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Sue's News - For updates, special offers, class info and an insight into what's going on in my world For your ease of navigation, all underlined text is a clickable link to the relevant page JUNE NEWS Week 26: 25th June to 1st July  When I paint 'Sunbeams' in a class, I always show students the many stages of this painting that you could stop and call it a day. I also emphasise how pretty this would look on different shaped canvases, as opposed to the normal 16 x 20 inch size. I was booked today to teach a triptych of a black and white version of this  painting. One student added moonbeams to her painting and one student gave this whole painting a very light wash with blue oil, giving a snow/frost effect - 2 very different paintings indeed. We discussed other varieties that can be built from this kind of subject and I am booked again to do a quadtych of this painting later this month. We've decided to give each panel a seasonal wash and have a solitary snowdrop on the Winter panel, a single bluebell on the Spring panel, a single golden leaf on the Autumn panel and an 'I-don't-know-what-yet' on the Summer panel. You can see my prototype of 'Moonbeams' on my gallery page . 6 months ago, both of today's students had never painted before. Before the end of this year, both students will be taking part in local exhibitions. I can't tell you how very proud that makes me feel.
 One of today's student's is a retired surgeon. As soon as he settled at his workstation, coffee in hand, he felt at home. He told me the layout of the different brushes and other equipment on his palette was not unlike that of a surgical tray. Which instantly makes me think of Manuel from Fawlty Towers. Remember when Manuel came out of the kitchen with an armful of trays? Basil was slowly explaining to Manuel that he had too much butter on those trays, pointing to each tray as he said the words. No, no, no Senor, says Manuel. Not on those trays......ees Uno Dos Tres.
I can see Darrell Crow's daughter, Andrea, is taking control. She's just launched a new Summer Special Offer on his DVD sets for 2 days only.....you can see the details of the savings to be made on Sue's Arty Party Forum HERE   We have a new venue to add to the Class Timetable. I've just visited with the Reverend of East Bergholt Church and we will be using the Church Room on 11th July. It's a pretty venue, plenty of parking with all the facilities we need to take a class of up to 12 people. You'll see details of this class HERE . Just a few steps away is John Constable's old studio. It would be well worth the stride during lunchbreak to pop down the lane to see this. With the school holidays coming up, we also hope to have some children's classes here. My first children's class in Capel is already full so hopefully we'll be able to keep the kids in East Bergholt out of trouble for a few hours sometime in July also.
 I'm afraid today's postal strike will cause a delay in some of your order's being received (and despatched). I guess all of Thursday's first class postal despatches will not reach you until Saturday. I was expecting some cheque payments to arrive today for orders in the pipeline, I'm sure the cheques will arrive on Saturday but unfortunately I have a class on Saturday and will not be able to get your orders sent out until Monday. Just show's you the effect a 24 hour strike can have on the nation, and I'm just a small little business!
Yet another batch of dates have been added to the Class Timetable page. This afternoon I will be checking out another venue with a hope to hosting classes mid week. Meanwhile I've 3 boxes of canvases to prepare for this weekend's lessons so you can imagine every surface in my kitchen and dining room is covered in a gessoed canvas waiting to dry. We're tackling something quite different on Sunday, by request......but I'm keeping 'mum' about that for now.  I've worked some more on the Brand portrait. The red (well burgundy) background is now finished, the hair needs a second coat of paint and the face needs to be painted also. It won't be long before it's finished. I might even borrow this painting back from my daughter to show in my solo exhibition in October this year at the Cloisters Gallery in Bury St Edmunds. I'm already thinking about who to pop-art portrait next. Perhaps Elvis, as suggested by a student earlier this month.
Another couple of dates have been added to the beginner's Painting Class timetable. The classes for 14th July and 31st July are now full and there are limited spaces on the 8th July.  I've had a bit of......erm.......help (?) this morning. Ziggy has his own opinion on one of my PC passwords and has entered a new one - a very inventive 'hnhweuuy3jbhvtcd77unnnnnnnnn6666'. I guess that's what you get when a kitten takes residence on your keyboard. He's assisted me with my day's despatches, he's tested some of the envelopes with his teeth and is facinated by the DVD printer. He managed to catch my mouse and then stalked the curser. Quite a morning for a little fella, you can see from the pic he's tuckered out and managed to fall asleep over my arm.......I daren't move! I don't mind if he takes a day off tomorrow, I'm sure I can manage
 Although our new kitten wasn't due to be with us until next week, I couldn't resist sending Steffi & her boyfriend to see if it was possible to fetch him straight away. (They can both do the 'sorrowful eye look' very well.) It worked........hurrah! Within minutes they returned with our new addition in a cardboard box. We've decided to call him Ziggy, as suggested by Alan's daughter. After less than 2 minutes of nervousness Ziggy soon made himself at home. He's a very bouncy little kitten and has leapt onto everything he possibly can. As I type this he's fast asleep on Steffi's lap as she sits in my office doing her homework. I'd forgotton just how titchy kittens can be. He's very minute and extremely cute.
