A recent commission. I will never get tired of being asked to draw flowers. I love them, and I loved drawing these three. They have to be among my favourtite flowers so I was excited to have an excuse to draw them too! Hopefully they have found a happy home back in Ireland. Magnolia Pencil…
In Flanders Fields…… 11/11
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In…
Portraiture Challenge
School was probably the last time I drew a face with any degree of seriousness, and that was 3 plus decades ago at the very least! About a month ago I decided to give it another try. I have always been fascinated by faces, how different light affects the expression and how to use tonal variances…
A first attempt at portraiture
For a while now I have been wanting to try my hand at portraiture, but fear has consistently got in the way. I can draw a face, I wasn’t too worried about that… It was making the face look like the person that I was drawing that I was terrified of not getting right! I…
More botanicals
I was commissioned to draw some of my favourite flowers for a home in Wales… I love drawing flowers. They inspire me and are always food for my soul so I am always a little sad when the commission is complete and I have to hand the drawings over to the client. Some are harder…
Faux headboards and associated trickery
For years now I have been looking for a headboard. I wasn’t very keen on some of the more solid things I have found for sale at places like ‘The One’ or ‘The Marina’ and the more ornately local flavoured decor didn’t particularly appeal to me either. Then Phil found something he thought I might…
Yellow Daffodil
Another commission for a daffodil….. It would seem as the summer draws to a close and cold winters loom on the horizon, people are already looking forward to seeing the wild daffodils in the midst of their spring bloom. When I think of yellow I think of my favourite poem by Wordsworth ‘I wandered Lonely…
A Knights Tale
Living with a creative person who paints for a living my family just assume I can paint anything! I cant, but I’m learning fast! A while back I was asked by my son to draw a spaceship he had built for the game EVE Online that he was an avid player of. I am not…
Daffodil
A commission for a Welsh lady living in the UAE who misses the wild daffodils growing in the Welsh countryside back home…. Palette: Titanium white, Burnt Umber, Cadmium yellow light, Cadmium orange, Cadmium red light, Hansa Yellow orange, cadmium lemon, phthalo blue (green shade), burnt sienna and greengold. Daffodil Acrylic on stretched canvas 40cm X…
Hands, hands and more hands
At about the time I decided I needed to improve my drawing skills I started becoming discontented with our en suite bathroom. We travel a fair amount, and seeing this is the 5th country we have lived in, and it is unlikely we will settle here the house we live in is rented. It is…
Abstract reflections
This was a study of a stainless steel goblet. It had a highly reflective silver surface which captured the light and abstract shapes reflected in it beautifully. It was done with a very limited palette on canvas with a neutral grey ground colour. Colours used: •Titanium white •Burnt umber •Ultramarine blue •Mars black •Burnt sienna…
2nd RAK Fine Arts Festival 2014
This weekend heralded in the 2nd RAK Fine Arts Festival starting with a gala event hosted in the Banyan Tree al Wadi. It was a perfect spring evening (just right temps, and not too hot yet) in an idyllic setting in the desert just outside Ras al Khaimah. The official grand opening where all the…
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