Spring Inspired New Paintings

It took me a while to get 'in the mood' for some Spring time paintings since it seemed Spring would never arrive here, but hurray it finally has!

This is 'Birdie and Blossom', I love how the colours look quite vintagey and you can just about see the little blue bird snuggled in the tree.

This is 'Blackbird Song', I had this image in my head and couldn't wait to paint the pink roses climbing up the bird house, so pretty.

Both new paintings are now available in my Etsy shop.

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Yay for Spring!

Well it’s officially Spring hooray! The last couple of days have been gorgeous weather. Warm enough to sit out and enjoy. I love this time of year, it’s so inspiring for me with all the colour, the blue skies and planting of new flowers.

This year we are planting fruit and veggies, I will take some pics to show you later on. We now have raspberries planted and will have runner beans and salad leaves going in next month along with wildflowers and sweet peas. Very exciting! Monday I sowed lot’s of marigold and cosmos seeds that I had collected from last years plants so I can’t wait to see them come up.

With all this in mind I just had to come up with a Spring inspired collection of bookplates. These are my fav! So colourful, you can find them in the shop now: http://www.etsy.com/listing/95622701/spring-art-bookplates-set-pack-of-12

And in other news I will be at St Johns Church Hall, Cauldwell Hall road, Ipswich (UK) tomorrow night 22nd March from 7-9pm for a Ladies Pamper and Craft evening. There will be various stalls along with mine and the opportunity for some pampering. The evening is being hosted to raise money for Samaritan’s Purse, admission is £4 inc. glass of wine and nibbles, tickets are available from Kathy Dines: 07980705309

I hope you’ll come and join us if you are in the area!

Blessings

xxx

New Goodies

I’ve been playing around with some new ideas and came up with this pretty notepad. There is only one and it’s an original illustration in pencil with shimmery pink flowers with glitter in the centres.

I have some other notepad type items in the works too so what the shop for those coming soon.

Also, got some new characters being developed so lot’s of exciting new things coming up.

Thanks as always for being so supportive of my art.

Blessings

xxx

Buy notepad here.

Tree of Hope

I am so excited about this latest drawing ‘Tree of Hope’. I’m so inspired by trees right now and the beautiful colours of the leaves this time of year. I thought it would be cool to add some collage to my pencil drawing and it works so well!

It’d hard to see from this picture but when you head on over to Etsy I have a great close up of the flowers which shows them in their sparkling glory. I used some gold paper and it looks so festive and special.

This drawing and another are now available over at Etsy.

Enjoy!

xxx

‘Sun Rise’

‘Sun Rise’
5 x 5” Mixed Media
Vintage Bingo Card
£45.00

As I sat down to paint on Friday with no painting planned ahead, I started off with the sky and it flowed from there. The Summer sunshine and the beauty of the flowers has been inspiring me so much. Such joy to be out in the sunshine, especially when walking Ellie.

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  I’ve just created two new galleries with all my available paintings in, helping you to easily find them. Each one is available to purchase online via Pay Pal, including the painting above.


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  You can find prints of your favourite paintings at my website too.

xxx

niki@thevintageartist.com

At My Side

 

‘At My Side’

5 x 5” painted on a vintage bingo card, can be framed or displayed free standing.

Acrylics, collage papers, charcoal pencil and glitter.

£? You decide what you pay, email me here.

niki@thevintageartist.com

xxx

The Big 30 + A New Painting!

On Saturday it was the Big Day! The day I turned 30. The start of a new decade, boy that sounds scary :0 Still I’m sure God has great things in store for us so I won’t complain.

I had a lovely huge cake which Mum in Law made (Thank you!) and it took me quite a while to blow out all those candles lol

Thankfully the rain held off till later on so we were able to enjoy a lovely BBQ with family and friends. A very blessed day all round.

Thank you all for the Birthday wishes on Facebook, I was so surprised to see so many :D

This new week brings some new paintings to share with you over the coming days…

5 x 5”

{Original Sold thank you! Prints available at Etsy}

‘Sweet Hearts’ A cute little painting on wood, with a touch of vintage. I used vintage style collage papers to make the flowers and finished it off with some glitter (of course ;) ) and an antique wash. Ahh love, makes the world a much better place don’t you think?