 We had a change of plan today at 'Heartlands'. We painted the waterfall scene in class instead of 'Amber Amblings', which we'll save 'till next time. I insisted the students made their waterfalls with just one stroke. One lady almost had to sit on her hands to avoid the temptation of fiddling. She could see gaps in her cascade and I asked her to trust me as all would be fine in the next stage or two. She later thanked me for making her stop as with some delicate blending her waterfall became shiny, soft and subtle. I have to explain to students at each and every class that mentally I am always 3 or 4 steps ahead of them. If I thought for one minute they were doing something that would spoil their painting I would stop them in their tracks. Here's our lady's lovely waterfall.......
Marion, the owner of Heartlands in Gipping had saved me a wonderful image of trees against a red sky. As soon as she saw it she thought it would make a wonderful painting subject. It'll be on my long list of things to paint, but hopefully we'll have this in a painting class at Heartlands very soon. Marion's also requested a tropical island in a calm sea. This feedback is exactly what I need when I am working on new class painting subjects. If there's any other ideas/requests/challenges knocking around out there, feel free to drop me a line.  This morning I toddled off to my first art club meeting. I had my half finished Russell Brand pop-art canvas with me and I hoped to work on this for a couple of hours. I managed to get the rest of the sketching done and have blacked out the main area with acrylic this afternoon. The background will eventually be painted red. I had problems with the left hand side of his shoulders and hair and still feel this is a sore area. A few class members gave some advise and, taking their words on board, I think I have improved this area a little bit. However, pleasure soon became business when some group members asked me about brushes suitable for oil painting. They followed me home to look at my stock and have cleaned me out of landscape brushes and palette knives. These items are already on order and new supplies will be with me shortly. I also took another 2 class bookings from members and received a further 2 bookings as soon as I arrived home. July is getting pretty full and I'm really pleased. Here's my Russell Brand work-in-progress for you to see. Any comments welcome.
Week 25: 18th June to 24th June Well done to Sue Lewis, although she didn't guess the exact number of brushes cleaned (see last week's competition), she was the closest with 150. The actual number of brushes cleaned was 141. Many thanks to all who took part in the fun, I'll have to see if I can think of another brain teaser for a bit of fun. Hope you enjoy your DVD Sue, It'll be posted to you as soon as it arrives in the UK.  Yesterday, quite by accident, I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen in years. We used to work together many many moons ago. To catch up with the family news made us realise just how much time had passed (and how many things had changed) since we last spoke. Her eldest son was just a baby and my youngest daughter was a little Spice Girl wannabee! She caught me as I was loading some paintings into the boot of my car and was asking where all this 'art stuff' came from. When I explained that I was an art instructor I think she was a little surprised, you see, when she first knew me I was a staff cook at the local Tescos. I went on to explain that my students came from far and wide, even travelling from overseas. Today's class however just had students from the UK. The nearest student lived just a few streets away and the furthest student had made a 3 hour journey from Kidderminster. I see from my diary next week I have folk from Kent, the week after that I have folk from Yorkshire and the week after that I have folk from Lincolnshire. I hope these long distance visitors find the Suffolk countryside to be an inspiration. One thing visitors are always certain to say.......it sure is quiet around these parts.
 What a thoughtful and unique gesture...... Followers of Sue's News are aware that Alan's daughter and boyfriend are spending a year travelling the globe. They are currently in New Zealand. They run an online blog so we can keep up to date with their adventures. UK Friends of theirs got married yesterday and the 2 jet setters sent them the most unusual greeting via their website. The image shown here will probably be too small to see, but in the sand they have written 'Congratulations Anna & Matt' and surrounded it with hearts. How inventive and special is that?
