SUNSET

Painted for the current PADT challenge

10.5"x12.5" Acrylic on hardboard

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE PADT

10"x14"
Gouache, coloured pencil and pen on white cartridge paper.

SILVER VASE

I just missed the deadline for this  Paint and Draw Challenge June challenge by a few hours, the reason being that I was watching the final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. ( Andy Murray won a very exciting match) I sketched this very quickly with pastel pencils and I'm quite pleased with the result. Maybe I should give myself a time limit in the future. It would certainly stop me  fiddling!

                                               
 Pitt Pastel Pencil on Pastelmat    9"x5"

TEA ANYONE?

6"x 8"  White FC Polychromous pencil on black paper.

 Paint and Draw Challenge May challenge.

MONARCH BUTTERFLY

Painted for Challenge 36 of the  Paint and Draw Challenge. Pen and coloured pencil under painted with coloured inks.

                               5"x7" Mixed media on bristol board

SKETCH

This was sketched in answer to the January art challenge by Paint and Draw Challenge. I used a very old edding 1800 0.5 black pen. I love the scratchy effect and coloured it with W&N coloured inks .

5"x 5.5"

In the Style of an Old Master

Acrylic on prepared hardboard
12"x10"

This was painted for the  Paint and Draw Challenge November challenge. The original painting was painted by Jean-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779). I was quite excited when I first viewed this detail and thought I would use my new oils. I had a piece of hardboard, previously prepared with fine gauze and a couple of coats of white emulsion. This I coated with a mixture of appropriately coloured acrylics using a 1" decorator's brush and paint straight from the tubes and a criss cross action. I then smoothed the whole surface over with a dry, very soft mop brush working gently from side to side starting top left. At this stage, when it was dry I intended to use my oils, but because I already had my acrylics set out, I'm afraid I succumbed! I'm quite pleased with the result. It was quite difficult to photograph. My original painting appears to have more lost edges!