Postcards from Portugal

Postcards from Albufeira, Portugal.

Inktense pencils & black pen

I have returned from holidays in Portugal & Tenerife 

with a ridiculous amount of subject material for future paintings. 

Now all I need is the time to do them!!

Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe

I painted Blackrock Cottage, Glencoe for my local art society Snow Challenge.

Not a subject I would usually tackle but I enjoyed the process and am happy with the result.

Starting with a photo I took several years ago without snow 

I referenced similar photos from the internet with snow.

Now for sale on my ETSY shop

Pictures at an Exhibition

Some of my paintings on display with Spalding Arts & Crafts Society at the Springfield's Spring Flower & Daffodil Show earlier this month. Chatted to a lot of people but sadly no painting sales

Having a clear out

The horrible weather has finally given me the impetus to have a sort out. Some years ago my Mum handed me a rolled up bundle of papers which on inspection turned out to be my entire secondary school paintings !!

This was the least curled of them, the rest will have to flatten a bit before I can take photos. I was 16 when I painted this view of Pulborough in West Sussex as part of my Art A-level. I remember my art teacher telling me that the perspective of the pub was all wrong & me telling her that had she been to the village she would have known that the building didn't conform to the ideal - there was probably truth in both !! The pub is now long gone having been replaced by a cardboard block of town houses.

ETSY shop

Added 15 ACEO's to my ETSY shop

An ACEO is a small work of art measuring 2.5" x 3.5"

100 years, 100 paintings

Spalding Arts & Crafts Society are celebrating their 100th Anniversary by holding a Centenary Exhibition at Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding

Paintings, framed & unframed (including some of mine) are for sale.

Happy Christmas 2015

Watercolour painting based on photographs taken in La Palma - one of the small steep Canary Islands

Chilli painting

Red - Capsicum baccatum 'Bishop's Crown'
Brown - Capsicum chinense 'Chocolate Naga'
Orange - Capsicum baccatum 'Aji Habanero'
White - Capsicum chinense 'Aribibi Gusano'
A6 notecard from a watercolour painting
For sale in packs of 8 at the 
RHS Wisley Harvest Weekend 24/25th October on our chilli stand

At last I managed time to get brush to paper !!
Now it's a mad rush to get ready for the show, picking huge numbers of chillies.

Encaustic Wax Painting

My local art group - Spalding Art & Craft Society - has monthly demonstrations. This month it was Carole Boyer showing us how to create encaustic wax paintings with a hot iron. The second half of the demo was a 'try' session and I must admit I was hooked. These are my first attempts, all done in about 30 mins. The small ones are A6, the larger is A5.

I'll definitely be giving it a go at home once I've ordered the equipment - iron, pigmented beeswax and glossy paper.

Robin

Robin, originally uploaded by pica pica.

This was my first bird painting ever. It took about 12 hours to paint and 3 hours to clean up the scan.
Painted using Winsor & Newton artist quality watercolours on RWS hot pressed paper. I use RWS paper as it is the whitest paper available and usually scans well.
View this on my website as a notecard. Ideal as a Christmas card or thankyou note.

Narcissus

Narcissus, originally uploaded by pica pica.

Acrylic painting on canvas 10" x8"

White narcissus on a dark green background.

The original painting can be bought from my website.