Finished, photographed and ready to go out.

 

A slighyly less miserable Cat. 

She is looking much better in the flesh than can be seen in this picture mainly because Prussian Blue is such a hard colour to reproduce. Its a moody night time colour. 

Ive come indooresto work on some small cats paintings in oil.

 

This is the time of the year when I need to get busy.  Pretty soon I will hopefully have people knocking on the door for work and I need to have an offering.. Its really hard to get started after Christmas. This is where a good sense of discipline comes in and I feel so much better. The ideas start to flow and it all comes back,slowly.

 

Working on an old favourite subject to get me going again. Calella. Costa Brava.

 

This super 100 x 90 cm Paintinmg of Marrakesh id now for sale. Framed in waxed off white flat 3 inch frame with gold slip.

£ 2015 as a Januart sale offer. First come first served.

This is a small 60 x 30 cm start.

Finished. A bit wonky but thats my camera . Great I can move on.

Once I start one of these big ones it`s impossible to stop without loosing momentum. Should get finished tomorrow so I can work on some smaller ones. Image is a bit skewwiff!

And here is a 100cm x 90 cm that I have been building up over the last few days. Its coming along nicely I think. 

 

Well it started in acrylic and now its moved in to oil. Its a long way from being finshed yet and its not to pl;easant in my studio due to the cold weather. 

Day3 What I am trying to do is to create darker richer passages around the outside with the pool being the centre focus and the little houses above . So you have an area that is light in the middle with the outside being dark.The outside areas are scumbled with Crimson and Burnt Umber and a touch of Ultramarine. Once darkened they are brought back to life by reworking fresh bright paint.

 

These are my little beauties going off to Alderburgh later this week