Over the festive period I felt that I hadn't done much arting for a little while, so I put some effort into it.   Now my brain seems to have entirely tuned itself in to visual stuff and I don't seem to be able to concentrate on writing!  I am actually doing fairly well on concentrating on work for a change, though, so not all bad ( Read more... )

I met these angry little ponies last year on Dartmoor, they galloped straight past me, intent upon their argument, and I had a chance to take quite a few photos of them, so I used one of the photos to make this.  I changed the colours and textures of the background to make them stand out.

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I painted these four for the upcoming Tavistock Group of Artists exhibition in Tavistock. I can enter up to 8 large paintings and 4 small paintings: I had loads of big ones, but no small ones, so I painted these four.  Because if I'm going to exhibit, I might as well do it properly.   I've bought a bunch of frames and mounts too: fairly cheap ones ( Read more... )

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A friend sent me a quick selfie a while ago of herself wearing a dress that she had made. I thought the pose and expression was interesting (as well as the dress being lovely) and so I made a painting of it - though, I had to change a lot of things.

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... we were painting things inspired by the work of Joaquín Sorolla, 'Spanish Master of Light'.

I painted this based mostly on a photo I took when we were canoeing on the Helford estuary, but I added a seal and a swimmer for no particular reason.  This is quite a large painting by my usual standard, A2 size. I'm pleased with the light and colours, ( Read more... )

A peacock!
I am rather pleased with this because I think it's the first thing I've ever made with coloured pencils that actually has a decent depth of colour and doesn't look too stiff.  Background is brusho again, and then the detail is all Inktense pencils, overpainted with a waterbrush to bring out the colours. 

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 Painting the First: Still Life With Kitten.

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 We were working on paintings of rivers and reflections the last couple of weeks.  I painted the River Lynher in spring.  Then I added a flower: narcissus poeticus.  Then I added a Narcissus and Echo.  I'm still not sure if this was a good idea or not, though I do like the original narcissus flower.

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I painted this incredibly fast, so I'm really pleased how well it has come out.

The Sleep of Yavanna (with special appearance from a friendly plant with tentacles)( Read more... )