Gail Lea

Good for the soul ... get out of the Big Smoke ..and into the South African Bush ..beautiful weather ..Friends and family

Happy Father's Day to the Best Dad ...miss our daily chats and good times 💙 Love You Dad❤️... first Father's Day without my Dad 😢

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Design Joburg starts today at the Sandton Convention Centre!...look out for the stand..here's a sneak peak.. including a couple of my paintings at .international gallery
I walked around the event late yesterday while they were setting up WOW..it looks amazing! 👌 🧡

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Theae are the 2 Funky Fish I painted when we went down to for Easter
There are 300mm x 300mm painted on a wood panel ..ready to be framed and hung up in your beach house
Mixed media collage paintings mostly fabric, , pens and a bit of bling
They are available at
Hogarth Int Art Gallery in Viola in Kenton
It's more fun painting beachey paintings when I'm at the coast

Happy Mother's Day
Awesome Mom's 💕💗🌸
I hope you have a lovely day! 💗

My Beautiful Boy Buff crossed over the rainbow 🌈 bridge this morning 💙 😍 ❤️ he had a good long life ..he was an amazing constant companion in my life and I will miss him so much 😢💙..

In between painting fish there was time to enjoy the Beautiful Eastern Cape...Kenton and Port Elizabeth and lovely to see old friends


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I'm on a roll

Black and white focusing on value
Upclose and
The size is 300mm x 300mm black and white acrylic, Charcoal, posca pens and chalk paint

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In between cutting up loads of fabric for my next collage flower painting..it feels really good to just let go and have fun with pink
This painting is
300mm x 300mm shown and upclose
It's painted on a 6mm wood panel. I used a palette knife, acrylic paints, crayons, Charcoal and chalk paint 💗💗💗🎨🎨🎨
Look out for more of this series in a variety of colours






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I kept going back to this
Flower Power Pot and added and changed some of the colours ..finally decided to charge part of the background and now I'm happy with it ☺
Keep working it until you're happy with your painting ..its OK to cover areas up
The original is
760mm x 760mm
And the affordable prints will be up on my Etsy shop shortly

I also managed to finish this Diptych this week ...
very muted down tones for me
Pink always manages to creep in 💗
Working on my new Inspiration and Desire boards.. slowly

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Yesterday's one on one workshop was so much fun with you Thando 💕...
creating our own
"Flower Power Pots" .. a similar palette and yet a totally different look

We created a huge mess cutting up fabric and brocade. We used gold leaf, beads and lace as well as
and paint pens
The size is 300mm x 300mm on MDF board
Shown here and

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Here are the Flower Power Pot Series hanging out together
All of them are mixed media painting with collage ..I have used fabric and not paper on them. Chalk paint and acrylic paints, feathers and bling for fun and interest, highlighted with white, gold and other posca pens a couple are painted on wooden boards and the 3 big ones are on stretched canvases
The originals are available and they will all be on my Affordable Art Shop on Etsy as instant download prints from wherever you are in the world
I'm so enjoying working with all these different substrates


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This bright and colourful painting from my
Flower Power Pot series is now finished ..here it is up close and in a new ...I've used cotton fabric in an array of colours in flowers and the leaves, chalkpaint, acrylic paint. I've used gold metallic paints to highlight the flowers and the leaves. I prefer using modge podge to gel medium to glue the fabric to my canvas

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How's this for a perfect day in our Mother City ..the start of a long weekend

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Happy Friday!

New from my
Flower Power Pots series shown here and progress pics
I've never used feathers in my work before ...they just finished off this flower pot for me
I think there are about 5 to 6 layers in this painting


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I'm calling this painting done ..yay ...its part of my
"Flower Power Pot" Series
I hope it warms up your Monday!! 🎨🎨🎨
The size is 510mm x 510mm
The original is available..dm me
I've used fabric, acrylic paint, chalk paint, gold pens and paint pens
The instant download is available on my Etsy shop..
Download my FREE Heart Painting ...my gift to you 💗click on my Bio or go to
www.gailleaart.com
For free tips and tricks ..click on my Bio 🌻🌻🌻

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Last night we got to celebrate my Sweet friend Claire's 50th..what a fun night!!
Love You Friend ❤

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We used this Heart Painting as the backdrop for our Valentine's Day Gifting ..worked quite well don't you think?

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Kiki waiting for me to get back to my Heart Paintings

Look out for the personalised that I'm busy with

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I finished off this
Love You Heart painting today and I've put it insitu ..its
610mm x 610mm painted on a stretched canvas - R2950 free courier in SA ..ive used acrylics and chalk paint, gold metallic powder, and paint pens the original is available and the print will be up on my Etsy shop shortly as a digital download ..onto the next one ..

My very demanding studio companion Lupa

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Number 3 in my Springtime Series
750mm x 750mm mixed media on a stretched canvas

I've used acrylics, chalkpaint, collage, an array of fabrics and paint pens

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I've made progress on this Springtime painting this weekend ..its nearly finished
The size is 750mm x 750mm mixed media on canvas

What substrates do you use in your mixed media pieces?

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Number 2 in this mixed media series of Springtime is done

300mm x 300mm
On a wood panel