A similar post to that of two days ago (Unseasonal Snowscape #1) – a Christmas card illustration contender. Today’s painting depicts a couple of sheep in a wintry landscape. It is based upon a few photographs I took in January of this year in Irby, Wirral, following a heavy snowfall. I painted it in around…
Category: Acrylics
Unseasonal Snowscape #1
I started up this blog with the intention of including only artwork produced from life, so this is a bit of a cheat really. But never mind. Rules are there to be broken etc… Last year, I produced a few new pieces of artwork specifically to use on Christmas cards (e.g.: http://www.birtall.co.uk/fineart/greetingcards.htm). I’ve left it…
Sunflowers, 31 July 2013
I’ve not been doing much drawing or painting of late. The one painting on which I have sporadically been working (a relatively large painting of Kew Gardens from a photograph I took a few years ago) seems to be taking an eternity. When paintings take so long they tend to wear down my energy and…
Osteospermum ecklonis, 18 June 2013
This is the first sketch I’ve made in a couple of weeks. It was a trial run for a new French-style easel. The painting depicts a pretty little flower with striking yellow petals. I painted it in Winsor and Newton acrylics on Crawford & Black canvas. I tried to keep this as simple as possible…
Apricot Twist, 4 June 2013
Another beautiful day and another opportunity to spend a little time sketching in the garden. This sketch was painted in acrylics on watercolour paper. It is a little smaller than A5 in size, and took around an hour to complete. I’ve depicted a plant bought recently at Trebah Garden in Cornwall, a beautiful Erysimum ‘Apricot…
