Coffee #631

Daily painting #631 5"x5" oil on primed canvas panel

Staying awake on New Years Day required an unhealthy amount of coffee! Our New Year's Eve at Pumula Beach Hotel was fabulous. It involved good wine, delicious food, music, beach bonfires and night time swims....and to top it of we won the lucky draw for a free weekend stay at the hotel! Not that our family need any convincing to return. A fine way to start of the year!

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Endings and new beginnings...2016 #630

Daily painting #630 5"x7" oil on primed canvas panel

A low grey cloud started to sweep across the moody pink sky and challenged my skill at quickly capturing that moment. The colours changed quickly and so I had to paint fast! But I was sitting at a little table at the hotel (tucked away from the eyes of other guests) with my husband keeping me company....and I couldn't have been happier, regardless of how the little daily painting turned out! 

2016 is full of new possibilities (as New Years always are) and I make no resolutions or promises to myself but I would like to try complete another full year of daily painting. But 2015 taught me that nothing can really be planned and to have any huge expectation can also lead to disappointment so I will start the year with taking part in Leslie Saeta's 30 day challenge...30 paintings in 30 days for the month of January. It sounds like a good start! As 2015 taught me....I will take one day at a time. So I hope you join me on my 2016 journey ....it starts with daily painting #630. Not a bad way to start with 630 daily paintings under my belt! I wish you all a happy, healthy and productive 2016!

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2015

According to  Instagram (my feed is @heidishedlock) this is my #2015bestofnine! All Paintings in the post images....and clearly the florals have been winners! 

As 2015 draws to a close, I want to wish you and your families a blessed 2016 and thank you all for your support, interest, encouragement, comments and love throughout the year! 2015 has had its challenges! After falling and breaking my leg and ankle, my dreams of completing 2 full years of daily painting were shattered....along with a couple of bones! But so many of you continued to follow my journey....and for that I am so grateful! I am looking forward to a productive 2016 and look forward to sharing it all with you....

Happy New Year!

All love Heidi 

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Jam crumble slice #629

Daily painting #629 5"x5" oil on primed canvas panel

For a family who has been eating sugar free since the beginning of October, coming on holiday to Pumula is a shock to the system! The food here is glorious and one seems to just spend the most part of the day eating! The food really is a treat and what is even more of a treat is that I don't have to cook it! These little jam crumble slices were on offer on the mid-afternoon tea table. I was still too full after a delicious lunch so I took a jam crumble slice to paint. I took one bite to make it look more interesting and I felt awful! It was just too sweet and I think my taste buds have altered too much to handle such an overdose of sugar. I did enjoy painting the yummy looking treat though!

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The last of Christmas #628

Daily painting #628 5"x7" oil on primed canvas panel

It has taken me 2 days to tidy up and move furniture and put the house back to normal after all the Christmas festivities. We had a full house but a full house is always a happy house and so that brings me great joy! What was even more joyous was being able to open the door to my studio this morning and take time to paint again! Tomorrow we leave for our annual beach holiday at Pumula Beach Hotel...a magical place where my children have been going since babies and millions of special family memories have been made! The Christmas decorations will have to wait for the New Year to be packed away but Christmas is over for another year and 2016 is just around the corner....

Time to get out of my studio and pack my costume....the beach is calling!

My special people...my mum, husband and kids xxx

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Happy Christmas

The clock has just struck midnight on Christmas Eve and so we officially welcome in Christmas Day. The last of my guests have said their goodbyes and the kitchen is clean and ready for new Christmas feasts and celebrations for Christmas Day. This Christmas is the first Christmas in two years that I have not painted a daily painting on Christmas Eve and tomorrow I will not paint one on Christmas Day either! I will spend all my precious time with my family. I have however, been itching all day to close myself away in my studio to paint and I have had to fight off the desire to switch off from all the Christmas madness and settle down with my brushes and paint....a huge source of relaxation for me. The house is finally quiet now and everyone is asleep and although I have closed my studio door for Christmas, I couldn't let the day go by without wishing you all a very happy, blessed and peaceful Christmas! 

So no painting....but some Christmas lights and magic and a ton of blessings from me to you! 

Merry Christmas....all my love Heidi

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Almost the season #627

Daily painting #627 8"x8" oil on primed canvas panel

It's almost the season....the countdown begins. Christmas Day is only a few sleeps away and so as the madness begins in preparation for the celebrations (I have a household full of people on Christmas Day and on Christmas Eve), I stop, take a deep breath and remind myself of the reason for the season! So some beautiful deep red Christmassy blooms from my house to yours....

A time for family, blessings and gratitude! 

Last night we drove around our neighborhood taking in all the beautiful Christmas lights and decorations. Of course it was with my favourite people....my family....love these guys with my whole being! 

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