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Sunday 24 June 2012

Our friend Bobbin!!

We've been feeding pink suet pellets to the wild birds (who are actually quite friendly!!).  We get lots of sparrows and a blackbird (well, Mr and Mrs Blackbird, actually) and also this little fella.  His name is Bobbin Robin and he bounces up and down on the wall!
I love Bobbin!!

Saturday 23 June 2012

Another book painting!!


Here's the painting of me crossing the bridge over the River Seine!!  It was a grey overcast day in Paris that day.....!

Sunday 17 June 2012

Another watercolour painting of London!!

 This is the second watercolour painting I did from the Manga trip to London we took...













Ta-dahhh!!!  This is now for sale on my etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/BeanieMouse

Saturday 16 June 2012

Rotherhithe painting finished....!


A few days ago, my friend Helena (Bob's Mum) sent me a £20 gift voucher to spend at a snazzy art shop in my home town..... so last week, I went and spent it all on some seriously wonderful heavyweight watercolour paper!!!  (Saunders rough, 425 gsm, for the artists out there!)  Haven't used that weight of paper for centuries and since I've had time off work, decided to start playing with it!!!
I used one of the pictures of Beanie at Rotherhithe at Sunset......

 ...adding in Tartrazine Yellow, just about my favouritest colour ever!!....

...and then adding the blue, completely cocking up the effect but never mind!!.....

And then adding in the sillouette of the east end docklands with the Shard building on the left.

Then painting in the Thames.....

and then adding in an extra blue wash on top to tone down the sun's reflections....

Then I put in the jetty on the right and started the railings...

Finished the railings....

Darkened up the jetty and signed.... et viola!!  it's finished!

We got a New Bear!!



Last week, Andrea brought home a new bear!!!  A friend of her colleague at work used to live with him but didn't want him any more - Andrea's colleague said she knows where he can go, and brought him in to work and gave him to Andrea who brought him home!!!
He says his name's Basil!

Tango and Boo were very pleased to see him as well and they said they'd help him get more stuffing.  It might involve surgery but they know where the honey's kept!!!!

The Queen's Party!

At the beginning of June, The Queen had a four day party in London because she's been the Queen for so long!!  It started off with a big boat parade down the Thames!!!

They even had an old Steam train going over one of the bridges!!!

There were loads of Boats - Andrea said there was 1,000 of them!!!!  Wow!!

And that's the Queen looking Not Amused!!!!!  hahahaa!

Sunday 10 June 2012

Manga giveaway update!!!

 OK..... not many takers on this years' manga giveaway!!!  Sullivan was the only one to ask for the Manga books so I shall send both his preferences later this week.  Lesa in Florida asked for anything that's not the DVDs, so I'll sent her the other book from last year.  Which means we still have available the DVD shown above which is ONLY PLAYABLE ON EUROPEAN MACHINES!

Also I have two copies of this Anime DVD, again this is ONLY PLAYABLAE ON EUROPEAN MACHINES

Lastly, is this PSP game.  Well, actually it's four discs I believe of the same Monster Hunter game.

I don't mind splitting this if you only want one disc or I can send you all of them for you to distribute amongst your friends.

Saturday 9 June 2012

The Klimt Book Giveaway!!

This is another book that I want to give away to one lucky blog reader!!
If you like Klimt and would like to have this book (it's a paperback) please leave a comment by 20th June.


Sunday 3 June 2012

Playing with my birthday present!!!


A few days ago, my friend Helena (Bob's Mum) sent me a £20 gift voucher to spend at a snazzy art shop in my home town..... so last week, I went and spent it all on some seriously wonderful heavyweight watercolour paper!!!  (Saunders rough, 425 gsm, for the artists out there!)  Haven't used that weight of paper for centuries and since I've had time off work, decided to start playing with it!!!
I used one of the pictures of Beanie at Rotherhithe at Sunset......

...adding in Tartrazine Yellow, just about my favouritest colour ever!!....

...and then adding the blue, completely cocking up the effect but never mind!!.....

And then adding in the sillouette of the east end docklands with the Shard building on the left.

Then painting in the Thames.....

and then adding in an extra blue wash on top to tone down the sun's reflections....

I finished this one last night so I'll add in the final pics later!

Saturday 2 June 2012

Picture spam and giveaway reminder!


