New Painting

Just starting a new picture and I am going to try to remember to post pictures as the painting progresses. This is the drawing,for which I used the grid system to transfer the image from a smaller photo. You can see the remains of the grid after erasing as much as possible, the paint should cover the rest.

Ink pigment on watercolour paper.

Image size 12"x 8"

Framed size 16"x 12"

I found this beautiful old wooden house in the middle of the forest on a birdwatching trip to Poland a few years ago. It seemed abandoned but had a satellite dish, so maybe it was lived in.Would have loved to own it , in such an idyllic spot.

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Another ink pigment

   

Ink pigment on paper. 210x295mm
Framed image 13"x17"
For Sale €195

Reference for this painting was a photo I took a few years ago in Ardmore, Co Waterford of the Protestant Church. It was the light that attracted me and I hope I have achieved this in the picture.                      

Sketch

Acrylic on cartridge paper. Trying to figure out a new painting, think this would have worked better in portrait rather than landscape and probably should have more space something at bottom so that gulls have somewhere to go, like a rock or boat , any opinions?

Roches Point

OIL on CANVAS. 36"X 12" . €350.00


I have been working on this painting on and off for a couple of years, thinking that it was finished on at least two occasions, but then deciding otherwise and reworking it, in the end , completely. I am finally, reasonably happy with it, but not entirely, so I hope somebody buys it quickly so I’m not tempted to take a brush to it again.
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Bank Holiday Weekend

It’s a Bank Holiday Week End here in Ireland and in Ballycotton , every year, they have a fund raiser  for the RNLI, which is very well supported, especially as we have a lifeboat in the village, well in the harbour actually.

If you are anywhere near Ballycotton for the weekend call down, there is loads for the kids to do and adults too.

Another new pic

Acrylic on canvas board 5” x 7”
Another small painting in acrylic. Staying with the theme of ruined cottage and animals, this time a pair of Connemara ponies (I’m sure I will be corrected on that!)
Next weekend is another Bank Holiday and some of my work will be on display on the stand of
“Cork Craft & Design” in “The Big Shed” behind the Grain Store in Ballymaloe, as part of the “Ballymaloe LitFest of food and wine”. Looking at the program this would look to be a fabulous week- end festival with something to interest everybody. For more details check www.litfest.ie

Sins of the past

 

Just found this painting buried in my old studio, it was painted by me 23 years ago,I had only been painting a couple of years. It was hanging in a local pub for years, but when the pub was sold it was gutted and the painting ended up in the skip…obviously it didn’t appeal to either the former or latter owners. A friend saw it and rescued it and returned it to me, it has been buried ever since. It’s a bit smoke damaged and scuffed but I cleaned it and another friend fell in love with it so I gave it to her.

So be warned….your sins will come back to haunt you….lol.

Sketches

“HAPPINESS IS! “
Spent the last two days sketching out a couple of ideas for paintings. I used photos I took of a man in a park in Buenos Aires, don’t know  if he was a dog walker or just a dog lover, but he had about 8 dogs with him!

“PLAY WITH US DADDY”
After spending 2 days sketching them out my wife begged me to leave them as sketches and not put colour in, so I now have to draw them again to paint them!

Work in Progress

Here’s yet another painting I have been fighting with for quite a while, but finally I think it’s going somewhere. I am thinking of putting a large silver birch on the right hand foreground with maybe a Grey Heron sitting underneath.Still got to add a few more reflections and bits and pieces. Have a class this morning and then gonna spend the afternoon trying to finish it. Will post an update in the next couple of days .

The other side

Haven’t got round to posting for the last few days, and haven’t done a whole lot of painting either, time just seems to be slipping away. Will have to get a move on as an exhibition coming up at the end of April.

Thought I’d show a different side to my art today, every now and then I turn away from the representational and just throw paint.I love to see what happens when I just let the paint run and I love using primary colours, the more vivid the better. Never quite sure how to put a title on them though.

Work in progress

Got the yen to try coloured pencils again, so spent a bit of time looking for subject matter, eventually came on some pics I took of the rulers of our household…..our two cats.

This is the one we call Tabby, I know …she’s not a Tabby. Don’t ask!

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Have a long way to go yet, but I think it’s going the right way, she’s looking a bit cross in the painting, so will have to find a way of softening the look. Will post again when a bit further on.