Miniature Oil Paintings

I have decided to develop a slightly new idea for my portraits. I have used much smaller canvases.

10cm



15cm



20cm



These new paintings are really great fun to do, since I can finish a couple everyday, so I get to enjoy lots of colours and lots of different animals. They are also, in most cases, inexpensive enough that you can have a small collection of them without breaking the bank.

I tested the sizes and colours on my own pets, funny looking bunch that they are.



I also experimented with using "real" colour for the first time in a long time to depict my little Maisie's brown nose. I have also finished my hore in teal, a tribute to the very first colourful portrait I ever made.







Photographing these paintings took longer than usual because I had a little helper...



The price explanation can be found here

Hamster Painting

I have decided to branch out a little, in animal size and canvas size.



This little hamster portrait is only 10x8 inches meaning it is a lot more manageable for peoples homes and provide the ideal pop of colour. I also like it because it gives owners of more unusual pets a chance to have their portraits painted.

June Portrait Competition

What you will win:

The winner will receive a free portrait of their horse or pony.

Details

It will be in any single colour they choose.

The portrait will be a "head and shoulders" painting of one horse or pony.

If the winner wants more than one portrait I will offer very good discounts for the winner.

The portrait will be 18 x 22 inches.

See here for example work.

How to enter

Like and share my facebook page.

How do you know if you are the winner?

The winner will be announced on the 24th of June on my facebook page.

The winner will also receive a facebook message by 1pm.

Degree Show and Beyond...

The unthinkable has happened, I have (nearly) completed my third and final year at university.

We had a wonderful degree show, with a full and lively private view and a really fun show at The Old Truman Brewery.

It has been a fabulous experience and I feel able to make the first steps into adult life.

Overview of my entire piece titled My Death Bed.



It may not seem the cheeriest of titles but it is about the importance of childhood memories during a person last moments of life.

It was brilliant fun and has got me itching to do another show.

Golden Horse Painting

I have completed a painting of a Arabic horse in Yellow Ochre so that it looks golden.

It has given my an idea to perhaps use gold leaf when painting horses with bridles, so details like bits and buckles show up.

Ill test it out in the near future.



I painted this for my first exhibition with my university, so it's pretty exciting.

New Artist Logo

Based on one of my oil paintings.

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Another First - Gecko Sketch!

And another reptilian first at that.

Attempted my first gecko sketch, and my first square portrait.

A bit of a gloomy day, but the photo shows up none the less.

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Reptile Sketch

So today I completed my first reptile sketch, I have drawn snakes before for my Medusa piece but not in graphite(pictures of which will be coming once I figure out how to photograph a 10 metre roll of paper, I'm personally thinking a slideshow type, where individual panels are photographed).

This is a little A5 sketch of a little brown house snake.


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First Post on my new Blog

I thought I'd start a blog to keep my work up to date with the modern world. I have started experimenting with colour, producing very colourful, yet single toned equine portraits. Pictures of which I shall post once I have completed a couple more.

I also started thinking up what my third year university Fine Art project could be. My last one was about Narrative, focusing on the simple way storys get more and more complex, again I'll post pictures at a later date. I want to research Frankenstein and Im thinking of perhaps using it as inspiration to knit either different peoples facial features together or to combine human and animal features.

So hopefully this will develop through this blog, using it as an online sketch book.

I also have a facebook page and my flickr account