Monday 26 November 2012

A Tulip for Monday...





A bit of colour for an extremely dull day.



I think I quite like this. Was pleased with the way that the leaves turned out.

When framed this will be approx. 12" x 14" and will cost £195.

Friday 23 November 2012

Completed parrots...



I have finally finished my Parrot portraits....
















Mounted and framed, 'Parrots' will be approx. 24" x 18" and will be priced at £295.

Thursday 22 November 2012

Developing botanical work.


I have always wanted to paint what I class as proper botanical paintings and when visiting 
Chelsea Flower Show this year I came across the work of Evelyn Binns which is completely stunning.
She runs a course down in Cornwall.
She very kindly sent me details of this before publicising it.
It was £850 for 3 days and 4 nights. 
Obviously - I had to decline the offer...........!!!





So - armed with a couple of very good books, one of which is published by the Eden Project, I have decided to have a go at 'doing it myself' and this piece is what I have come up with so far.




I do rather like the effort and concentration involved although my eyes tend to go a bit funny after a while and I have to look at something else for a bit. 




Needless to say the picture is nowhere near as good as I would like but I am quite pleased at how it is coming along. I have one more tulip to do then it is finished.

I am going to attempt a 'miniature' white orchid next - that is - the image will be small not the orchid!