Where have all the birds gone? I've treated the garden birds to an ornate iron barley twist feeder pole. Our various bits of bird food are now hanging from this pole. And I haven't seen sight of a single feather since it was installed (which was just a few hours ago!!) I never scored an 'A' in the patience exam........and I'm anxious to spot something exotic pretty soon. Hurry up birds!! I've had a visit to our local Public House, all in the name of research you understand. The White Horse in Capel St Mary has recently changed hands, and with that comes a change of menu. The other week the new menu was not available in print but lucky for me, today it was. I've put copies of both the restaurant and the bar menu in the Apollo Studio fact file, along with other bits and bobs I've been collecting over the last few days. For those that don't want to cook, we have a Little Chef at the entrance of the village, ideal for a full English breakfast. We have the Harvest Moon cafe, just next to the craft and garden centre. They were serving a superb roast dinner when I visited there (and a wonderful display of cakes too).  As promised, the shopping baskets for the 2 new brushes are up and running and can be found HERE We have the small oval brush for sale at £5.50 each. The soft mop blender brush is just £4.99. Both these prices include postage and packing to any European address. I don't know how I've survived without the small oval brush, I wouldn't be without it now. Today's students, all complete first timers, found it a lot easier to handle than the 1 inch oval and soon discarded the larger brush in favour of the smaller brush.
Good news, the new brushes are here already, quite earlier than anticipated. I'll get a shopping basket set up for these hopefully this evening. I think these mops and oval brushes will prove quite popular. I shall be using them extensively during today's class. Just a quicky to let you all know that my communication e-mail address for the next few days will be ayoub_art@hotmail.com Internet orders are not effected and are being processed daily.  Prompted by last week's woodpecker and this morning's pheasant visit I've decided to pick up a bird feeder to see what else I can encourage into the garden. I've spent more on their lunch today than I have my own. With 6 various feeders I can't wait to get them hung up and hope they get found by our feathered friends soon. Steffi was a little confused with the fat ball. She asked if she could throw it down the garden for the pheasant. I had to explain that it wasn't like a cat ball and the the pheasant was unlikely to have a game of football before eating it! Getting carried away, as always, I quite fancy a bird table too. I can remember years ago seeing a beautiful bird table with a thatched roof......if only I can remember where the shop was.......................
Week 24: 11th June to 17th June With the use of a new brush, (stock due in at the end of this week), I can finally present 'Amber Amblings' as a new Painting Class subject . Taking a tip from Darrell a while ago regarding the use of a large filbert brush instead of the 1 inch oval brush, I've been trying several over a period of time and have found just the right one for the job at the right price too. This new brush will be on sale for just £5.50 and the price includes postage and packing to any European address. I'll let you all know on this page when I open the shopping basket for it. If you look closely at the larger image of 'Amber Ambling's' you'll see the lovely effect this smaller brush makes on the bush foliage.  I've just been putting together a neat little fact-file for the Apollo Studio Accomodation . The file contains details of where everything is and what's what. There's several leaflets and brochures included which give details of places of interest. There's bus timetables to Ipswich and Colchester. I've added details of what's in the village and where you can find it. There's a menu from our local chinese takeaway and also menus from restaurants that offer a delivery service to Capel St Mary. I'm sure I'll be adding to this file from time to time with any literature I collect relating to anything of local. It's been quite a fun project and I hope it'll help future guests settle into their temporary home.
 Whilst I was having my massive clean up an idea popped into my head. I have a competition for you all. Whoever can guess the total number of brushes and knives I cleaned today will receive the latest Darrell Crow DVD, Paradise Falls, totally free of charge. The first person to guess the correct number will win immediately. If the number hasn't been guessed correctly by 24th June then I will take the closest number over rather than under. Just drop me a line on ayoub_art@hotmail.com to enter. To make it more complicated, I do not have the same amounts of all types of brushes. But to make things a bit easier (!) the brushes cleaned today were: 2 inch landscape, 1 inch landscape, oval brush, flat brush, filbert brush, liner brush, fan brush, painting knife, wide floral brush, flat floral brush...........(that's right, I didn't clean my blender brushes).
 Today I have accomplished something that I have been meaning to do for a long, long, long time. I could put it off no longer PLUS I felt in the mood for it. My studio has not been used to paint in since the weather got cold last year. Because of this, more and more of my stock items have been stored in there. Just imagine the space 20 easels and the boxes upon boxes of frames alone take up. So, my mission was to take everything out and put it all back again in an organised fashion. I was hoping at the end of this job to categorize my stock, make room for a chair and have a completely clear table for painting again. Luckily a lot of my larger stock items are stored in the loft but some things I need to get my hands on quickly. Well, it's taken me 6 hours, but it's done! Boy do I feel good and I've got my studio back again. Not only that, whilst in an organising frenzy I decided to cleanse and condition all of my class brushes. That probably took the most time of all.
