My ART painted at the National gallery. All art expresses life, in all it's forms, and, all Life is a form of art, both the beautiful and the ugly. Where possible, find play in life in order to enhance the ART you wish to form.

It is half term for the schools in England This week.

Today I took myself and my daughter along to the National Gallery for a workshop on oil painting, a medium that I play with only sometimes, but it can scare some people. Up until today, I wasn't overly confident that I knew what I was doing with it, so it seemed attending a workshop for children was the answer. It was, the answer is to play with it. 

Here is my Masterpiece, it was actually painted in the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. Of course the painting is tiny really, but today it has helped soothe out huge blocks about painting with this medium, and I laugh because it was all about child's play.

My favourite little corner of London has to be Trafalgar Square, with St Martins Church, and the National Portrait Gallery. Then walking up Charing Cross Road, to the famous, Foyles bookstore, with many small independent second hand book stores along the way. Most important is Cass, THE Art shop, where I pick up paints and materials.

Finally, there is a little Italian Bistro, called Bella Italia, on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Irving Street, opposite the Garrick theatre. We stopped in this evening and had some soup and pasta.  My daughter loves the child's menu hot doughnuts, served warm in a chocolate and a toffee sauce, (sorry no photos of them ;)

So, if you ever get to visit, you'll know where to go.