Pastel, 24″ x 16″Oil on canvas, 10″ x 8″I can see looking at this photo that I need to tone down the rear quarter of orange – the colour is too saturated and brings it foreward.Both these pieces were fun to do and it was interesting doing the two pieces with different mediums. I really…
Read MoreThe name is a misnomer – it was two o’clock but I prefer the play on words! We have a covered back balcony (the sides are just wooden bars with netting) and in the afternoon the sun shines through and makes wonderful shadows with the bars. Ever since we arrived here I have wanted to…
Read MoreNothing like painting ice-cream to make you paint fast!! I think someone on the outside looking in would have been rather amused by my running up and down stairs with a choc-ice. I painted a bit then took it back down to the freezer while I worked a bit more on building up the painting,…
Read MoreI think that I have finished this commissioned portrait. As usual impossible task of photographing graphite work and getting the paper to look white even in monochrome. I will try and get a better photo of this. Quick pastel – really liked the way the light was spilling round the edge of the canvases leaning…
Read More6″ x 4″ oil on canvasToday’s daily painting – tube of paint, and it was my husband’s suggestion to have the paint coming out of the tube so I blame him for the sheer extravagance of wasting paint! I’ve discovered that the smoother the object the more fiddly I become and its all I can…
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