May Day - Early Morning

An old hawthorn tree in full bloom in the garden.
Oils - painted partly outside and also from a photo

Stallion's head portrait

A painting of a stallion, belonging to a friend who events him at present.
   I hope to get painting again on a regular basis soon, as I am cutting down on the day job!

Another view from an hotel room - Ischgl in Austria

The Fluckhorn in the background.

Evening in Las Vegas - view from our room at Cesars Palace

Eventually finished this painting, 14 months after the event. 

Surreal - and three days was enough!

Late summer

I was given some inks and pens for my birthday. 

Quick to do with good effects.

Mixed media painting of horses at water trough

A watercolour and gouache painting of horses and foal, queueing up at the watertrough. I hope to do this scene in oil, as the composition and light makes it an interesting picture.

Painting of rural landscape and terrier dog

A winter scene on neighbouring farmland late in the afternoon. I used a photo for the composition, and used the  'Paintbox' app on my iphone to record the tones and values, particularly the greens, blues and orange-brown on site. This worked well, and much better than relying on the colours in the photo.  I studied several of Constable's paintings using the very useful 'zoom' facility on the National Gallery website, to see how he painted the bare trees. No shortcuts unfortunately, just painstaking painting each branch, receding in value towards the ends. The terrier is 'Bess', who made a living trying to torment rabbits, without much success.

Terrier hunting!