My bird paintings are flying out the house lately with a few commissions for birds! It started with this primrose vase and a barn owl. Another customer requested a hummingbird on a bowl Then my most quirky custom order so far has to be for tealight holders with chorister ducks! They loved them, as did …
Had a lovely trip to Dartmoor yesterday, so thought I’d share a few photos. I was there to deliver more of my moorland themed glass paintings to Widecombe in the Moor National Trust gallery. They have a great selection of local crafts, this photo shows just a small area.
I recently had a lovely holiday in Jersey and one of the highlights was Durrell wildlife park. The funniest thing to watch was a giant tortoise working out how to escape. He managed it too by getting on his side & propelling himself through! We also spent quite a long time watching the apes have …
I have pots with remnants of glass paint too solid for normal painting. Finally today I got round to using them and had fun scraping out the paint and putting it on plastic packaging to create some recycled art. It’s turning out like an abstract coral reef and with the dried blobs of paint has …
I’ve a few new paintings since my last post and keep meaning to take work in progress photos. This week I finally remembered to do it for some wildlife glass painting! Here’s a jug with one elephant and a faint outline of a baby elephant and now two! This is the first stage of a …
I was pleasantly surprised by the animals I discovered for the letter Q art challenge. Aside from Quail I’d not heard of the others and will hopefully remember them as useful scrabble words! There are the cute Quokka, one of the smallest Wallaby species in the world and found in Australia. They are a bit …
Thought many of my readers will be interested in this, so reblogging. Happy bird watching!
I’m a bit behind this week having had visitors and a tummy bug! However I did manage to paint this red lemur for my challenge, in my usual style painted with glass paint on acetate and placed over an acrylic painting on canvas. For letter L businesses I discovered there is a lemur conservation foundation: ‘DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND …
The choice was between a kiwi, kangaroo, koala and kudu. Koala won the day, as they are of course incredibly cute animals! This time I painted the background using acrylics on 270gsm brown paper, rather than painting white paper a dark colour. I think it works quite well and I’ve painted more leaves on the acetate …
My letter J art challenge results ended up having a cat theme, as mentioned in my earlier post. Of course the big cat is a Jaguar. It most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is usually larger and of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger. The …
