I’m delighted to say that this painting has gone to a good home today. It doesn’t matter how many paintings I have sold over the years I still get the same thrill that someone will actually give me money for something I have painted.
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For a long time now I have been looking for a way to produce original paintings at an affordable price, especially with the tourist season coming up. I think that possibly there is a glut of prints out there at the moment as everyone seems to be discounting them.
This is my effort at affordable original art, these are NOT prints, they are hand painted acrylics, image size 8”x6”, signed , framed and ready to hang, all for €45.00.
Acrylic on mountboard. 10”x8”
I painted this for a local fund raising committee in Ballycotton who are trying hard to raise funds to bring back home a very famous Ballycotton Lifeboat, “The Mary Stanford”, which sadly, is badly in need of repairs and a good home. There is a fund raiser in the Garryvoe Hotel on Sunday night so if you are in the area please call in.
I took the reference photo for this painting in Kenmare during the October bank holiday weekend. I was taken by the moderness, is that a word?, of the guy texting and the frontage of the old pub. The plan , if it works, is to have the sides of the painting misty and showing the past, but I am not sure yet how I am going to do it.
This has been sitting around the studio for a long time now, and was getting knocked around and marked by other paintings, so I bit the bullet and put it on the easel on Saturday and it’s nearly done, maybe an hour or so more to do.
This is the previous post of this painting.
Coloured pencil on cartridge paper.
This dragonfly was thought not to exist in Ireland until quite recently but due to birdwatchers taking more interest in other flying creatures has proved to be reasonably common.
The hardest part of this painting was trying to decide how to tackle the wings, think I made a reasonable effort.
I have been rearranging my incredibly untidy studio, and came up with an obvious idea (well it was Orla, my mate, the ceramicist next door, actually, I’m just claiming the credit.So we hung paintings on the outside , so obvious huh? That way people can view the paintings without facing the ogre inside…grrrrr.
Just finished this today, I think. Not sure about the top right hand quarter, but not sure what else to do about it, would be interested in opinions. Have changed it a bit from the wonderful photo by Andrew Foley which is posted below, but I think I have kept the overall impression.
