I recently spent a week in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland, returning to a lovely cottage we stayed at last summer. The area is steeped in Second World War history. Nearby Wig Bay on the shores of Loch Ryan had been a RAF flying boat base. Cairnryan, where the ferries now depart for Ireland, […]
This stunning American Quarter Horse portrait is my first in black and white. I was able to achieve many subtle effects, despite only using one colour for the entire piece. It was a different way of working compared to my usual graphite pencil on a white paper, leaving the paper untouched for the blackest of […]
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 […]