Finished the charity building block for Masham Art Festival!

Finished! Had such fun with this! On the 21st October this block, and all the others being decorated by others will go on sale for just £25 each (bargain!!) at the Masham Art Festival, with all proceeds going to Shelter.

If you are interested in purchasing it you can find details about the festival on the website here- http://www.creativemasham.com/for-shelter.html

Charity Building Block Nearly Finished!

Nearly finished! A few photos of the blocks different sides, and one for scale too. Teeny! Another few adjustments once dry and it will be done I think!some more information about the project here- http://www.creativemasham.com/for-shelter.html

First paint on the little wooden block

Prepared the wooden block to take oil paint over the weekend and put the first bit of paint on it yesterday... soooo tiny! I think the horse is about 4cm tall. He'll be tied up and then another horse will be looking out of the stable door.

Really not sure my hands are steady enough to do a great job at this minute scale but I'm having fun trying and it's for charity so I shall just keep my fingers crossed as I keep going!! :-D

Think it will probably be dry enough to get a bit more done today...

Charity Building Block

I got this in the post today from the Masham Arts Festival organisers... a wooden 6cm square block of wood!

The idea is that artists/celebrities/(anyone really!) paint blocks around the theme 'home' for the charity Shelter. A great cause and sounded like fun so I volunteered to do one for them!

To fit in with the 'home' theme my plan is to turn the block into a little stable... will have two horses heads peering over stable doors on opposite sides and give it a nice tile roof I think! 6cm really is TINY so not sure if I will be able to pull it off but expect I'll have fun trying!

If anyone has any particularly pretty stables that I could use as inspiration then I'd love to see them- drop me an e-mail at info@laurabarber-riley.com! Thank you!

More info on the project here- http://www.facebook.com/notes/masham-arts-festival/home-art-and-craft-project-in-support-of-shelter/248595371840016 I think they are still looking for artists to paint blocks if anyone else fancies it!