Paintings of animals and birds
Fantasy Birds… Over Christmas I’m trying to keep up daily painting without slaving away at the easel, so these lovelies are what’s emerging from my playful paint brush. They don’t originate fully formed in my imagination but rather evolve at warp-factor speed – my imagination working intuitively alongside a speedy brush. If you’re interested to…
Dog Portrait – Who’s “Naughty or Nice” this Christmas? Daily paintings for advent – 24rd December 2013. Here’s Pip, and this is how she likes to spend her mornings – lazing on my tartan blanket… and doesn’t she look cozy? She is very well behaved – and yet, there is definitely something mischievous in those…
Piggy Paintings “Pigs in Pursuit” and “Peppermint Pig” Daily paintings for advent – 23rd December 2013. Ulster Folk Museum piglets follow their mother in pursuit of food – and later a little piggy looks happily satisfied after his munch. These two paintings just seem to belong together. Original pig paintings in acrylic on canvas, each measuring…
“Red Red Robin” My twenty-second daily painting for advent – 22nd December 2013. Perched in our Laburnum tree after the flowers had fallen, this young robin added a complimentary red amongst the foliage. The friendliest fellow in the garden – and another sweet song! Not so much a Christmas robin… with the shortest day just passed…
Zebra Finch Painting – “The Littlest Birds sing the Prettiest Songs” My twenty-first painting for advent – 21th December 2013. A resident of the aviary at Ward Park in Bangor – another favourite (is that allowed?) The zebra finches are chirpy and pretty like the chorus of this Be Good Tanyas’ song: The Be Good…
Fantasy Sea Bird Painting – and a little about the painting process… My twentieth painting for advent – 20th December 2013. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to paint – or I’m just too indecicive and there are so many options… I consulted a sketchbook – and found some quick sketches done at the beach in…
“Graham the Gull” – a pointillist portrait of a seagull My nineteenth painting for advent, 19th December 2013. Back to the beach with my camera where I managed very few decent photographs… The gulls just seemsed to blend into the water and all other wildlife was moving too quickly for the poor light conditions. But…
Sam the Lamb painting My eighteenth painting for advent, 18th December 2013. As Christmas approaches are my animals becoming a little more festive? I haven’t been to a nativity play for a long, long time… maybe since I was in one myself, as a shepherd. Ahh – maybe this is my lamb! Original painting…
“Ewe with a View” sheep painting My seventeenth painting for advent, 17th December 2013. With a panoramic backdrop of Belfast Lough and the Antrim Hills, this ewe and her brood really have to be the most scenic sheep in the field. I remembered to photograph the painting as I worked to give an indication of…
This Little Piggy Painting – is my sixteenth painting for advent, 16th December 2013. On the rampage, this boisterous fella charges out for a feed… his morning snack is a pile of turnip peelings. He’s not having roast beef but, then again, he’s not going to market either – turnip is just grand! Original pig…
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