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Into the blue. A landscape.
'Into the blue' - acrylic on canvas 5x5 inchWell, we had a fabulous weekend in London despite getting off to a bad start with a 4 hour delay caused by thick fog at Inverness airport and compounded by a...
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Sure as Sunrise. A seascape.
'Sure as sunrise' - impasto acrylic on box canvas 5x5 inchesSo this week, it's been all about the bright, bout the bright, no drizzle (can't get that song out of my head!). I'd mentioned that I was...
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Time between the tides. An Orkney Island seascape
So in my last post, I mentioned that I had given two of my mini landscapes a rainbow coloured do over. This is the second one:'Time between the tides' - acrylic on box canvas 5x5 inchThis is how it...
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Still rock and roll. Duncansby Stacks, the Northern Lights & Shop Scotland.
'Still rock and roll' - acrylic on box canvas 5x5Available to purchase from Caithness HorizonsThis is the landscape I put into the Caithness Horizons Christmas Exhibition in place of the one that sold...
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Emma. A pet portrait.
It's been a while since I posted any pet portraits. This is one I was commissioned to do in October for a birthday present in November so, as it's been received I think it's now okay to blog about it....
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(It may be raining but) There's a rainbow above you. A Seascape.
'There's a rainbow above you' - acrylic on canvas 30cm x 40cmThis is a painting I started quite a few weeks ago. It was one of those ones where I took two brush strokes forward and four back. I'd get...
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Where it all began. A Cornish Landscape.
I can’t believe we’re at the end of 2014 already. This seems like the quickest year on record but what a year it’s been.'Where it all began' - impasto acrylic on canvas 30cm x 20cmIn January I did my...
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Be bold, be brave, be daring...
First things, first. Happy New Year to everyone - I wish you a year of colour and light. 'With a million stars all around' - impasto acrylic on canvas 132cm x 45.5cmThis is a painting I've been...
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Lexie. A pet portrait in gouache.
'Lexie' - Gouache on A3 (29.7 x 42 cm) watercolour paper.It seems like a really long time since I painted anything in gouache. In fact, before being commissioned to paint Lexie, the last time I used...
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Life imitating art & the week that was Scotstorm.
'Dance along the light of day' - acrylic on 7.5cm x 7.5cm canvasYesterday, I wondered if I had some secret superpower – the ability to conjure something up simply by painting a picture of it. I was...
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Boris, a pet portrait, snow and other stuff...
'Boris' - acrylic on box canvas 5 x 5 inchesThis gorgeously serious looking chap is another of the pet portraits I was commissioned to do as a surprise Christmas present. The feedback I got was that...
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Vanishing...
'Vanishing' - impasto acrylic on box canvas 70cm x 50cmThis is my submission for this year's David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year competition. Last year I had not long discovered the joys of...
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Ming. A pet portrait.
Ming - in acrylic on canvas 5x5 inchesMing is a beautiful black cat who owns my friend, Marji. When I painted Tulli back in November, Marji kindly commissioned me to paint Ming as well and she was very...
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Island Life. A Scottish scene that used to be in Cornwall
'Island Life' - impasto acrylic on canvas 20cm x 30cmWhen I was at the art workshop in Cornwall last September, I painted two pictures in a looser style more along the lines of abstract realism than...
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Confessions of a nature-loving artist...
'Wild Mountain Time' - impasto acrylic 70cm x 50cmI have a confession to make. Even though I love nature and am in my element living where I do with wild and rugged beauty all around me, gorgeous...
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How now, Highland Cow...
'Cora' - impasto acrylic 50cm x 40cm box canvasSo, because I had a limited amount of time to produce 5+ paintings for the Committed to Art Exhibition I decided to give some older paintings a do-over...
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At the foot of the mountain...Abstract realism
'At the foot of the mountain' - impasto acrylic on canvas 5x5 inchA couple of weeks ago, I showed a 'sneaky peek' of my large landscape painting 'Wild Mountain Time' on my Facebook page. Someone asked...
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A little more than green. (A mini Scottish Landscape)
'A little more than green' - mini landscape (7.5x7.5cm) impasto acrylic on canvasA few weeks ago, I was driving into town one morning and there was the most glorious sunrise coming up behind the wind...
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Scottish Moonshine - a time lapse painting
'Scottish Moonshine' - the tiniest impasto landscape (5x5cm)So, I had invited you to pop back to see if I'd finished the large version of the wind farm sunrise painting. Well, it's still a work in...
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(Still) Not fair game. (An impasto pheasant)
So, I have finally finished the large version of the wind farm sunrise painting but this little guy has been waiting in the wings (no pun intended) for a couple of weeks now so I thought I'd give him...
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