Well I did say that I could do anything on glass and trust an old lady to put me to the test.
"Could you paint my daughter's cats on two paperweights? You did tell me last week that you could do anything?' She said, taking out two photographs from her huge, black handbag.
"Er, yes." I said because I had.
" See you next week then." She replied breezily, assuming that a week was long enough for me to do such a simple task regardless of how my order book was looking.
Well I put it off for as long as I could but last night had to bite the bullet and get on with it. After all, she's coming to collect tomorrow.
I hadn't reckoned on the size of the photographs and I forgot that painting on a convex surface is actually quite hard. By the time I finished my eye-hand coordination was finished as well, and my visual logical tracking system was buggered.
I'm almost quite happy with them - Frodo and Alice - not perfect, but good enough I think. Or at least I hope so. You know what old ladies can be like.
Beware old ladies bearing cat photos.
ReplyDeleteIn one of my previous incarnations, I once spent an entire weekend doing a pencil drawing of someone's recently deceased pet cat based on a very blurry couple of photographs only to have it rejected for not catching that "special" look that it had had in its eye.
Mind you, I'm sure you're much better at giving the people what they want than I ever was, and, back then, I still had much to learn about what "tricks of the trade" you can use to tweak a drawing to make it more appealing.
I'm sure she's going to love them. M.
Hope so Martin. But you are right some people are so hard to please.
ReplyDeleteEmma Cholmondeley commented on Facebook:
ReplyDelete"They are purrrrrrrfect.....just lovely."
Dear AKH,
ReplyDeleteMay I order a large angel? Let me know where I need to end the cheque. Thanks
Hi Michelle
ReplyDelete£12.00 they are almost 9 inches tall (230mm) and Postage and Packaging is £3.50.
Which colour would you like Pink or Yellow collar and cuffs?
If you want one send me your address. I am at:
10 Willowtree Road,
Hale,
Cheshire
WA14 2EG
Good to know that you are still out there.
;-)
Lindsey Messenger on Facebook x2:
ReplyDeletethey look great, was the old lady happy with them... ps at watch age do ladies become old??????!!!!!!!
ooops that should be what not watch.... mmmm maybe thats a sign of getting old!!!!!!
David Bell on facebook:
ReplyDeleteAt least she didn't have the actual cats in her handbag
Pink methinks.
ReplyDeleteMichele Osborne
Arran
Torfoot Steading
Drumclog
Strathaven
ML10 6QG
And the cheque will be in the post tomorrow. Thank you
I will post this out ASAP. I hope that you like it Michelle.
ReplyDeleteWe have a cat called Frodo on our road - who would have thought that Frodo would become a popular name for cats?
ReplyDeleteJoan
How strange Joan. My mother's name was Frodo.
ReplyDeletePosted first class today Michelle. Hop that you like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle. I feel honoured that you chose my work to remember. Makes me feel very special.
ReplyDeleteAstonished that you could actually read my scrawl.
ReplyDeleteShe arrived today and looks absolutely splendid.
Thank you.
Another request. Is it too late to ask you to prep four of the small snowmen for delivery to the an address is Northenden? And if so how much? Talk about late shopping!!!
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