Start of our May Holiday in Cornwall

Having safely incarcerated Tiggy at The Gables Cattery we had a really easy ride down to Cornwall. We had a lovely lunch in Holsworthy at the Wilsey Down Hotel. Bacon and Cheese Ciabatta washed down with a Half of Tribute Ale.

We arrived early at Shutta Park to be greeted by Julie and Clive mowing the lawn and tidying up outside. We chucked the luggage in our lovely accomodation downed a cup of tea and set off to Tintagel for our first Ice-Cream. We were lazy and drove to Tintagel and parked in the centre. To earn our ice-cream we went to the top of the town and took the road downhill and then back up again to the little church and on to the National Trust Glebe Cliff Carpark.

We had a wonderful walk windblown in the sunshine along the Cliff tops as far as the ruins of the castle and then back up the very steep track into Tintagel. There we purchased the much needed Ice-cream Toffee crunch in a Sugar Cone - bliss.

Back to the accomodation and a quick snooze before we headed ofef to Dinner which was literally across the lane as we had been invited over by our lovely hosts.

Julie had made her own home-made Cornish Pasties which were wonderful and accompanied by lovely crunchy salad and the guys drank Stroud Brewery Bitter which we had taken with us while Julies Dad and I did our best to demolish her supply of Rose Wine.

Stuffed full of wine Pastie and salad I have no idea how I managed dessert (Oh yes I do now I remember its called Gluttony).

Well Dessert was designed for me she must have second sight. Out came two large tubs of Homemade Ice-Cream Strawberry and Whisky Fudge and Crunchie. This was spooned onto Meringues and topped off with Clotted Cream - oh my I died and went to Heaven.

We both slept very well last night in fact I didnt really wake up until later in the day.

Its a Start - Foxglove in Oils

Been spending a lot of time gardening and worrying about minor eye op but getting a bit more back on track. This is to be my next work a beautiful Foxglove which I photographed in my garden a couple of years back.

Here it is started on a small canvas (16 by 12 )



There you go I have posted it now so it has to be finished.

I use a laptop to blow up photos to get detail correct when I can and you gotta admire a man who sees a laptop balanced on 3 boxed and then disappears into the garage.

Two days later he comes up with this :

He actually made a fitting identical to the one that locks the camera  on the tripod out of wood and screwed it to a board cut to laptop size. How cool is that.

Lanhydrock is Done

I seem to have spent forever on this painting anyhow now its complete. It has to be complete or I will never finish.

All that remains is the Varnish.

Llanhydrock - another update

Worked some more colours into the bluebells next stage will be to do more of the foreground leaves.

Bella in Charcoal

Started playing with my coloured charcoal and did a drawing of Bella not finished yet but yer tis

The Dahlia is done

I followed a youtube video which explained the technique of Oiling out and am now waiting for this picture to be dry enough to Varnish. I am really pleased with it the only issue is that it isnt bigger but it was a first go.

LLanhydrock Woods

Realise I misspelt this before anyhow that doesnt matter this is how it looks now.