Busy, Busy Christmas etc...

Hi everyone, Its been ages since I posted here, I know, but I haven't abandoned you! I have been achingly busy in the lead up to Christmas. The good news is that this painting business is going gang-busters. I've been producing and selling paintings like they're going out of fashion, which is brilliant! Here are a couple of photos of my most recent paintings. I'm really loving heritage roses and have also been experimenting with some deep, dark more tonal subjects with a bit of mystery and a lot of romanticism! There will be more to come on that front, as I just had a geeoowgeous new canvas made, large scale (its massive) and covered with triple gesso primed Italian fine linen. Its a seriously beautiful base for a seriously beautiful painting to be.

Poppies!

I have been working on a new painting this week. It has been a very challenging week, not withstanding that I had to suddenly fly to Sydney for my grandma's funeral which was so very sad! I beetled away at my painting though, and I'm happy to now have it finished. Despite the challenges, this painting was also very rewarding, particularly working with oranges and reds, it was like painting fire! So here it is:

Poppies, 120cm x 90cm

$1200

Part Time and Production

Hi everyone,

I have gone part time at work! Yay! Before doing this, I used to regularly feel that there weren't enough hours in the day but now I suddenly have time. To paint. Its a revelation! So, despite having to wait patiently for canvases to arrive from interstate (the less said about the calibre of art shops in Tasmania, the better!) I have been forging ahead and putting all my newly found time to good use. Here are a few of the paintings I have done in the last week:

 Mister Lincoln Roses, 100cm square (I think my mum has reserved this one!)

 

 Purple Tulip, 40cm square, $150

 

Cherry Blossoms, 40cm square, $198

A few New Paintings

Hi, I've taken some better pictures of some of my recent paintings so I thought I would post them (apologies if I'm repeating myself). All the paintings in this series are
50cm square and $425:

 Pink Frangipanis

 

 Green Pears

 

 Frangipanis

 

Red Pears

 

 

Enjoy!

A Round Up of Paintings

Hi everyone,

In August I travelled to Kapunda in South Australia to take part in a "Blooms" painting workshop with the beautiful and very talented artist Jacqueline Coates. I don't think I am being dramatic when I say that the experience changed my life! The workshop ran for six days and was an intensively creative week that saw us produce two large paintings. I went along to the workshop because I felt at a bit of a cross-roads in my life. I have always been creative and have done a bit of painting in the past but I wanted to reconnect with that and start painting again. Being surrounded by beautiful women all painting away producing these wonderful pictures was truly inspiring and I came back from Kapunda with the conviction that I had to continue to do it and try my hand at becoming an artist in a more serious sense.

 

I'm now taking part in a 12 month mentoring programme with Jacqueline and taking my first tentative steps towards becoming Heidi Woodhead Floral Artist. 

 

All my paintings are for sale, as I am trying to build up a customer base and really test the waters to see what sells. Apart from straight out sales, I also offer lay-bys that I would probably work out on an individual basis but can be as little as 10% of the painting price paid over ten months (with initial deposit of 20%).

 

Here is a round up of the floral paintings I have done so far:



Cream Rose, 120cm x 90cm $980

Tiger Lilies, 90cm x 70cm, $875

Magnolias, Early Morning 100cm square, $1200

 



 Frangipanis 50cm square, $425

 

 Red Pears 50cm square, $425

 

 Pink Frangipanis 50cm square, $425

 

Pink Magnolia, 120cm x 90cm, $980

 

I hope you like my work! If anyone is interested in buying a painting, you can contact me at heidiwoodheadfloralartist@gmail.com or message me on Facebook.



The things that I saw

I woke up this morning and I went for a walk. As I made my way towards Mount Wellington a strange thing started to happen...

As I looked up in to the deep blue sky, the air around me began to shimmer and shift and all of a sudden I was transported into a bucolic phantasy! South Hobart had become the kind of sleepy hamlet you might see in a BBC drama on tv (probably without the murders though).

There were blossoms as far as the eye could see. The air was cool and crisp and the sky was the kind of blue that reaches into the heavens.

There was a bubbling brook winding its way through a meadow, groves of daffodils in the shade of the trees; it looked like a fairytale.

I took great gulping breaths of the clean, sweet air and as I rounded the final bend I caught a glimpse of my little stone cottage perched up on the hill....I didn't even have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

 Then, when I went inside said stone cottage I thought I heard a distant rumbling and quite possibly a thunder clap. I noticed that the carpet could probably do with a vacuum, there was a teetering skyscraper of dishes on the sink (at least they were clean), and a basket of washing that was doing its very best imitation of Mount Wellington. Well, it was good while it lasted.

Spring!

I have a large deciduous tree in my back yard, I think its an English Ash. Before I moved here I had never experienced a deciduous tree from such close proximity and I believed that such trees simply had leaves in summer and bare branches in winter. I was wrong! Its fascinating to watch the progression of the seasons through this tree as it is constantly changing.

 



English Ash Tree

 

No sooner has autumn turned the leaves golden and released them from their home on the branches, then a few days later there are the tiniest little buds starting to form for the new leaves. Last week I went interstate for a family wedding and mini holiday and the tree looked bare with tiny little new buds. Six days later, I have leaves! The tree is festooned with greenery! In fact, my whole garden has seemingly sprung!

 

The daffodils and jonquils nod their yellow heads in the breeze,

there are vibrant anemones, daisies and poppies bordering the vegie patch,

beautiful pink blossoms on the fruit trees,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the whole thing topped off by the heady aroma of daphne. Its a lovely welcome home!