The “warrior girl” commission that I am working on at the moment is complicated. I knew it would be. Because its not just copying one photo, which is easy, very easy for me to do. It’s not even copying part of one photo and putting the photo of another background to it, which is easy […]
Moving house has kept me incredibly busy, packing up my house in Leicestershire, and unpacking again in Kent as well as all the odd jobs and maintenance work that that entails, plus September is such a good month to get work done in the garden before the frosts and cold weather kicks in. Going on […]
I loved doing the pen and ink drawing of St Saviours Foremark, Interior, and delivering it to the client last Friday. I loved it when she rang me on Sunday night asking me to do a copy of the pen and ink drawing just for her, the same size (11 x 8 inches) but inframed […]
When I finished the drawing of St Saviours church interior and delivered it to the client who had commissioned it on Friday last week, she was delighted for it, and said the person who it was for would love it.. and then after a bit of conversation about it, she said wistfully that she would […]
When I was asked on Monday to do the pen and ink drawing of the interior of the church of St Saviours in Foremark near Repton in Derbyshire I knew I wanted to get it done as quickly as I could for the client. Although there was a deadline for the day the picture was […]
I was asked a few weeks ago to do a painting as a gift for a woman I know, who was having a big birthday coming up. She had no idea that the painting was being done for her. I was asked to paint her as “Mother Nature” but a sexy and elegant version with […]
I’m getting on nicely with the commission I am doing for Stuart Haywood, for what he refers to as his “snuff it” painting… He’s both joking and serious about the reason for the painting he wants me to do. He’s very aware of his own mortality now he is in his 80’s and wants this […]
I was able to meet up with the couple who commissioned the “Angel with red hair and pagan symbols” painting at the weekend. I’ve not seen them for about three years we decided as we happily chatted over a cup of tea and caught up with each others news. Firstly being of course the painting that […]
I did a bit of framing a couple of weeks ago for the pupil who comes to me most weeks for private painting classes. The watercolour that she was coming to collect was a gift for a family member and she has put many hours of hard work into that painting over the three months or […]
The black and white and red acrylic painting that I finished last week has dried nicely over the weekend so I could screw the hanging fixings on the back today. As I tied the hanging cord on the back and sealed it off I turned the painting over and felt the texture within the paint and […]
Since the client has decided to let me be the judge of when this painting is finished, without seeing the finished painting in its entirety, and since I am fully aware of what their wishes are, I knew yesterday that I had virtually finished it other than adding textures in the poignant parts of the acrylic […]
I’ve got on well with the painting I’m currently working on for the client commission for Christmas… I’ve got to the fun part of hiding the images within the painting and am now working on the predominately white part, and as any artist knows white is never boring… it has so many fine details and […]
I know I’ve talked a little about the painting I’m working on at the moment. It’s a painting that is a surprise Christmas present for some one, but its been ordered and discussed and planned and paid for by someone else. Nothing unusual in that, of course, and a wonderful gift I think from the person […]
The fabulous painting I am currently working on for a client has many aspects of it, that we have discussed and planned between us. I love the fact that there are lots of hidden parts to this painting, and am delighted that the client, after seeing the working painting has left me to get on […]
After ordering the canvas for the new painting commission on Monday, along with some acrylic paints that I’ll need to do the painting, all I could do was sit back and wait for the art materials order to arrive… at some point within the next few days. But that was fine as I’ve had various other things […]
