Dog painting portrait of head

A portrait of a friend's dog in soft pastel, with small use of a black gel pen to achieve very 'dark' areas.

A watercolour copy of a photo from a magazine. The elevated ear flap would have been impossible to see without a photo.
Mixed media 2009

Painting of Venice landscape

A plein aire watercolour of a famous view in Venice, painted at dawn. Unfortunately, the effect of the sun rising only became apparent once I had finished, so I resorted to use of a white and black gel pens to show the highlights and shadows.
Mixed media 2010

And a classic Venetian scene from our hotel window, with the great range of values and tones

Venetian Canal
Watercolour 2010

Painting of Mauritius beach scenes

My wife treated the both of us to a holiday in Mauritius. In a word - paradise! I attempted to paint a scene every day, and these were the best of the bunch. I used watercolour, and pentel colour brushes, the latter are a great source of concentrated colour. And also black and white gel pens for darks and highlights.

A pontoon is just visible.

Watercolour on paper  2009