The outpouring of love shown to me over the weekend really touched my heart, it’s wonderful to know so many people care. Sometimes we think that ‘we aren’t enough’ or ‘nobody cares’ and it’s hard to dig ourselves out of that pit. I’ve fallen in many times and probably will again and again, but I know that people around me love me and that they are always there to give me a hand up and a lovely warm hug.

Don’t forget, You Are Loved!

These two little gorgeous owls are waiting for a new home, find them on ebay now.

Hope you had a great weekend,

xxx

Everyone loves a cuddle!

Love is still in the air over here ;) This time I decided to mix up the ‘Sweet Hearts’ with the ‘Blue Sky’ series and this is what I came up with…cute or what!

This one is called ‘Kiss Me’ and is available on ebay from today.

Enjoy

xxx

Love Song

Love is in the air! I am really enjoying this ‘Blue Sky’ series of paintings. This one looks way better in real life than I could capture in the photo. It’s so cheerful and pretty.

Hope you are having a wonderful day and if you need a little lift, I hope this painting brings you a smile :)

‘Love Song’ now available on ebay.

Blessings,

xxx

Flower Girl

For Christmas I got some really cool new paints and brushes ideal for great blending.

So I’ve been trying them out to create this pretty ‘Flower Girl’. I’m really pleased with how she turned out and I love that she looks like someone who belongs in a Jane Austen Movie!

The background has lot’s of texture and is finished with an antique wash.

‘Flower Girl’ is now available on Etsy.

xxx

Pretty Pretty

Aren't these pretty!? They are some of the plants I grew from seed and have grown so well ~ I am amazed! lol

Finally the sun is shining here in England and so I could get outside and show you what I've been growing that has done well in the garden. (Yes some didn't lol) I'm now wondering if there are any plants I can grow that are suitable for Autumn and Winter, any ideas?

The carrots we tried to grow were a total flop, the tops were growing really well...and then they got eaten by slugs and snails because of all the rain we've had. Never mind I shall try again soon. Our tomatoes are still growing strong yay! I can't wait to try them.

My beautiful sweet peas that were bursting out the planter :D have all now died back and so it's time to think of something spectacular to plant in there instead, not sure if I can beat those they were beautiful.

So that is what's happening around our garden atm, our back garden is still being landscaped so mostly pots and planters out there right now till we get some flower beds. You can see the before and durings over on my Facebook album.

One last little note, my blog has been nominated for the Dorset Cereals Little Blog Awards which is very exciting and I wondered if you would be so kind as to vote for me if you enjoy reading this little blog. To vote simply click here and then click the litte box that says vote.


Thank you so much for reading, voting and sharing this life journey with me, have a lovely weekend!

Summer is here!

Remember when I started growing my sweet peas from seed back in March and they looked like this?

Well now look at them!





I am so amazed by them! To think those tiny little seeds have produced such amazing beautiful plants and strong ones at that. I'm really excited about growing plants from seed, you can see in the pic above my tomato plants have gone crazy too, they are now starting to flower so it won't be long now and they will be producing little cherry tomatoes yay!!!

Are you growing anything this year?

I'd really love to grow potatoes next, not sure when I can start those, do you know?

Aside from getting overly excited about my gardening and growing I have been working on a new painting called 'Shabby girl' and some other little goodies too. Expect to see them popping up very soon.

You may have noticed that I've been changing the layout and colours here, well I am in the process of making the whole site more in keeping with a shabby feel and I wanted more space here too, I hope you like it. I'm also working on a new gallery where you can buy my originals, this will be up soon too.

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU!!! to all of you who read, comment and buy my paintings, I really appreciate every one of you and am delighted that you enjoy my paintings so much. I feel very blessed!!!

How are you scanners getting on? Have any of you read "Refuse to Choose" yet? I'm still working my way through but almost done now and I have to say it is an amazing book. Really insightful and helpful too. Let me know your thoughts on it and what 'type' of scanner you are :)

Love to you all

Exhibition Day!

Today I went down to the local exhibition I'm in to see how things were going and I was very pleased! There is still a week to go and many of the paintings there had red dots and a lot of the cards and prints were sold too. It's so great to see people are still buying art in this economy, art really does have importance in people's lives. I always enjoy hearing how art impacts people, how does art impact your life?

Today I've been working on some new paintings, including the Oh She Glows Charity auction painting and new ones for ebay :D I'll be posting pics soon.

This little beauty is finishing tonight:

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Have a great evening!

Niki

xxx