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.

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Manor farm stables

Manor farm stables oil 24x30cm

Painted this on location at the stables the last couple of mornings.  I added Toby the horse later from a photograph. I didn't feel confident painting him there as he was moving around quite a bit :)