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Happy Christmas wishes

Happy Christmas wishes

Well after the hectic rush of photographing, drawing, and finishing last week’s commission, its gone off today to its recipient at one end of the country to be wrapped up ready to be delivered for Christmas at a different location. I’m not showing it here in this post since the person it is for hasn’t seen or received it yet but I will show it to you in a later post. Probably with the photo I worked from so you can see how taking out various items within the photo has helped so much in enhancing the artwork and focus and artistic licence.  

After spending the weekend  happily enjoying good times with excellent friends and a large amount of alcAmboise cafe night -liquify1ohol I am virtually ready for Christmas.

So I wanted to take this opportunity to say Happy Christmas to all my friends and I wish every happiness for you with your loved ones over the festive period.  Like a lot of people I always find this time of year bitter sweet since we all remember loved ones who aren’t with us, and happy times when they were. But they are with us in spirit, and in the happy laughter over meal tables, in the familiar fond memories of a certain recipe or family tradition that is passed down through the generations. And in a love or hate of sprouts I believe!

Have a good one!

 

I've been an artist all of my life, and my paintings now hang on walls in Europe, USA and Canada. I'm working on getting them on the other continents! My wide range of artwork has been exhibited nearer to home in the East Midlands, with the Guild of Erotic Artists at Beaumont Hall Studios in Hertfordshire, and at "Erotica", Olympia, London. I have also been featured alongside my work in the Guild of Erotic Artists book (volume 2). I love to create dramatic interest in my pictures, whether it’s to paint an unusual landscape, or just to utilise dramatic lighting in my figure drawings or strong colour in my animal portraits. Delighting in the spontaneous tendencies of watercolour adds an interesting and distinctive look to my paintings, some of which are purposefully ambiguous, enabling the viewer to use their own interpretation of my artwork. I also love to hide images, and humour within my paintings, whether it’s a secret message, or an erotic couple hidden within a landscape, or even an erotic landscape where the couple are camouflaged as the features of the land itself. I am equally happy painting in oils, acrylics or watercolours and love to draw with pencil or ink. I have also developed the very effective method of drawing using white pencil on black card which creates dramatic pictures by just picking out where the light catches the body and leaving the rest of the image to the imagination, in darkness. I can also utilise many different styles, whether it is realistic, abstract, surrealistic, erotic, fantasy or camouflage art where something is hidden within the painting. I'm just passionate about my art, whatever I paint! But, it doesn't matter how many landscapes or pet portraits I paint, its always the erotic stuff that people are interested in! I started blogging to share some of the strange conversations I have with the people I meet. But its evolved into far more than that now.

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