So I moved house recently and that made it a bit difficult to paint anything, mainly because I'd packed all my art stuff. Oh, and the added inconvenience of basically everything involved in moving house including those weird periods of confusing limbo where nothing happens, fraught periods where everything happens, all with a fairly unhealthy dose of extreme frustration mixed in. But hey - it's all good and the paints are back out. I am taking up the monthly art group challenges again; la...

So I've been trying out some new things recently as well as returning to some favourite themes. I am also preparing to launch an Etsy shop so have been building up some stock and preparing photographs - more on that when there's news. This painting is featured in the Acrylics section and this is a new style of painting for me which I really like. I have some more ideas so when I have time, I will hopefully be adding a few more like this. I have also done my first proper palette knif...

...since I put something in News but I have been busy doing paintings and reading loads of books and doing boring stuff like working fulltime, how ghastly. I am doing monthly challenges set by my local art group and also by my daughter; some of these are now on the website so check out the Acrylics section and Misc Media. I've also been creating some cartoons based on my cats who are delightful and revolting in equal measure; these are currently on Instagram (mellyhendy_art) along with a bu...

Coz I'm on a mission to get stuff finished. And started. But mainly finished. I think there are currently fifteen paintings on my list to do and that doesn't include a growing list of illustrations for a story entirely written as poetry which I've been working on (on and off) since I was sixteen, so it's only taken me 573 years to not finish it. Certainly feels like it. There are so many projects I want to work on and I keep getting distracted by things like ad hoc art challenges, a...

A Basic Guide to doing cheap acrylic flow Refusing to be thwarted by acrylic flow, I decided to do my own thing and not worry about trying to replicate what more experienced people have achieved.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m in awe of the amazing pictures that have been created by those who know what they’re doing and have all the right products, but I didn’t want to spend a lot on paints and flow mediums and the equipment with which to create flow paintings, but that’s coz I’m a bit of a ti...