  Here's another task I can strike off my list. A long while back one of my students gave me a hand full of photos and postcards of a beauty sport in Madeira, Porto Moniz. She wanted to be able to paint this for herself in a one-to-one class with me. After taking some time and experimenting with the varying images I finally came up with something as close to the subject as I thought I could teach. With a few last minute improvisations, at the student's request, we developed a rather pretty scene. Darrell's 'La Corbiere' proved to be a fantastic source of research as it is filled with distant and nearby rocks. So, between Darrell, myself and student Val, we've hit the spot together resulting in one very happy student today. Now, I just have to sort out a Tuscan landscape for another pair of students and my painting class 'commissions' will be fulfilled.........unless any of you have any other requests you'd like you/me/us to paint? Feel free to e-mail me on ayoub_art@hotmail.com with any challenges.
Good news to the rest of you who are waiting for your 'Wild Sea' DVD's . The package will be with me on Monday 18th June and your DVD's will be sent out to you as soon as they arrive. I have your envelopes already made up. There will be excess stock left over, so anyone placing orders for this DVD will have immediate availability. I have to say, the customs have taken an unusually long time clearing both these packages. Many thanks to all who write in my Guestbook. This is really becoming quite a large page with well over 100 entries from all over the world. It contains lovely feedback on the website itself and many comments from first time students also. Do you know, it's a great thing for me to read from time to time. It fuels my motivation. :)  Last week's guests, keen birders, would have loved to have seen what I have just spotted......... A rather colourful bird was pecking away on my back lawn. As I went to my studio for a quick brush clean, I disturbed it and it flew off into next door's trees, squawking loudly. At first I thought it was a cockatoo as I caught a glimpse of a bright green and yellow body and red across the head. I sat still for a moment listening to it's cry and sure enough it flew back again, long enough for me to get a good look but certainly not long enough to get my binoculars or camera. After a quick search I can see what I had spotted was most definately a Green Woodpecker. It was probably feeding on some ants.
 How great is this job - part 2. Last week's guests took their lunch outside and were watching Alan and Paul with their pond construction. When asked 'When will it be finished?', by an impatient me and even more impatient Steffi, the response starts with 'What year is it?' Not that we're in a hurry or anything, but we've already selected the fish. I have a rather lovely Flamingo Tree, which is ideally situated by a pond........and now I have some pond ornaments too. Just before our guests left they gave me a little present. I was delighted to received 2 rather fetching pottery frogs. At the moment they'll have to make do with sitting under the palm, but their permanent home will be by the pond, probably sometime in 2008. Aren't they cute.
This morning's demo broke 2 records: 1 - The Copdock Art Group asked a record number of questions and 2 - I had my youngest ever audience member at just 5 months old (and she fell asleep halfway through the demo too!). Despite arriving a little late as I dropped my weekend guests off at the train station, the group members helped me to unload the car and set up in record time (Hey, that's 3 records broken!). The time flew by and before we knew it 2 hours had passed. I've never met a group so interested in a subject before, so much so that I became a member of their group there and then on the spot. I think they are as thrilled to have me as I am to join them. With regular excursions and other guest speakers and members using all sorts of mediums I'm sure we can swap knowledge for a long time together. It'll also give me a place to work completely away from the phone ringing and the door knocking. A couple of members are so blown away by the wet on wet technique that they couldn't wait till my next local class and have signed up for private tuition. One lady admired the demo painting so much that I gave it to her to save me transporting it home wet. 'Are you sure........it's beautiful?' she said. I assured her I had another half dozen paintings just like it at home. How great is this job? Week 23: 4th June to 10th June  Here's a question for you.......has she been eating a cream cake, drinking guiness or did she get liquid white around her mouth? During today's 'Lakeland Walk' painting class I gave students the option to paint this in ochre and mauve hues or ochre and umber hues. We had an even divide and all paintings turned out quite unique. Interestingly, the students that opted for the umber hues had a very oriental feel to their paintings. Halfway through the class Alan kindly fetched my Robbie portrait and hung it on the wall so students could carry on working under his watchful eye. I now have the challenge to produce a 'Westlife' portrait (which I immediately refused) and an 'Elvis' portrait, which I immediately accepted. Oh, and the answer to the initial question.........Lin is proudly displaying this year's lipstick colour of liquid white.