Don't forget there's a Manga giveaway here http://beaniemouse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/beanie-at-manga-show-day-three-and.html which has a load of DVDs, books and PSP games up for grabs.  Only one person signed up so far, and another week to go!!

Friday 1 June 2012

A Day Out In London!!

Yesterday, Andrea took me out again!!

We set off rather early and got the bus into town.....

And got off at the train station!!!  Where are we going today then?

I tied one of my weathergrams to the seat in front when we got on the train!!

And here we are going past Battersea Power Station just before crossing the River Thames!!
Andrea had the camera on the wrong setting which is why it looks a bit blurred!!! Silly moo!

We arrived at Victoria Train Station, and there were LOADS of Union Jack flags flying from the roof!
Andrea said there was going to be a big party here over the weekend!!!!!

Then we went round the corner to the bus stop....

And got the number 11 bus!  We sat upstairs, and I tied another weathergram to the seat in front!

On the way, we went past a street market selling lots of different food!

 And we also saw a funny boat bus!!!  It's called a "Duck Tour" apparently - we've never heard of that!

Then we went past Horseguards Parade and saw lots of Guards on horses!!!  All in fancy dress too - Andrea said it was a practise thing for the big party and there was going to be a big parade as well!

There's another guard on duty.  The horses aren't very friendly though, they sometimes bite and kick if you get too close. They're not pets!!!

Then Andrea noticed it was our stop to get off!!

We'd arrived at the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square!!

We spotted a flat up saying "ER, 60 years".  Andrea said that ER stood for Elizabeth Regina who's the Queen and she's been Queen for 600 years and that's why they're having a big parade and a party!  Andrea said it's called a "Jubilillee".  Or something.

There's the bottom of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and you can see Big Ben in the distance!

We're going in here!!  It's an art expedition called "Turner Inspired"!!!

Andrea needed to use the loo first, so I tied another weathergram to the door.
I have art hanging at the National Gallery!!
I'm famous!!!

That was quite an interesting exhibition really.  It was about Turner getting inspired by a French Artist called Claude who lived in the 1600s.  His paintings were a lot more exact and precise than Turners, who was a lot looser.  Both of them were very good at painting skies though, and expressing sunlight!!

Then we got really hungry so we went in here for lunch!!

We had an enormous pizza and a cola!  It was YUMMY!

Then we spotted there was an art shop a few doors away, so we went and spent some more money!
How fun!!

We had enough time for a look round before going home, so we thought we'd have a look through here.
Andrea says she thinks that posh building with the flags on is called Admiralty Arch, but she's not sure.

On the other side of the building though, is a road called Pall Mall and at the other end is Buckingham Palace where Queen Elizabeth lives!!!  You can just see it, with the gold statue of Queen Victoria in front of it!!!  (On the left hand side of this picture is St James' Park)
Andrea says the Parade will probably come down here too.

Then we decided to make our way back to the bus stop.  We left a card in a telephone kiosk!

Oh here we go - the number 11 stops here!


We sat at the top again and tied another weathergram to the seat in front!

There's the Houses of Parliament..... there's usually a big tent city in front of it demonstrating against various wars, like Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, etc, but they're not there now.  I think they all got moved because of the parade.  It would be too embarassing to the Queen if they stayed.

This time, we decided to get the coach back to Brighton!!!

While we were waiting to board, Andrea showed me what she bought at the art shop.  We got some sketching crayons by Conte, in black, white, sepia and sanguine.

And we got a lovely little travel pack of Sennelier watercolour paper (postcard size), with 6 different Sennelier watercolours and a little travel paintbrush!!!

When we got on the bus, Andrea got out a box of Jaffa Cakes!
I love those!!!

And we're off....

We saw some funny shadow Muriels painted on a fence!

And here we are approaching the South Downs..... nearly home!!

they're so pretty...

Then we walked up the road to the bus stop....

And got the bus home!!

Because we were both hungry, Andrea got a curry on the way!!  We got King Prawn Masala, which is coconut based and seriously Yumtastic, and a garlic Naan bread and a free popadom which she said I could eat all on my own!!

This is the book of the Art expedition we saw..... it was £5 off the usual price too!
Excellent!!

And there's the Sennelier paint stuff we got!!
What a brilliant day out!!