Showing posts with label Royal Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Family. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 July 2012

'A Right Royal Street Party' - framed & displayed!

'A Right Royal Street Party' - framed & displayed
















Here's a quick peek at the interior of Leicester's West End Gallery; spacious, light, airy and very smart. I'm incredibly lucky to be holding my exhibition here.
As you can see, my painting of the Royal Family's own Jubilee bash, 'A Right Royal Street Party' is at last framed and displayed. Recent family & business portraits arrive next week.
The quality prints taken from the painting are excellent; the paper & colour reproduction are great and I'm delighted with them. The same can't yet be said of the posters but we'll keep going until they too are true copies of the original.
It looks like my exhibition will begin mid-July as it's going to take that long to get the products ready to buy online. I'd like a bigger variety of products, maybe table mats or decorative tins, but they'll have to wait until sales justify consideration, my agent says!
I suppose it's true, setting up the exhibition is already costing quite a bit.

Thursday, 21 June 2012

A Right Royal Street Party!!

A Right Royal Street Party by Lizzy Hewitt, June 2012




















So here it is at last, my newest & most challenging painting ever, A Right Royal Street Party, featuring many of Britain's senior Royals at their very own Diamond Jubilee bash at Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth is seated in a comfy chair at the head of the table, G&T to hand, watching horse-racing on TV. Her butler is phoning through her bets.
DOE is shooting. He has a First Aid kit in his hunting jacket, a reference to recent ill-health & hospital admissions.
The younger Royals are dancing in a conga line, Harry leading with cymbals, William & Kate following, with Beatrice & Eugenie behind in their well-known headgear.
As for the rest, well, enlarge the image & see who you can spot!
Summer 2012 is a special, very British, occasion and I wanted to create something out of the ordinary to celebrate all that's happening.
I hope you feel I've pulled it off!
PS A Right Royal Street Party will be exhibited in Leicester soon! More details as available.