Modigliani's Moggy

Modigliani's Moggy : This is a copy of a Modigliani's painting of a wedding to which I have added their cat.  He must have forgotten to paint it in.
This and another 10 other of my framed paintings will be part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester in England  UK  off the paved High Street …find it if you can…..clue Opposite Monsoon…….As this is in a currant exhibition availability will not be till 6th November 2016

Morning Glory

Morning Glory : This and another 10 other of my framed paintings will be part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester in England UK off the paved High Street ...find it if you can.....clue opposite Monsoon....This is the sun rising over the horizon in the field beyond the couple sitting on the gate and enjoying the view...
As this is in an currant exhibition availability will not be till 6th November 2016

Midnight Fishing

Midnight Fishing: Not spending an evening looking at the TV…but getting out there …..and getting into some fishing…mind if the weather turns and it starts to rain and the snow is lashing down …an evening in sounds pretty good…but for the moment he's sticking with the fishing ….
 This is one of my paintings that is part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester off the paved High Street …find it if you can…..clue : A tiny entrance opposite Monsoon….excellent coffee shops near by…why not get a coffee to go…and visit our art show…look and slurp…slurp and look….than buy!

East Harbour

East Harbour : One of a pair …this is one of those paintings that you glimpse from a train or a car…you make a quick sketch of it to remind you…then find the sketch maybe years later…and have no idea where it is or when you did it….ho hum it looked good enough to make a painting and off you go….
 This is one of my paintings that is part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester off the paved High Street …find it if you can…..clue : A tiny entrance opposite Monsoon….

Morning Glory

Morning Glory : This and another 10 other of my paintings will be part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester off the paved High Street …find it if you can…..clue opposite Monsoon….This is the sun rising over the horizon in the field beyond the couple sitting on the gate and enjoying the view…

River Flowers

River Flowers : This and another 10 other of my paintings will be part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester off the paved High Street …find it if you can…..clue opposite Monsoon
This is a scene from The New Forest…a sudden glimpse of a forest stream and a flash of Summer flowers….loverly.

Autumn Meeting

Autumn Meeting : This and another 10 other of my paintings will be part of Hampshire Artists Co-Operative's new show at the well hidden Oxmarket gallery in Chichester …find it if you can…..
Autumn a wonderful time for a walk in the woods the colours are just amazing…one of my favourite seasons.

Autumn Hill

Autumn Hill : The leaves are getting more 'gingery' now ...this is a tree on a little hill ( -ock? ) just before entering the woods...the sun hit it as we came up to it...everything became very bright with the dark woods behind made a memorable image. But now to try and get that image on to canvas….

Great Tit

Tweet of the Day: Great tit : Often see these little wonders hanging from our feeders enjoying our "fast food".... We have a nest box by our kitchen window and in all the years we have had it hanging there only once has it been used….and that was by great tits.....they were very nervous of us as we looked at each other throughout the kitchen window..as soon as the babies fledged..they all left...at avery high speed.

Early Autumn

Early Autumn : Down on the lake today and more signs of the leaves changing colour and with the sun on them they positively glowed…like a church window...very difficult to get that feeling in a painting...but you've go to try...haven't you?

Jug

Jug: This is a painting from my student class...we all painted this jug for the first hour...before going on to their personal project...a good exercise to get them painting from life ...it's not easy though...a lot of resistance but necessary if you want to make progress...after telling my class to plan your painting with a rough first and where you are going to place it on the page...my sample shows no handle…I had placed it to much in the middle and couldn't get it in...ho hum a teachers life is not always a happy one.......

Autumn River

Autumn River: The leafs on our trees are really starting to change from that awful acidly green of Summer to a nice redder green of Autumn and getting there gradually … excellent to see everyday getting a little more redder...down by the river today the greens are changing to a beautiful yellow with a few touches of orange...what bodes for tomorrow?

Early Breakfast

Early Breakfast? : Owl meets mouse on a tree branch....what will happen next?

Cuckoo

Tweet of the Day : The Cuckoo :The cuckoo is a dove-sized bird with blue grey upper parts, head and chest with dark barred white under parts. They are summer visitors and well-known brood parasites, the females laying their eggs in the nests of other birds, especially meadow pipits, dunnocks and reed warblers.

