It’s Saturday/Caturday once again and here’s one from 10 years ago, with Little Ming dozing in front, Sparta Puss snoozing behind. Little Ming is no longer with us, she was a delightful cat that Husb and I rescued from neglect. She was very ill and not expected to survive but pulled through and lived with usContinue reading “#Caturday Archives #8”
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Speedy “Picasso” and Cat (Video)
Here’s a one-minute time lapse video of the recent painting I did with Ed Sumner’s “Cheese and Wine Painting Club”, a portrait of a woman by Pablo Picasso. It features my cat Sparta Puss, who likes to watch while I work. And give a few death stares to camera!
The Beginning
I’m thinking of painting another portrait of my young niece, she’s full of attitude, in a good way, and I love sketching her. Here’s the first of the preliminary sketches from a photo of her, with graphite block onto a heavy Khadi paper. It’s the very beginning of the process. More sketches are needed beforeContinue reading “The Beginning”
Finished!!!!
Finally finished faffing about with my little portrait of my young niece. It’s taken me ages because I just couldn’t decide when it was finished and I kept faffing with it. I started with some preliminary sketches then built up the painting in layers, using Liquitex acrylics onto stretched canvas. I worked from photos andContinue reading “Finished!!!!”
Recycle and Reuse.
I started painting during the early days of the pandemic lockdown after a break of decades (I’m a printmaker and scribbler). I joined the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and painted along with artist Ed Sumner weekly for about 18 months. I was pleased with most of the work I did but thereContinue reading “Recycle and Reuse.”
#StandingStoneSunday 7
It’s #Standingstonesunday again and I’ve been looking through the painting / drawings I did of some of the ancient stone monuments of South Wales a while back. I was travelling around hunting the wild megaliths with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and pre-historian Dewi Bowen. We trekked up the mountain near Trecastle to visit the Nant Tarw stone circles and cairn. The BronzeContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 7”
Faking Friday …. Again
Ed Sumner’s “Cheese and Wine Painting Club” is back on Facebook! Brilliant. Ed started it during lockdown and ran it every Friday for about 18 months. Since lockdown ended and we’ve all been getting back to what we were doing before, Ed has only done an occasional one, and today was one of those days!Continue reading “Faking Friday …. Again”
#StandingStoneSunday 6
It’s #Standingstonesunday again and I’ve been looking through the painting / drawings I did of some of the ancient stone monuments of South Wales a while back. This one is a few miles up the valley from Tafarn Y Garreg, where I scrambled across a stream strewn with slippery, slime-covered rocks and up a steep slopeContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 6”
#Caturday Archives 7
It’s Saturday/Caturday once again and here’s my earliest drawing of Sparta Puss, when she was a little kitten (she’s 13 now). A friend noticed the sinister arrangement of fur on her forehead, it looks a bit like a skull head. She nicknamed her “The Third Kitten of the Apocalypse”. Luckily the strange markings changed asContinue reading “#Caturday Archives 7”
#Caturday Archives 6
It’s Saturday / Caturday again and here’s an archive kitty drawing. This naughty cat is a very young Sparta Puss and Husb caught her expression perfectly. He used a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with a free drawing app called “Markers”.
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