Monday, 30 December 2013

Winter stroll

Winter stroll oil.  40cm x 50cm

Wanted to paint a winter scene for a while. 

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Autumn Woodland framed

Framed up Autumn wood

Found a frame that I think suits the picture. 

Autumn Woodland

Autumn woodland watercolour A4

I wanted to paint another woodland picture.  I enjoyed painting the small wintery one and moonlight one so much.  
I hope to try this in oils at some point too.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Murphy the Deerhound Lercher - Watercolour

Murphy the Deerhound Lercher - Watercolour

A good friend asked if I could paint his Mum's dog for him. 
I loved painting all the hair!  Beautiful dog and an absolute pleasure to paint.

Friends Labrador watercolour

Mazy watercolour

A friend asked if I could paint her daughters labrador when I forgot to take anything to do to the last art group.
She was very happy when I turned up with the picture finished last week.

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

London Plein air oil

London Plein air oil

I went out painting the other afternoon with the Brass Monkeys plein air group. 
Had a wonderful afternoon painting whilst feeling terrified at how many people stopped to watch whilst we painted!!!  Something I need to get used to :)

Monday, 7 October 2013

River Oil - Kidlington

River Oil

Painted from a photograph I took several weeks ago when out walking our dog Marlowe.  The light was just beautiful that day and I wanted to see if I could paint the water convincingly.

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Poppy heads watercolour

Poppy heads watercolour

I added a blue wash to the background to add more life to this painting.  The poppy heads looked a little dull on a white background.

Friday, 6 September 2013

Irises framed up

Framed the Iris painting last night.

I like the double white mount.  I think this sets the painting off quite nicely.

Purple Irises

Purple Irises watercolour

Back to my comfort zone with this painting.

Moonlight woods

Moonlight woods watercolour

Tried a night time version of my woods.

Farmer

Farmer watercolour

Trying to do more country scenes and add life to my paintings by putting people and animals in to them.