My Dog Davidson

Dave is my best of buddies and is with me 24/7. I have painted him in soft pastel for a fun competition on my forum. I was very happy with the outcome of this one as I feel it captures his personality perfect. Thanks Dave for letting me paint you. Love you buddy.

Playing around with oil pastel

This was just trying out oil pastel on colour fix paper to see how it would work.

Lake Eildon Complete

After a lot of work I have finally completed this painting. I was very pleased with this ones outcome.

Soft Past on A2 Colorfast Paper

Final Draft of horse landscape

I made a couple more changes to this one. First I increased the size of the fence to suit the height of the horses better and then I lifted the road a little. I will begin to paint this one soon now.

Forest Pond Complete

This is the final steps for my forest pond

1. Photo shows were I started from




2. Sky
First I mixed up an opaque purple leaving the colours unmixed. Then added it to the top to give the effect of sky. Make sure it is very transparent.




3. Complete Photo
Make up some lights and darks and with a small brush just define the trees some more and add in a figure to make an interest point.




To see the actural tutorial here are the links.

Forest Pond" Stage 1 Fine Art Tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HJZ6f7_Noo

Forest Pond" Stage 2 - Fine Art tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcihovomOL8

"Forest Pond" Stage 3 - Fine Art tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYa8mtW2LBc

"Forest Pond" Stage 4(a) - Fine Art tutorial

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ39QvutiFc&feature=related

"Forest Pond" Stage 4(b final) - Fine Art tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIY8V82PYOM

4. Up close photos








Hope you enjoyed

Up date of horse landscape

I have fixed up the perspective on this one as was all wrong so hopefully this is better now.

Horse Landscape WIP

I have a real love for horses so have started a WIP of this landscape. I am planning to paint this one in soft pastel. It's A3 Colorfast Paper. At this stage I am just play with the sketch until I feel it's right to go.

This is an update of my Forrest Pond painting

So this is where I was at and here we have a very rough image the subject matter is raw which is how it’s meant to be.

So now I am going to define the trees by painting around them. So using transparent and optic colours so can get some life into the painting. Using Indian Yellow I have made up a very week glaze and where I added in the white scumbles last time in the centre I am going to glaze over them to give them a gold tinge. You need to be sure it is not running. You do the same with the reflections and then just add little bits here and there over the painting to give it a touch of the gold look.

You now need to mix up a bright green using Bright Yellow and Cerulean blue. These are very optic colours. Then using circular motions applying it to the trees as we did from the very start.

Now we need some depth now which is done by adding in some darks. So I mixed up Phthalo Blue and Alizarin Crimson then added it in at the bottom of the trees and a little just where it looked like it needed it. And of cause I did the same to the reflection. Again it’s important not to let it run.

For this next step I mixed up a muddy colour just using what was already on the pallet. Then I added in a light glaze just under the water edge.

Using a dark mix I then redefined my trees edge by just holding the brush side on and in one stroke running up the edge and then the same in the reflections.

I had to add in a foundation for the next step so I used a scumble mix of white and bright yellow using the knife at the bottom of the canvas. Then the same thing with a blue green and then again using straight white.


Now I need to let this dry once more.

Eildon Updated

This is a piece I have been working on for some time now. It's from a photo I took quiet a few years back when I had taken my kids camping. I've finally finished working on the houseboat although I might have to do a few touch ups later one. I have also blocked in the background colours and are now slowly adding in the detail. Still much work to be done.

Bronco

This is just a quick fun sketch I did as a muck around challenge with Graham again. I'm thinking I might add a background to it at a later date but not to sure yet.