Another Little Owl

Tweet of the Day: Another Little Owl....and why not....they are adorable .....I was trying to get a better colour combination...although I think the white backgrounds work well ..it's good to experiment.

Am setting up two exhibitions at the moment so am putting up old work till ready…

The Last Supper?

Meal of the Day : The Last Supper? : This little cardinal is feeding from a garden bird table enjoying the seeds….but will it be her last supper?....look carefully can you see something that might stop her enjoying her meal........?

Walking with Fred

Wave of the Day : Walking with Fred : The best time when you are near a beach is the evening with the long shadows and the sun sinking in the sea ( It does doesn't it? ) there is a theory that there is a green light appears just as the sun sinks beyond the horizon ....we spent a lot of time trying to photograph this...but this painting is of a really great sky...very like a favourite painter of both my son and I…Fred Cuming...we always think of him when we see a sky like this one....cheers Fred and thanks for all the paintings.

Gull Island

Wave of the Day : Gull Island : This little island is situated at the mouth of Trebarwith Strand in Cornwall England...where we have just been on holiday...as you can see very windy with plenty of spray...quite hard for the surfers to get beyond the braking waves ...Gull Island always looked good whatever the weather... majestically standing off shore...

Sun Flower

Sunflower : Now the holidays are over, it is back to work and back to my pupils..first painting of the winter season…still life of a sunflower...and not a real one!..a supermarket purchase..do something simple to begin with and then get down to some real painting later...unfortunately not everyone was feeling the same and we has a few tantrums and the throwing of paint and the tearing of paper was heard...ho hum...artist bloc was rampant ...

Clouds and the Sea

Clouds and the Sea : Another holiday painting...the waves today were very impressive and the surfers made the most of it.The wind was very gusty and as well as the beauty of the crashing waves the was the extra pleasure of seeing the wind take off the tops of the waves as they started to fall and added to that, as if that wasn't enough, were the clouds seeming to be copying the waves...just a wonderful sight...I found myself just looking and enjoying the experience so much …I forgot I was out there to paint this......difficult

Sailing

Sailing : Although the sun was shining and the wind was blowing we thought sailing might be a good idea...it was the day I found out I'm not a good sailor...or my stomach isn't...I love sailing but my stomach does not...and today I should have stayed on the rocks and painted the sea...

Flower Field

Flower Field : Painted in the New Forest last Summer is now part of The Alton Art Society exhibition at the Assembly Rooms on Alton for the next two weeks 10am - 4pm Hope you can get along and see it…good show.

Surprise

Meow of the Day: Surprise : Met this one in a passage way ...we were not sure who had the right of way....me or her? she was surprised as was I …but somehow her look of surprise changed to that look animals give you when confronted. like very young children look at adults...staring with no expression .......scary

Scotty

Bark of the Day : Scotty : Dogs are really difficult to paint....I tried to paint this one from 'real life'
instead of using a photograph…big mistake ...if I am painting a cat..you can rely on them not moving much, particularly after a meal...when cats like to take a nap...where as dogs just want to go for another walk ....so this painting is painted from the memory of the dog that was sat in front of me some minutes ago........ho hum.....

Wood Walk

Walk of the Day: Wood Walk : Another walk we do with the dogs through the woods…the leaves on the trees are getting redder and it is getting colder..the colours are wonderful...can't wait to get back to the studio and get painting...

Dog Walk

Walkies of the Day : Dog Walk : Out again into the forest with our dog…very cold this morning..dogs love it ...not so much us...we'll all feel better for it after the walk when we can sit down with a large cup of coffee...and the dog asleep in his bed...noticed the change in the seasons this morning....

Grumpy

Moo of the Day : Grumpy : Although I have been going on about how most cows give you an expressionless stare across a hedge ...here is one that looks decidedly grumpy ..whats going on with her? go out the wrong side of the hay this morning I wouldn't wonder…

Proper Cow

Moo of the Day : Proper Cow : Thought I'd just try to paint a proper cow…as I always seem to painting the same cow type with long faces...it was a lot of fun to see the differences but I see that the stare is still the same.... scary...

Chapeaux

Moo of the Day : Chapeaux : More of my cows with a hat on plus flowers and a bell...I don't know how I arrived at this image with it's long face not like a real cow....I must try

painting a real one one day..but I like the long look of this one…helps express that long expressionless face they have when they are trying to our stare you over a field hedge...