I painted this today for the Gardening for Disabled Trust silent auction. The deadline for submissions of artwork is this Saturday, so I’ve left it rather late. I hope it arrives in time. The trust provides grants that help disabled people in the UK to continue gardening. The silent auction offers 200-plus postcard-sized pieces of…
Category: Acrylics
An Orange and a Banana…
By means of a break from drawing daffodils I thought I’d do a bit of fruit today: an orange and a banana. This sketch was painted in acrylics, which (as in a post from a couple of days ago – ‘Daffodil #2’) I had been using to try to finish a difficult portrait. Today’s sketch…
Daffodil #2
I painted this today as a break from working on a portrait which has been giving me problems of late. The portrait obviously needs to be drawn, and skin and hair tones reproduced, as accurately as possible. For some reason I’ve been struggling to achieve a satisfactory result this time. These problems have been exacerbated…
Begonia #2
I’ve been working on a portrait in acrylics for much of this week, which has inspired me to do today’s sketch in that medium. The subject of the artwork is the same begonia plant that I drew a few days ago. It is painted on a small canvas board off-cut which did its’ best to…
