I was delighted to have a message over the weekend from the woman who was given the painting I did of ‘Wooster’ a few weeks ago by the client of mine who had commissioned it as a gift for her, but hadn’t told her he was doing it until he gave her the finished painting. […]
The commission I was asked to do a few weeks ago was of two female French Bulldogs and fortunately I was given a great photo to work from which I’ll show here so you can see what I was working to create. The painting was to be in acrylics on board so the first thing […]
The client who commissioned me to paint the picture of ‘Wooster’ came to see it in real life yesterday. He had viewed it online but hadn’t had the chance to see it in real life until yesterday, and loves it as much as I did painting it for him. He said that a photograph of […]
I was asked a few weeks ago to do a painting of a dog for a client. He sent me various photos of the dog and we discussed the best one for me to do the painting from, and finalised it down to two, the photo of the dog sitting down but change the setting […]
Other than buying diamonds for Goddesses I’m also in the process of learning Photoshop in my spare time. An easy occupation you would think, and yet the more I do the more I see there is to learn. I’ve always been interested in photography but only as an aide to producing a painting. I’ll see […]
Well, as expected, I sold no paintings at the exhibition at the weekend. And don’t think I’m being depressingly negative, and I’m certainly not defeatist, and never a pessimist….. You see, the majority of the paintings sold were at the lower end of the market, price wise, since it was a “village hall” exhibition. And […]
Sometimes the world doesn’t take you to where you’re expecting to go. I went to an art workshop today, to a place I know very well, along with people I know very well. And I expected the day to go the way it normally does. The world has a pattern I am familiar with, and […]
I’ve been working on the pen and ink Christmas card design of the three kings this week, and fighting the urge to incorporate a naked woman among them, as per the suggestion I’ve had from a couple of irreverent and naughty friends!! Not that there’s a deadline on it until the end of September, but […]
They’ve gone. And to a very good home, where they certainly belong. But I still had a slightly sad moment when the dog pictures were collected this week. Only a bit sad though, not a gut-wrenching depression over it, you understand! I always get slightly emotionally attached to my artwork, even when I’m only creating […]
Whereas an exhibition is my “best guess” at what I think someone, somewhere might like and might want to buy, I much prefer commissions where someone TELLS me what they want and how they want it, the medium, the size, the subject matter, the composition, the colours, the style, and I ask enough questions that […]
Well as far as the exhibition went I could say that it wasn’t much of a success, in that I didn’t sell a painting and overall the whole exhibition didn’t sell alot. But the lack of sales was perhaps to be expected because people are tightening their belts due to the cost of everything going […]
I’ve been working on my latest dog portrait commission this week and am slightly annoyed that I’ve had to re-start the painting again as the original paper I started with buckled when I was less than a third of the way through the painting. If I’d carried on it might have got worse, it may […]
Almost finished my Christmas commissions – just one last one to do (unless someone rings me two days before Christmas with a request for a piece of artwork – and that wouldn’t be the first time!). I’m pleased with my little pencil drawing of this female lakeland terrier and really enjoyed doing it (don’t worry, […]
Last week when I did my talk for the WI, I wasn’t sure of their reaction. I knew they knew I was an erotic artist before I went, and probably expected me to be a brazen hussy of some description (it goes with the territory!). But I went, and I talked to them for an […]
I know who I am. I know what I do. I’ve been building up my career as an erotic artist – sorry, I’ll re-write that ……. as…………………………….. “An Erotic Artist”!!! That’s what I do. Everyone I meet at the moment is in no allusion whatsoever that that is what I do. I tell all I […]