 This weekend's guests are 2 ladies from London. This morning I heard them before I saw them as they had their CD playing some old Platters tunes. They were in fine voice as they sang along to the music. They both had private tuition today and decided upon a lake/mountain scene. I had the usual tranquil music playing along in the background, just to create some relaxing ambience. However, just before lunch I decided to change the mood a little. I sneaked off and dug out my 'Pub Tunes' CD and slipped it into the player. It had just the result I thought it would. In minutes both ladies were singing along to 'Roll Out The Barrel', 'Knees Up Mother Brown', 'Long Way To Tipperary' and the rest. I knew that CD would come in handy one day, I just didn't imagine I would be playing it during a painting lesson!
 Darrell has just released another DVD entitled 'Paradise Falls'. This DVD is a 90 minute lesson showing you how to paint a double waterfall with cascades. He's surrounded the falls with an entire forest with light coming from deep within the woods. What possible stories will these falls tell us of hikers, campers and fishing? What wildlife lurks behind the trees and dense vegetation……? I will open a shopping basket for this item once availability is immediate from the UK. The price will be £11.50 which includes postage and packing to any European address. Whilst on the subject of waterfalls, Darrell has announced news of his first of his bi-annual competitions which will take place in August 2007. Darrell says: 'Using the waterfall in the Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Water, you are invited to create your own original and submit it to the Darrell Crow Summer 2007 Art Contest'. Details of this exciting competition are showing in my forum 'Sue's Arty Party'.
 I popped over to my daughter's new flat last night and took my Robbie painting over for her opinion. Soha says exactly what she thinks, regardless. As soon as she saw it she said 'Who is it?' But she was smiling and I knew she recognised the pop-art image. I encouraged her to walk around the flat just to show her how the eyes followed you everywhere. After a quick tour of the latest work done to her apartment we decided to take our refreshment on the roof. Quite literally you gain access to this through her lounge window. (And, hilariously, I didn't have the agility of either her or Alan for this procedure.) Once outside you have stunning views of the marina and can view no less than 5 church spires. An excellent, if not decadant way of telling the time! Her current idol is Russell Brand and I shall work on a pop art image of him to go in her lounge. 'citin'
My remaining leaving gift from MGC, the B&Q vouchers, have all gone, so have any spare plants I had standing around. With a massive 33 tubs, pots and troughs now planted up and positioned around the back patio it looks quite spectacular. This weekend's Apollo Studio guests will have some nice blooms to look at from both rear and front entrances. Some new patio furniture has given us an outside dining area. It also means we can leave our old patio furniture under our willow tree ready for summer bonfires. So thanks to all at MGC for your lovely present and thanks also to Capel Mushroom farm for their free mushroom compost - these planters took 5 wheelbarrow loads to fill!
Oi, cheeky. For those of you who have asked, no I didn't use a Kopy Kake or any other projector to make the 'Robbie' painting. It was all done free hand. It's quite a spooky painting actually - his eyes follow you everywhere as he smirks knowingly at you. It's as if he knows what you're up to. One friend needs to see this painting in person 'before it's sold'. I hadn't even considered putting it up for sale as it was an exercise, but, I just might pop a price label on and see how it goes. Just this minute received the customs/tax bill for 'The Wild Sea DVD' package number 1. I'll pop along shortly and collect the consignment and post out the first phase of DVD's. Apparently the parcel was selected by customs for a random check and has sat at Heathrow airport for almost a week. Package number 2 hopefully won't suffer the same fate and is anticipated to arrive shortly.  It's 'aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh' time. About 7 weeks ago Alan's cat Floyd, a pure bred Bengalese Snow Leopard, went off on an adventure and we haven't seen him since. He often disappears for days but always returns. After such a long time we would like to assume he's taken up residence with someone who's making a huge fuss of him. But realistically, living so close to a woods, we do feel he has probably met with an unfriendly badger or fox. So, by a strange twist of fate, it just so happens that a nearby cat has had a litter of kittens. Not only that, but the mother has Bengal origin. A few days ago Steffi and myself selected a little kitten for Alan. It's his birthday today and he's had to settle with a photo of his new puss. He's already decided he'd like to call it Floyd. I've decided to call him Gilmore and Steffi has decided to call him Smeagal. Now, unless we can compromise this kitten's going to have 3 different names. Hopefully he'll be with us at the end of the month, just as soon as he can feed independantly. Isn't he just the sweetest thing?
