The Sunday Art Show - En Plein Air Drawing - Stay Sharpie Street Scene Sketching

This week, I'm back in the car for a quick bit of sketching using a Sharpie marker and some mixed media paper . Parked at the side of the road in the village of Alphington near Exeter, I create a drawing of the street scene. Working from life and inspired by the presence of the fish and chip van (Scoffers) this picture features several parked cars, houses trees and a handful of pedestrians including a dog walker. Great fun taking this little breaks in the day to do some en plein air (almost!) drawing with simple materials. You can see the high resolution version here

The Sunday Art Show - Sheep and Landscape Painting - Purples Pop on a hill top

This week, we are up on the hills above Exeter in Devon. While doing an en plein air landscape study, some sheep come walking into view so I quickly take a few photos for reference then return home to create a mixed media painting. The finished painting is of three sheep in the Devon landscape with rolling hills off in the distance and trees and bushes in the foreground. I used an unusual colour scheme for this one with lots of blues and purples. You can see the finished painting in high resolution here:
 Materials used: mixed media paper (A2), Derwent inktense pencils, winsor and newton watercolour marker pens, Atelier interactive acrylics, medium and small flat brush, small round brush, 3 inch decorator's brush and a giant flat brush.
See you next week for the next episode of the Sunday Art Show!

The Sunday Art Show - Dartmoor Horse Painting at Exeter Art Class

This week, I use interactive acrylics, a medium flat brush and A2 mixed media paper to create a painting of a Dartmoor miniature pony. This video actually shows some extracts from an animal painting artist workshop that I recently held in Exeter. For those that came along, thanks very much for attending, hope you find this a useful record of some of the stuff we did and I've included some bonus info using on-screen captions. I also did a painting of a steer that you can see here

The image below shows how we can begin to construct a sheep from simple lines and structure, here we've used watercolour marker pen and a damp brush.

Contours are a useful tool for creating an illusion of 3 dimensions, this doesn't have to be as obvious and bold as the examples below but these images illustrate the idea.

The Sunday Art Show - Quick Quirky Sheep - Ten minute painting using acrylic paint markers

This week, I have some fun creating a boldly coloured, simply treated painting of a sheep in about ten minutes. Also, included some captions with bonus info and tips throughout the video for the first time. This ten minute sheep painting was created using Liquitex acrylic paint marker pens and Daler Rowney mixed media paper. Really good to experiment with different styles, techniques, materials and time limits. See you next Sunday for the next episode of the Sunday Art Show.