A Work-in-Progress

I've been busy working on a couple of paintings recently, these will be for a friends family who runs a charitable foundation.  Can't say more at the moment as they haven't seen the first completed painting, but suffice to say, I have enjoyed doing these paintings.

On my easel at the moment is this one, the Work-in-Progress

The "Purple" colour is merely Background for the Oil paint, soon to be added.   Then there will be Details to add and then drying time.  This all takes a while to complete from idea to completed painting.  I think most of the work for an oil painting goes on before paint even touches canvas.....

* Choosing a scene to paint

* Choosing a suitably sized canvas (or panel)

* Thumbnail sketches to decide on a pleasing scene

* Sketching the outline onto the canvas

* Deciding on the colours to be used:

~ Warm tones

~ Cool tones

* Mixing said colours on the palette in readiness to paint :

~ this includes the various Tones for each colour

*when all that work is done, 

then comes the fun part,

Adding paint to canvas

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Sheep seem to get everywhere down here in Devon

...including on my easel

Oil on Canvas

8" x 8"

Title:  "Just A Moment"

"'Some" of my favourite paintings from this year

All Oil but varying sizes.

Christmas lunch

As part of volunteering for Arlington Court - National Trust -

they acknowledge all the hard work us volunteers put into helping during the season by

arranging a Christmas lunch. 

Looked forward to, not only for the splendid food, but a chance to catch-up with colleagues.

This being the tail-end of the season for Arlington, heading into Christmas and the Winter break before it all kicks off again in February.

anyway....enough of that....Graham took a photo of me at the table.

No, I'm not surrounded by Swans!!!  (just in case you wondered)

THANKS TO ARLINGTON COURT

FOR ARRANGING THIS EVENT

 ~ IT IS ALWAYS ENJOYED ~

Fame

Fame?!....well, sort of

Our daughter, Lil, appeared in a recent program on Channel 5, all about raising awareness for Donkey's as part of Help the Animals campaign.

here's a screenshot only, but if you look at the bottom (arrowed)

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that's our daughter feeding the donkeys - she also appears further in the program segment, so if you would like to watch this clip from the program then highlight/click the link below.....

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1194068714132188

THEN THE NEXT DAY

One of Lil's photos appeared in Best Magazine 

here's the photo:

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