Art Club Replay
and a chance to buy some original art (for a bargain!)
Hellooo!!
You may have seen that I scheduled two Art Club sessions this month… That’s because my Zoom updated before I started the session and turned off the automatic record function! So the first session didn’t get recorded! But, like a trooper, I scheduled one for the next day, and remembered to press record, and so, voila! I have a replay for you!
In this session I was exploring textures and mark-making, as well as doing a warm-up session focused on those things. As I often do, I chose an image from an old charity shop book with lots of brilliant ceramic figurines in.
I loved making these, and it seems that they have been popular too, because the one I made in the first session (pictured below) got snapped up by one of the participants of the session, and I put the ones I made in this recorded session on Instagram, and immediately sold three of them!
As it happens, last weekend I was due to participate in the Illustration Fair in Kings Cross. It was my forth time, and it feels like it’s beginning to feel like a highlight of my calendar! As these seemed to be quite popular, and just as important to me, I really enjoyed making them, I decided to make some more to sell at the fair, so I spent a happy afternoon the day before the fair painting away, and as well as the cherubs, I painted some Goddess statues as well - bare breast alert! Here I am with the brilliant (and my BFF)
(check out and follow her Substack!) with some of them on the wall behind me!
I have a few left, so I thought I would offer them to you, my lovely Subscribers. Just send me an email at ellabeechbooks@gmail.com and let me know which one you want. They are £25 each (for a piece of original art - what?! Yes, you heard me!) And I am happy to offer my paid subscribers an extra £5 off, just let me know you are a paid sub in the email and I can verify your email address. It costs just £4.50 per month to be a paid subscriber, so maybe you want to take this chance to try membership for a month, and grab a piece of original art for £20!? Here they are pictured for you, the pink you can see in the cheeks is fluoro.
Ok, so on with the replay. I hope you enjoy!
Ella xx
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