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Happy Christmas 2016
How fast 2016 has gone – it’s nearly Christmas so here is a link to the painting of my Christmas card for 2016. Music is from the album ‘Adore’ by Chris Tomlin. Enjoy! [embedyt]https://youtu.be/k5o_OupN00U[/embedyt]
Christmas 2015
Started my illustration for this year’s Christmas card prescrire le viagra. This is a monotone underpainting in acrylics, establishing the features and tones. The next layers will be oils. I’m recording this so, hopefully, will have a YouTube clip with carols for you soon after I’ve finished it.
Happy Christmas 2019
Here’s a speedy painting of this years Christmas card – Madonna and child (not newborn) so probably around the time the wise men were visiting. Everything started off fine, but went pear shaped around her chin just over half way through – goodness knows what I was doing! This is why I enjoy oils so…
Q: How do you get men to tell you they like your legs?
Answer: Paint leggy females at Patchings Arts Festival! What a great time I had at Patchings – 4 full days of painting and talking to people enthusiastic about art. It felt like a real treat and turned out to be very productive – not only did I produce 2 linen figure portraits in oils, but…
Lockdown challenge update 2
Well we’re past the first week of lockdown and I’ve got quite a few photos to show you. As well as the paintings I’ve been doing, I’ve got pictures from Paul, Julia, Julie and Janet. If anyone else would like to join in, please do send me photos – it’s great receiving messages with photos…
Christmas is getting closer
We have skipped forward a couple of stages here – I seem to have neglected to photograph the first colour layer in oils. Hopefully the recording I’ve been doing will show the progress from monotone to this stage so watch this space. This has now had a couple of glazes of colour over the skin…



