Peonies II

Peonies II 8″x8″ oil on board

Couldn’t resist another painting today of these gorgeous peonies.

Peonies

Peonies 8″x10″ oil on board

I love getting the paint on thick and quick. I’ll need to find some way to transfer this to portraits and landscapes. The peonies in the garden are not quite out yet but these beauties were spotted in the supermarket today.

Sillars Meadow, Irvine

Part of a series of paintings I am starting, showing familiar/not so familiar landscapes in Irvine.

It’s related to lockdown in as far as my daily walks have increased during it. The dogs pads are paying the price, though, of that extra mile or so that we are not used to for the past ten weeks. I now have to seek out more grassy paths and avoid the tarmac as much as I can!

I am painting in acrylic and sticking to a 10″x10″ square format.

The final piece will be seen as a collection I hope. We’ll see how it goes.

Digital drawing #11

Another study on the screen for further development in acrylic. The series of paintings I have started is based on walks around the town. The paintings are messier than the digital counterparts. I have yet to find a way through the clean marks the digital brush makes. Nevertheless, I like the small dots and scribbles.

Henry – Digital Doodle #10

I am still on the tablet. Sounds like a developing addiction.

This is Henry the whippet. These digitals are serving a purpose of passing the hours during lockdown, while also letting me see how these ideas work as possible paintings. Some, like this one, has the look of something that would survive the crossover into canvas; others are still almost cartoony and need more development or even stopped in their tracks and put to one side as digitals alone.

Digital Doodle #8

This is not so much a doodle as it took me three days to paint!

It is amazing how like real paint can be achieved now with a screen. I was able to forget almost that this was digital. I layered , I pushed and pulled, I scratched in, much in the same way. I feel ready now to go back to the oily stuff. My experiments have done what was needed to do to pass the days of the last few weeks in lockdown.

Digital Doodle #7

I have never seen so much blossom on the trees as we have this year. Four weeks without rain must be the reason.

This is Irvine’s Tuileries, The Grand Old Dame, Kerr Drive. drawn on Surface tablet and Sketchbook app