couple of Nicky to go with Nat

two more pastel portraits this time of my youngest grandson, Nicky - he's 16 months now.  I had a real struggle with these trying to avoid the Hamster-with-full-pouches look in the full face portrait, quite difficult.

A couple of Nat

I got this far with these today after a couple of days struggling with them.  They are two pastel portraits of Nat (my eldest grandson) on Ingres Paper.  Practice pieces really.  The top one is just a bit dreamy but I feel the bollom one has got to be titled - "It's not fair".  May do some more work on these.

Crazy Dog

"Crazy Dog" A pastel portrait of Ducu, one of my stepdaughters dogs - a great character.  This is on blue Ingres paper, roughly 12 in square.   It took just over two hours, not including preliminary preparation work, just the actual painting.

Connections....

Right, first step, I think this is connected to my Facebook page, now I wonder if the Link above is the way to join it to my website......in for a penny in for a pound.... let's try it.....

www.driftwood-studio.net

Onwards and Upwards

Back again after long time, quite a bit of work finished and the new conviction that the blog could be a GOOD THING.  Also will be trying to get it all connected to my website and Facebook page so that everything hangs together.  In other words trying to look like a proper artist with all the modern technology at my fingertips.  (I'm sure none of you will be fooled by this!).

The above paintings are the finished results of the last post showing these paintings as work in progress - the last time I put anything on here 18 months ago now.   I'm showing them because it was "unfinished business" so that's that loose end tied up.

Some progress

These pics are of 5 of the 6 paintings, the last one wouldn't load so ......they are in a very rough state with the basic composition drawn and the background blocked in - now the real work starts.

big jobbies

I'm being quite ambitious with this idea - Falklands Conservation are asking for paintings to celebrate the endemic flower species of the Islands (there are 13 of them) for an exhibition in June. I've got really fascinated by the whole concept, although flower painting has never been my thing. The endemic flowers are small, and I have for a long time been interested in the idea of painting a big picture of a very small thing. So I have picked out 6 species, and the paintings are in two groups of three each of which will be arranged in a metre square - three are in warm colours - the flowers are yellow/gold/orange/touch of red, and the other three are in cool whites/silver greys/grey-green.

These pictures are work in progress:-