Hi blog readers, this has been a fairly busy week and I have 3 paintings to share with you today.I also wanted to tell you that I finished my commisioned work and had a good reaction from the recipient. This pleased me because I always worry when working on a commision that the customer has an idea of what they want and that what I do won't be it! In truth I have had a good reaction from all of the paintings I have been commisioned to do so far, but they are so much harder to paint than my every day work. This one in particular had lots of things to include and I took time to think how to arrange things in a street scene and also to get each bit looking right. Any way I am relieved now its done. In addition to the commission I worked on this painting which I have called Church Street after a street near my home town. I photographed part of the scene whilst out jogging a week or two ago.

Church street by Carolyn Boddy  sold

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I particuarly like the church in the painting but in reality there is no bright light coming from the window because the buiding has been unused as a church for as long as I have lived in my home town. It is architectually beautiful and in my simplistic style I don't do it justice. Sadly it has stood empty and disused  and although I admire the building I have never been in it because the floor is unsafe. Any way recently I have found out that it has been purchased by a local church group who are restoring it. I feel pleased as its a lovely building and maybe one day it will have a light shining from those leaded windows just like in my painting. Any way, as well as this painting I have been watching a bit of the Cheltnam horse racing on the tv and this inspired me to have a go at a racing scene so here it is complete with horses and spectators.I love horses they are so majestic!

Race day 4 by Carolyn Boddy   sold

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I have been working on this one for most of the day today and it took a long time to do. In addition to these paintings I met with some Artist friends on Thursday night to complete our communal work and we were pleased with the final picture which I will share when I can get to photograph it.

Last night I was out at a 50th birthday party with a live band and me and Darryl got to have a bit of a boogie which was very nice and we even had a lay in this morning so its a wonder that we got any painting done at all but we did. This is Darryls work!

High Street by Darryl Boddy sold

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 So you can see we have been very busy and we sold last weeks work which is good as I have to find some fees for my Open university study. The post lady  just delivered my next course which is a short counseling skills course. Oh joy !

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