many artists on folksy are having a try at aceos....we are hoping now to get lots of buyers for them. They are so collectable and some of the artists on folksy are doing some amazing work.

My folksy addy is

http://www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

or you can go to www.folksy.com and search aceo

It snowed here at lunchtime but it has melted again at the moment., The next panice days will be Tuesday and Wednesday....we had NO summer and now an early winter...here's hoping that Jan and Feb will bring a heatwave.!!!

Thursday 25th November

One month to Christmas and there is thick frost outside.

Here is another encaustic painting...I love the effects that wax gives when added to shiny card....it would take ages to get a similar effect with a paint brush.

the more you look at encaustic paintings, the more you tend to see...a bit like looking at clouds !

Hope everyone is snow free......the sun is shining here....looks like summer outside now....lol...as long as you don't look at the cars with the ice all over them !!

Wednesday

today a Christmas Westie aceo which is now on ebay.

I have got all the potential artists on Folksy interested in aceos.....Hopefully we can then get customers interested too...

It is so nice to collect these tiny paintings and they are fun to paint too.....

I need to paint a bit faster. Spent a lot of time typing documents for Age Concern today so didn't have a lot of time....perhaps tomorrow....

Tuesday

here is another tiny aceo painting. Misty mountain trees.

a bit like the view from our house when we are in the clouds...

We have blue skies and sunshine today which is strange as most of the UK has been forecast ice and snow...I hope we don't get any. At the moment it is elsewhere in the UK...so I am sitting here with fingers crossed.

I need to get more painting done today.....

Monday

Another encaustic painting today.....

My son has an online ebay shop and over the weekend he sold over 100 items...how good is that????

Wish I could sell a fraction of that in paintings...sigh....

Never mind, I love what I do......

cold today but no frost or ice this morning. People are talking about snow but I have just checked out the forecast for this area and it all seems ok here....

Sunday

well Today when my Asda order arrived the driver gave me a nice book full of money off coupons....I am tempted to sell them on ebay because they are absolutely NO USE TO ME...you see, you can only use them in the shop and the shop is 10 miles away ! If I spend the money on petrol to get there the discounts will be of no value. You CANNOT use them online...how STUPID is that ????

SO....I consoled myself with painting this thank you card. School has only a few weeks to go and lots of people will be giving their teachers little Christmas presents, so I am hoping that this card will sell in my Folksy shop

http://www.Folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

Saturday

went to the local market this morning...bought lots of cakes....mmm...naughty....

We took a minibus full of wrinklies there on a trip. I lot of them have lived nearby all their lives but never been to this market before !!

Here is another encaustic painting of a fairy in a cavern....very delicate colours on this one....

I have also just drawn three cartoons ready to mount onto card stock and then they will be listed either in etsy or folksy....

My ebay bill came in today....ouch...left me out of pocket...not good !!

Friday

Today,....here is an encaustic art painting...I love the colour mix. With encaustic art you are never quite sure what the finished result will be....that makes it a lot more fun.

Today the sun is shining and although the ground is damp it doesn't look like it will rain....

We are taking a lot of elderly people to the market tomorrow. I hope they enjoy their trip and find some good bargains.

Thursday

a wet day here today but thankfully the ice that was on the car last night has melted and gone. There doesn't appear to be any wind out there either. I had one sale on ebay last night and am now going to put a few of my paintings into my etsy shop. No point in leaving them in a box doing nothing. If you want to view my paintings here is the link

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

If you want to see the cards that are for sale then those are in my folksy shop

http://www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

this painting was done yesterday and might go on ebay...I haven't decided yet....

I need to get started on addressing my Christmas cards !!

Wednesday

Just listed this tiny painting in my etsy shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

I also have a similar one (NOT the same) in my ebay listings which you can access through my website

http://www.gweddusart.co.uk

very stormy and windy here today but there is some blue sky on the horizon so hopefully, it will brighten up later!

Tuesday

Today I listed this Scottish Dancer cartoon card in my Etsy shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

I have had some wonderful help from kind people on the Etsy Forums....listing is easy but the promoting is far more complex....a bit of a minefield. One thing I have discovered is that if you google Gweddusart, both my website AND my folksy shop come up at the top of the list which is great.

All I need now is customers !!!

Tonight I hope to paint some more aceos...these are tiny collectable paintings that you can display in photo albums...a good way to invest in art without having to find too much wall space.

Monday

Well, thanks to the help of a lot of lovely people (they know who they are) I am a lot more enthusiastic today. I was beginning to think that my work wasn't good enough to sell.
Thank you one and all. I am now making plans for listing more pictures...particularly on etsy.
you can take a look at my etsy shop here

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

and also please take a look at some of the fantastic art on there.....by some lovely people.

Ice on the car this morning...brrrr....don't feel like going out but we are helping at the Age Concern day centre today so will have to scrape the ice !!

Sunday

no picture today...thought that would make a change. Feeling a bit despondent today....I have spent more money since April than I have taken in sales...that can't be good can it..??
I shall continue painting though....maybe soon when people have got a few more pence in their pocket they might start buying again.....

Saturday

today I listed this "I love Chocolate " cartoon on ebay.....

most of us love chocolate.....is this you??

Not much going on today, so I will do some more painting while I watch xfactor...

Friday

survived last night's storm....the windows are covered in sand now !!!!

Folksy have today introduced categories into their shops and so it is easier now to find which of my work are paintings and which are greetings cards... People often don't read the bio and I worry that they will think they are buying a card and receive a painting !!

This one is a PAINTING.....an aceo which is a tiny painting(work of art) 2.5" x 3.5"

People buy these and display them in photo albums. It is an easier way to collect art without wondering where you are going to hang it....not enough wall space...

ATC's for those that don't know are the same except they are given as gifts or swapped....no money changes hands.

SO if you want, you can BUY an aceo and then give it away (it then becomes an ATC...art trading card).

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.!

Thursday

Today a cartoon greetings card of a Welsh lady. I made this because I am part of a Welsh team on the etsy forums and we wanted to put some Welsh items in our shops.

this card is for sale on

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

Pouring with rain today but at least I don't have to scrape ice off the car when I go out later...

I shall be glad when I get back home again as it is still quite cold outside.

roll on the weekend...

Wednesday

today a purple fairy...well the fairy isn't purple but most of the painting is...lol....

I shall list this one on ebay later along with some cartoons.

to access my ebay go to

http://www.gweddusart.co.uk and click on the ebay link

To see my hand made cards go to

www.folksy.com/shops/teabreaks

and to see more of my paintings

http://www.etsy.com/shop/teabreaks

Thick ice on the car this morning and it is STILL there. Our car doesn't get any sun until at least 2 pm....I have to go out at 2pm, so I am hoping that it will all be gone by then......

I hope everyone reading this is being very productive and selling well for Christmas...

Tuesday

This painting has been done with pearlised paints and cosmic shimmer paints. I love the finished effect.... It was just an experiment and I will probably end up giving it to someone as a gift (ATC). I usually give a freebie to anyone who buys anything from me , so this can go into storage for the next sale.

Quite cold outside today.....roll on Summer...lol...