Scroll right down to read about the exciting Ucare project. If you are able to visit me at Aston Tirrold during Artweeks on the 21st and 22nd May, you'll see these tulips I was experimenting with, for the *Ucare Tulip Project...but - they were snapped up in the first hour at the opening of Artweeks! I have been experimenting with how I would like to paint tulips at Art in Action and I think I have found a way forward. The challenges I set myself were: Oil painting … [Read more...]
The great tulip project – thinking aloud
I have been invited to paint tulips in oils at Art in Action in the charity tent this year. Whoopee! This is the tent to raise awareness and funds for the cancer charity, Ucare. Ucare's emblem is a tulip and the official tulip is Tulipa Caresse, a very pretty pink tulip. We can paint any colour and any variety of tulip. So I started off buying 50 tulips from a flower wholesaler to: a) Produce my large tulip painting as a donation to the UCare charity auction and b) To start envisaging the four … [Read more...]