How NOT TO, paint a wall. 09/20/2009
 Firstly assemble all your equipment.  Mix the paint. Feel happy, ‘it’s going to look nice’ J Move the bed out from the wall and place precious hand painted lamp on the bed Climb the ladder with can of paint and streaky effects brush in hand. See Indigo our poodle, making a running jump from the doorway to her favourite snooze place, the centre of the bed.  Pick up the broken lamp pieces. Yell for ‘help to find glue’. Thank helper, for glue and begin to repair, favourite lamp.  Feel happy. You’re going to be able to save the lamp.   SCREAM loudly, ‘HELP’ as it all begins to come unstuck  Finish painting the wall. Paint the old étagère in special effects streaky greys and creams with mother of pearl, to match a set in bought wardrobe, opposite wall. J, I love painting ‘special effects’J.   Return lamp to spot beside bed, remember to lock the dog out of the room next time I put delicate items on the bed and get insurance quotes plus update home insurance before beginning project. Turn lamp on and enjoy the effect of the mother of pearl wall behind the lamp and the bed, and be pleased that all that fancy paint work in permanent enamels, I did to unify it into the colour scheme of my bedroom, helped hide all the repair work, just keep the lights dimmed and you would never know Thinking how well the silvery pipping trim on the lamp shade, works well with the mother of pearl wall behind the lamp. Feel Very pleased with the work. J. Think ‘I must write into my time management essays how work always has a tendency to expand into the time available and beyond if you don’t plan properly. LOL,’ J          This morning I began the upgrade of my Art Cards, Website, starting with the cards depicing some of my flower paintings, in oils, pastel, watercolours and acrylic. I unbundled the selection of eight cards from a grouping of eight and put them as individual items that can be purchased one at a time. This will make purchase easier and over the month of September '09, I will upgrade all my art print, art craft and original art web sites to make all purchases on line, from my web sites easier. Postage within Australia is included cost and international shipping is arranged at cost. Check out my first upgraded page :- http://artcards.weebly.com/folded-card-flowers.html FREE Art Lessons on line, soon. 08/26/2009
 Small gift card, featuring the image of a traditional style flower painting in oils, by artist, Kathy Shell. How many gray nomads will I encourage to come into my 'Loving yourself', Forum, in my kartslim blog, to pick up a pencil and brush and learn to paint and draw? Today I meet up with friends for lunch, here in Toodyay, and then we will have one more sleep over here in the Avon Valley of Western Australia, and then head towards home base in Northern Victoria and my plans to put my 30 years experience teaching art, business skills and counselling, into print. I have lots of plans already made to begin as we arrive home. I will be getting all our health checkups done, getting myself back to swimming and gym to maintain and build on my current fitness and I plan to finally begin the writing of reference books, much of which will be available on line for free. My motive is to share. I greatly admire the Dutch Masters of the 17th century because they were the first artists to break away from the restraints of painting for the church and state and this freedom allowed them to paint a wider diversity of subjects and encouraged a prolific growth in enthusiasm for the arts and the skill of the artists. I have taught art for 30 years and always used the Dutch master Rembrandt as the shining example of the mastery of light and shade. I will need to research what images of the old masters I can to illustrate my lessons, a quick search on the web today shows that Dutch Master is not just a term for painters, I can see I have a lot of refresher learning to do myself, before I teach again so home work time needs to be allocated and to that effect, my reading material as we journey home will be about time management. I'll be writing about that, in my kathy-shell.com, web site, too. :-). I think I just love writing. I hope you will drop in and take a look at my on line, FREE art lessons in the ‘http://www.kathy-shell.com web site and blog. | Kathy Shell on Facebook  Advertisers, This 160 x 160 advertising space, could be yours. See our advertising page above then contact Kathy to arrange your advertising package. Kathy Shell,
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