Too much golf, badminton and tennis! I really need to knuckle down and complete this picture soon. Reasonable progress has been made over the weekend. I can’t wait to start on the parrots themselves, but I still have to do a bit on the sides and top and bottom, after finishing the Monstera deliciosa* and touches to […]

A bit more progress on the parrots. After taking a good long look at the picture yesterday evening, I realized that the bottom front parrot was too small in comparison with the two birds behind. So I have made him bigger (blue outline – and the beauty of cover-up oil paint)! The light has faded […]

The last few days have proved positively awful for painting. Several factors come to mind including lack of light, lack of concentration, and the proverbial ‘painters block’. It is most depressing. But after today’s initial bad light and snowfall, the sun came out and I am making slow, but better progress. I really needed to […]

I have been practising golf and tennis the last few days, so not much time for painting. But the sun is shining beautifully today so a bit more progress has been made:    

More progress pics:

Just been adding some background to my Macaws oil painting. Here are three progress pics:    

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE So a new year begins and back to work. I have had many ideas over the festive break and cannot wait to get back to some serious artwork production. I started today a large oil painting entitled ‘Blue and Gold Macaws and Swamp Hibiscus’ (there is also a cheese plant […]

This is the preliminary design sketch and unfinished water colour entitled ‘Nature Garden‘, whose illuminated composition is in the Ottoman Style, which I hope to complete in the next couple of days: