Last year I started a portrait of my Labrador based on a photo of him at Achmelvich Bay in the north west of Scotland. It was a beautiful morning when we visited in March 2018. Blue sky, turquoise sea, and white sands. It could have been a far off tropical paradise, if it wasn’t for […]
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In May I blogged the work-in-progress photos of the young lion painting I was working on, Young Lion Painting in Progress, and today I have finally finished it. Lions are a new painting subject, giving me the opportunity to study the fur pattern and colouring closely for the first time. The tree bark was also […]
I’m a member of the Society for All Artists (SAA) and they held a WWF Global Tiger Day challenge. The aim was to paint tigers to highlight their plight. The idea I had was a cub with it’s mother, the cub being the future of tigers. Wanting to keep the piece relatively simple, I worked […]
Since my previous blog, Red Squirrel Garden Visitors, there have been more Red Squirrel capers! A new male has been turning up to my garden, and a new female. The new female has smaller ear tufts and there is no obvious scar above her right eye. Here’s the new boy pictured below. The fur in […]
I’ve been lucky to have these lovely Red Squirrel visitors to my garden over the last four weeks. I set my trail camera on the feeding area to catch them when I’m not watching. I bought a squirrel feeder the day after I saw the first squirrel, and it’s being well used. The Red Squirrel […]