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One mark a day for 365 days

I saw on a Facebook group at the start of January, a challenge to make 1 mark a day for every day of 2023. Here is the result for January 23. Do I like it? Nope!! But I’m not sure I am meant to, the point is to create everyday. Have I done that? Nope!!! …

Happy New Year

It’s 2023 and it’s starting as a warm one here in Norfolk UK. We rang in the new year as a family, including our daughter’s boyfriend. It was a fun evening of laughter, just dance, Wii sports and alcohol-free bubbly. We look forward to 2023 as a year of being happy, healthy, and full of …

Colour Friday Image created by David Newton for Holly Tucker MBE campaign to bring shoppers back to Small Business Owners

#ColourFriday

So today is #colourfriday – an initiative started by the fabulous Holly Tucker MBE the original founder of Not on the Highstreet Yesterday I met Holly, in Norwich, where she came to talk with around 100 small businesses from East Anglia, to promote her Colour Friday scheme. This scheme aims to ditch “black Friday” and …

Art on the Easel

Art College – Imaginative Landscapes

So module 1 is all done and dusted, we were looking at “imaginative landscapes” and that in itself takes on all sorts of connotations, but ultimately we were looking at how to paint a landscape, using a colour palette of our choice from the 4 seasons we had prepared and having composed a drawing from …

Classroom

Year 9 Art Homework

I receive details of my children’s assigned homework via an app, they hate it, but I love it because I get to check they have done their work. Anyway, our son’s new art homework arrived, it goes without saying this is the homework I am most interested in. I am not going to lie, when …