POTD: Mr. Moose and Friends (Part 1 of a Triptych)

This is an acrylic painting of several cartoon animals. Bottom right is a pig balancing and packet of bubble gum on the end of a spoon on his nose. A squirrel watches TV, the aerial lead being connected to the antlers of a moose. Nearby, we have a bear eating a lollipop, while some cows in the background enjoy eating a flower. Finally , an owl sits on his branch, except it's actually the tentacle of an octopus! This picture is 1 of a series of 3. See "Mr. Octopus and Co." and "Mr. Gorilla and the Gang" for more details.

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POTD: The Sentinel

This is "The Sentinel", 8" by 24" on edge wrapped canvas, painted with atelier interactive acrylic.

The shape of the hillside is designed to echo the shape of the horse's jaw line and the sky is dark shade of blue (ultramarine mixed with cobalt) to add to the atmosphere, the highlights on the horse are painted more orange than in real life to compliment the blue and enhance the contrast of the image.

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Blast from the past: 'You'd better hang on!'

This image originated as a black and white drawing in the birthday card of a friend who is a climber. That was back in 1995 (I'm guessing!). Then in around 1998 I painted this version, which I came across when looking through my portfolio the other day.
(Looking at very old work is always something of a mixed experience, sometimes you discover things and it's a case of "I don't remember this being this good, cool!" other times it's the opposite "hmmm, this is nowhere near as good as I remember it being" but then you also get some "I don't even remember doing this...but it's alright".)
On the whole, I totally recommend looking back through old work, it's good to see how your technique has changed, and for reminding you of ideas you really should get back to but have neglected.
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POTD: Tip Toes

Pencil and biro drawing of a Dartmoor horse. Biro doesn't seem to be used all that much in art, at least as far as I know, but I really like the marks and lines the pen can provide. One of my favourite techniques is to use pencil and pencil dust / smudging to define the loose shapes and then use the biro to add some fine detail, but with this sketch I decided to use harder lines in both pencil and biro to describe the form, hopefully giving the image a sense of movement and a feeling of being 'captured quickly'.

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POTD: New Friends

Here's another painting that will feature in my exhibition come 1st June this year. This is based on some cows observed on Dartmoor. It's painted on a 20"x30" box canvas with atelier interactive acrylics, the more I use these paints the more I like them, they are so adaptable and allow easy blending as well as more traditional acrylic techniques. You can buy a print here or see my website here


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POTD: Baby Blue!

A cute horse for the Easter weekend! This picture was initially marked out with some broad sweeps of charcoal, some colour was then added using pastels and finally acrylic glazes were applied to deepen some of the dark areas and bring out the sheen on the foal.


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POTD: Lunch interrupted

This is an acrylic on canvas painting of a black cow having a snack on some heather and grass while enjoying the fresh summer air whilst taking in the view of Tors and distant Devon hills from Dartmoor in Devon United Kingdom.
It is painted using Atelier interactive acrylics which allow the paint to be readily blended and uses a combination of techniques including glazing and scumbling for the distant hills, impressionism for the ferns, heather and gorse in the mid ground and gestural brush strokes for the painting of the bovine beauty.
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This painting will feature in my forthcoming exhibition 'Are you looking at me' which will open on June 1st 2010 at the Picture House in Exeter, UK.

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