Illustration Friday 'Racing'

Acrylic painting with beads and thread. I had a lot of fun with this one!

Is it finished yet?

Here it is, the painting that I just couldn't finish, the one I kept returning to and tweaking. I  finally figured it out a couple of days ago. The problem was that the horses mane was far to tidy looking (I realised after painting the piece in the previous post that I like my horses to have a scruffy appearance)! So I changed his mane, that was much better, but still one more thing needed changing...The colour, he just wasn't RED enough. So now I have a very red horse with a scruffy mane and I'm a happy painter. I hope you like this one. :-)

Painting

Hey all! I hope you are well, it's flipping freezing here at the moment, actually it's colder inside my flat than outside as its a sunny day outside, but still, right now I feel cold..I'm clutching mammoth sized cups of tea for warmth and the steam from my cooked breakfast this morning almost made it impossible to see what I was eating..Haha! Still I am a few months away from putting drinks in thermal mugs, wearing a sleeping bag over my clothes whilst doing art, wearing thermal base layers and having frozen water pipes...So I shouldn't grumble really!

Okay so I finished another painting yesterday, there was no plan to this I just started a painting and this is what happened. I quite like it although it doesn't really look like something I'd create. It almost looks too cute, however I do really like the texture and colours in it, it has a nice optimistic feeling to it that I'm really enjoying.

Illustration Friday 'spooky'

Go me! At last an entry in on time! :-) So for this weeks word I got thinking about foxes and the noises that they make. You know the scary screaming noise the females make and the other noises that the cubs make when they begin howling. I've heard these sounds many times living in the countryside in Devon and they always gave me the creeps!
So I began researching foxes online and I came across this article about a sighting of a black fox in the UK, the article is from the Telegraph newspaper and is about a sighting of a black fox in a grave yard in Lancashire. The article goes on to explain how black foxes are very rare in the UK....

David Dunlop, Lancashire Wildlife Trust conservation officer, said: "Only one black fox has been seen and, as far as I know, it's the only one to be seen in this country before," he said "In North America, I think it's about one in five red foxes are black but that's because they were introduced from Europe."

 

Image from here

So I thought why not draw a black fox, a bit 'spookier' than a red fox image right? So I sat down to do a painting. Here it is...

I've got to say that I love this little painting! I'm so happy with it, it's great to make something that you love isn't it?! I'm still working on some other paintings, one in particular I keep restarting with...I'll get there soon though!

An explanation

Hey all!  Right, I feel I  owe you all an explanation as to where my daily drawings have gone, the thing is that the past few weeks life has been hectic (and it looks to carry on this way), and try as I might I just can't keep up the daily drawings, at least not  at a standard that I feel happy with. I've posted a few daily drawings that I felt unhappy with and well I just don't want do that. So for the time being I won't be posting the daily drawings, I shall return to just posting art work as and when.. I feel better now for explaining myself to you all!

Something I have been doing recently is painting, I have started my first painting in a few years and am really enjoying the process of working with paint on canvas. I'm also enjoying being able to work on it each day, building the image up slowly. It's so much fun!
For now here's a snippet from my art space, I will be posting images of new work soon. I hope you are all well out there, have a good week :-)