An old watercolour

This is a watercolour I did of a local farm in my early days. The owner of the farm asked a number of times to buy it. I finally gave in just before christmas so it has now gone to a new home.

Latest work

 These are my two latest pictures. The horse is on Ingress paper and is 7" x 10" and is a mix of pastel pencils and soft pastels.

The Snow Leopard is on Mi-Teintes paper and is 7" x 5" pastel pencils have been used for the Leopard and a soft pastel has been used to block in the background. This is a paper you either love or hate and I am closer to hating it than loving it. I will try to find something to use it up on and not buy any more. Because I am not happy with the look of this one it is doubtful it will go up for sale.

What I use

Just incase anybody`s interested I thought I would pos the type of pastels I use. I have Ashby soft pastels, Derwent pastel pencils, Faber Castell Pitt pastel pencils and Conte Crayons (a very hard pastel). I buy most of my supplies from the SAA. For landscapes I use mainly the Ashby with the pastel pencils for detail, for portraits I use mainly the pastel pencils with the soft pastles for the background if needed. The Conte Crayons I use for sketching and when I need a sharp line over the other pastels.

Facebook !!!

With a view to getting more portrait work I made a facebook page but it will not let me put my web address up. It will let me put the address for this blog so if you have come from my facebook page click the link on here to get to my web page.

A return to art

I have not done any art for a few months due to other commitments but have finally found some time to do some. The piece I am working on at the moment is a Snow Leopard and I have four reference photos of landscapes ready. So I am going to be starting the new year covered in pastel dust and hope to stay that way all year. I plan to start pushing the portrait work and see if I can get enough commissions to keep me going.