 As a rule, I rarely paint in the evenings. I'll sit and sketch maybe, but never paint. Last night I broke the rule. With a 20 x 16 inch canvas perched on my lap and 3 tubes of acrylic I tackled a painting subject that had sat in my office for almost a year. A friend gave me the image, measuring just 3 x 2 inches, and asked me if I could work on it. I feel a bit guilty as I have other projects that really should take priority - but the exercise was thoroughly enjoyable. 4 hours were spent on this last night and the finishing touches took approx an hour this morning. Can you guess who it is yet? There's a larger version in my Gallery.
Today I've been working on some new paintings. I need to produce some new and exciting class subjects. I need to produce some work for my solo exhibition in October and I need to work on some commissions also. I had hoped to make a summer seascape today but it just wasn't coming together for some reason. So I set up a second easel with a blank canvas and let my mood totally take over. I had no idea what I was going to produce, what colours I was going to use or even the remotest inkling where the painting was leading me. You'll see my efforts in my Gallery. This new painting is called Amber Amblings. I might just develop this as a Painting Class subject. At the moment I would only teach this on a one to one basis.  Just a quick 'Wild Sea DVD' update: Many thanks for your orders so far. Just to keep you informed, consignment number one was sent to me direct from Byron Pickering in the US on 22nd May. I'm sure they will be here anytime soon. Consignment number two followed shortly afterwards. I have all your envelopes ready and the DVD's will be despatched on the same day they arrive. If anyone else would like to order this beautiful seascape DVD you will find the shopping basket HERE. The price is £15 which includes postage and packing to any European address.
Speaking of DVD's......as you'll know, last month we recorded a couple of my Painting Classes. I have sent out a very limited number of these DVD's. I was delighted yesterday to receive a photo of 'Sunbeams' which was painted from the DVD instruction. Considering the DVD is far from professional the finished result is absolutely splendid. I also received a phone call from someone who had painted 'Lakeland Walk' from my DVD. I await to receive the photo, but I am assured the result is fabulous and the painter's wife is thrilled with it. It's already been suggested that I should make 'Bluebell Wood' as my first proper AyoubArt DVD, and thanks to all your feedback on this new venture, it looks like we'll be doing this sooner rather than later.
Week 22: 28th May to 3rd June  Today, Linda decided upon 'Lakeland Walk' as her painting subject. However, she wasn't sure about the purple colour. We decided hues of brown might be more suitable, toned down with umbers and a small touch of blue. The colour tones worked really well and made for quite a warm and stunning painting. Linda was given this painting experience by her husband as a birthday present. Next week she'll be flying in a Tiger Moth, another birthday present. Linda is also the first to have one of our new frames, hot from the production line. We've just invested in some rather lovely black, silver and grey frames so we can cater for most peoples tastes and home decor. This painting looked spectacular in it's black/silver frame. Hard to believe it's her second ever oil painting, isn't it?
 Sunbeams is such a popular painting and the results in classes are always different and stunning. I understand from the owner of The Green Room in Stowmarket that several people wanted to attend this class but unfortunately had other commitments. So I'll run this painting subject just once more on Saturday 23rd June . If you'd like to attend this class please call me on 01473 311938 or e-mail me on info@ayoubart.co.uk
What another glorious day! We were able to enjoy the sunshine during class as we had to take our paintings outside at several stages to 'cook' them in the sun. An ideal opportunity for the smokers to have a quick ciggie break too. As usual, the class was filled with good humour and smiles. The main 'trouble maker' today was Alan who excelled at helpful advise and tips to students, none of which should be taken with any seriousness. The students followed my lead and gave as good as they got. A couple of students are joining us this evening for a chinese meal and we'll probably end up around the bonfire at some stage with a bottle of wine........ Oh, there goes the door, looks like dinner has arrived.  Just when I thought I didn't have any sales at this year's Sproughton art show........ The 4 paintings I entered have been sat in the lounge waiting to be stored away. As I went throught them yesterday I noticed one of them had a red sticker on the frame. Red sticker means SOLD. I promptly rang one of the organisers, who checked out the situation for me. He called back later that evening to let me know that yes, indeed it had been sold. The buyer went on holiday after he purchased the painting and wasn't able to collect it after the show, so no-one was alerted to the 'missing' painting. Bluebell Wood has found itself a new home.
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