Delphi Valley Ireland – a journey into my visual memory Driving through the Delphi Valley in Connemara on route to Westport as the sun was setting recently gave me a special kind of challenge. The batteries of both camera and phone had run out of juice just when the scenery was becoming a glowing, spectacular vision of beauty – but I…
Mary, Mary Had a bit of a Downton day yesterday and grabbed an old pic of the three Crawley sisters from an early series of Downton Abbey. I had in mind that I wanted to create a Fauve style portrait – Lady Mary Crawley looked just the job! I set off with my oil pastel…
Ruth as Steam Witch I received some lovely photos of Ruth, all bewitched for Halloween Steam, at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s seasonal train trips with the message: “She wants to be painted as the witch!” That’s just what I like to see and hear – and I was most happy to oblige. Probably…
Portrait in Progress Today was one of those days when everything less important than painting seemed to take over… I did mean to make my Daily Face a quick sketch, but somehow was lured by the paints. This one’s from a photo of my friend Nem, who lives in Austria, taken the last time she…
Another Amazing Face! I’m giving Grace a little guidance with her art studies at the moment and am so pleased that she agreed to pose for my daily face project. I took the opportunity to make a couple of contrasting portraits. One in colourful acrylic, the other a soft watercolour, inspired by the soft texture…
Daily Faces After a month of sticking to my commitment to post a painting every day for the whole of Advent and creating a collection of paintings of animals and birds that I loved working on, I set myself another task… In lieu of New Year’s Resolutions I decided that I would choose something that…
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…
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