Poets, painters and puddings. These three things make the world as it ought to be.

Saturday watercolour days

The first of my Saturday water colour days went very well, and how could it not with such lovely people here. Ruby, John, Bluebelle, Edison and Anne. The sun was generous in her giving, the blossom abundant and fragrant. Master pieces by all. We have two more Saturdays in April one on the 18th and the next on the 25th. The next ones will most likely be in the last two weeks of June.

If you are interested in coming on any of the Saturday courses email me

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If you are interested in joining me on any of my Painting in Provence trips please go to my website www.paint-provence.com

I am still working on the website and still need to do a lot of marketing but the trips are being booked up quite quickly which is really fabulous.

More to come

 

My recent paintings

So this little painting is called Brave Space and is 140 cm x 300 cm and was commissioned by a friend of mine for his amazing home, he also commissioned two more shown below.

This little one is called Burnt Orange Autumn and is 60cm x 180cm it looks really lovely in real life

This is Opio Ice 2 and is 100 x 100 with 22 carat gold leaf, moon gold and white gold, actually Burnt Orange autumn has a load of gold on it too.

Sunny Sunday

The almond blossom, japonica and mimosa are all shimmering in the sunshine today,

a quick little water colour seemed just the right thing to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

I am starting up painting courses in provence please visit my site Paint-Provence.com

To see more of my art please visit tessabakerart.com

I thought I would write a blog tomorrow about preserved lemons for and art.

Blogs websites and very wet weather

Well it is quite an age since I have written on this friendly little orange blog. I always think I am too busy and that maybe I don't have the time to be silly or trivial or anything similar that I rather enjoy. I love to be silly, so here I am again. I was speaking to my dear friend Kristi author and blogger supreme and she said 'Oh no don't give up your blog' So I have been thinking and I was going to start another blog with Word Press, clean slate and all that, but I loathe using wordpress it is far too complicated for my simple mine. So I am going to keep my painters,poets and puddings, because that sums me up pretty well. My poetry is fairly appalling but I love it, and I have just bought the Penguin Rhyming Dictionary and a huge version of Roget's Thesaurus, so I might even learn something along the way. I am a chef and I am an artist so I will attach this orange blog to my new websites that are in the process of being created by me and with a lot of help Alice a friend and great web designer.  Anyway it was me dear old dad who thought of Painters, Poets and Puddings for me as a title for my blog, so I do have sentimental attachments to it.

I would love this blog to be a chatty chatty site, full of arty art and food food, so if you have anything you want to send me, I shall put it up here.  I have been so inspired by my niece Rosie It would be great if I am not the only contributing artist to this site, and just to give you one more link, my eldest sister Candy is producing a fabulous on line magazine called VerandahMagazine.com.au so lots of creativity in the air.

I am working towards my painting trip holidays in Provence. I won't put the link in until I have done the website, that would be a waste of time now. I am also paintin a 3 meter by 140 meter painting which is huge fun. My Tessaskitchen site is up and running and that wouldn't be there without my wonderful sister Sarah's help.

It is pouring with rain outside and David has just gone to pick Jack up from the airport, they are off to the mountains to ski, and they are staying in Neffertitti, my old Renault Traffic Camper van who has now reached the right old age of 30. She is a little tattered and torn, and Jack is now a big lad, so I am not quite sure if they will fit in there together. Jolly glad I am not with them. Its raining here so it is sure to be snowing in the mountains. Snowing and cold, and I don't like skiing down hill very much so I am even more happy to be here writing nonsense in front of a cosy fire.

Oh yes the Japonica is out, and I can't wait for a warm afternoon so I can take out my watercolours and paint the Japonica and the Almonds blossom which is ready to burst bright and happy all the way around the house. Yippeeeeeeeee, Happy days, spring is coming, the warmth will be coming and with that even greater happiness than I have now.

In the Studio, first time since march

 Back in the Studio and having fun

This is a sketch for an oil painting I have been commissioned to do for the lovely Annie Reed. I am very excited, I haven't had the courage to take my oil paints out for over two years now. So when I went into my studio yesterday and opened up the box of new paints I bought myself in Bordeaux, I veritably tingled with anticipation and delight that I had treated myself to so many delicious things.

My mixing palette is 16 years old now and feels so rich and friendly, but the nerves did set in yesterday and I found it hard to start on a blank canvas.

Here is my box of goodies and off I go now to use them.

Buddha, Buddha, Buddha 1,2 & 3

Buddha 1

 Buddha 3

 
 

Many more Buddhas on the way and they are all for sale, I need how to work out Paypal, but they are for sale for 150$ each or 100 Euros each.
 

Cat and Mouse in the House

My cat, old though she is, has found a new lease of life since Barney Cat left, and this morning, she delivered a pretty little mouse, quite alive and unscathed into my bedroom. The mouse is quivering in a dark little corner where I cannot find her, and the cat, content with her no kill capture, has curled up in the linen cupboard and is sound asleep. Oh dear!

Just a start, I had a look at the mimosa yesterday and decided to give it a miss, it is so bright and so yellow, without cutting it and turning it into a still life I don't think I am up to it.

This morning I am avoiding doing my accounts, but as all the tax returns have arrived, I have no choice. Oh dear!

 A demain

Blossom a bit of it

I love blossom, this year it is late,and as soon as it appears the wind is blowing it away. so I feel quite lucky to catch any at all.

I am having trouble trying to put more than one picture on this site!

Golden Days

 

It is raining today and the wind has blown most of the leaves from the vines, still I painted this picture a couple of days ago in glorious sunshine as the leaves bathed in a golden light.
 

Turbulence and Autumn vines

Our neighbours house in the distance provencale and pretty through the glow of the vines. They are quite extra ordinary this year, the wind hasn't blown the leaves away and the rain that fell early October created colours rarely seen, and what with the sky filled with angels at sunset I am in love with life.

I have not written recently, I havn't known what to write, life has been filled with turbulance and upset, dear friends have been ill, and I have not been mentally or emotionally available to write anything of any consequence, or that I think would be of interest.

I have been painting in the calm of the storm, most everyday in the vinyards and peace is filling my soul. Words are scarce but beauty is a plenty I shall share it with you bit by bit.