Hand Painted Scarves | Ties | Batik Pictures | Wirral Artist | Barbara Meynell
Original Pastel Artwork There’s nothing like an exhibition deadline for motivation so I worked at developing my pastel techniques and eventually produced some artwork this summer. It was all helped by attending a great course run by Sarah Bee, an … Continued
Materials for Painting a Silk Scarf. It’s really quick and exciting to create a design on a silk scarf using hot wax as a resist. I tried gutta resist once but failed miserably as it’s hard to keep up the … Continued
Batik – what materials are needed? The art of Batik can be practised ‘on a shoestring!’ So what materials do you need for creating a picture? When I run a workshop I give a handout with a list of materials … Continued
Williamson Exhibition The Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead has a fascinating exhibition on at present and I’m pleased to be a part of it as a member of ‘Two Rivers’ Art Group. The exhibition is called ‘Wirral Villages Revisited’ and depicts … Continued
New Scarves I’ve been busy painting new scarves for the season as there’s a couple of craft fairs coming up. The steamer is gently steaming away as I write this. Inside there’s a batch of seven crepe de chine scarves and it will be … Continued
There’s some lovely work being produced on the batik course at Bee Wirral (Birkenhead Centre for Early Excellence). Pauline has worked on a batik inspired by her experience of seeing a lovely sunrise at Birkenhead docks with the cranes silhouetted … Continued
Yesterday I started tutoring a batik course for Bee Wirral (Birkenhead Centre for Early Excellence) It will run for 5 weeks on Tuesday afternoons for adults living in the area. The work produced during the course will be exhibited in February in … Continued
New Paintings I’ve enjoyed painting three small acrylics of local scenes that I’ll put into an exhibition at the Coach House, Royden Park, Frankby, It runs from Friday 21st to Monday 31st August. It’s good to have a change of … Continued
I have work in two local exhibitions this summer. They are Deeside Art Group (known as DAG) from 20th – 27th June at Westbourne Hall, West Kirby and the ‘Two Rivers’ group exhibition from 4th July – 12th July at … Continued
I took this picture while I was waiting for the wax to heat up, having painted the first colour. I’m using the silk paints on the paper rather than procion dyes as some of the mixed dyes separate and that’s … Continued