Appearing on the Fine Art Trade Guild homepage!

I was excited to see one of my paintings on the homepage of the Fine Art Trade Guild website this week. It was advertising the Association of Animal Artists (AAA) Annual Exhibition which is currently on at Samlesbury Hall in Preston.

I have three paintings in the exhibition and I'm looking forward to visiting for the day this Sunday for the AAA 'Art Rendezvous'. A number of us artists will be spending the day at the exhibition to meet people, talk about our work and do some painting while we are there. Really looking forward to it! You can find out more about the exhibition here or at www.associationanimalartists.co.uk.

Be lovely to see you there on Sunday if you can make it!

Another mini-painting up for grabs on eBay.

Usual 5" x 7" format and still at 1p at time of writing! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180645449927

Charity eBay Auction Update

I was really pleased that the charity eBay auction of 'Washing Down' made it into Horse & Hound magazine's news on their website- you can see the article here.

The auction is currently up to £173, it finishes on Tuesday evening. 100% of the proceeds go to the Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Fund (Global Giving) so a great way to bag a bargain oil painting while supportive a very deserving cause at the same time.

1p start price for original painting on eBay, raising money for the relief effort in Japan.

This original painting is currently offered on eBay starting at 1p with 100% of the proceeds going to the relief efforts in Japan

Like most people I am finding it hard to get my head round the situation in Japan right now, I just can't imagine what the people affected m...ust be going through, it's awful :-( This painting produced in 2009 is sat in my house going to waste- thought someone might like to have it and maybe make a little bit of money for an incredibly worthy cause at the same time.

It's called 'Washing Down', a fairly big 30" x 24" oil on stretched linen, sold unframed. It was based on photographs I took of horses being cooled off after Badminton XC in 2009.

'Together' Finished

Finally finished this painting. I signed it today but as usual it will sit on my wall for a few months until all the bits I didn't notice need more work start to bug me... once they are fixed it will be properly scanned.

'Together' (the Friesian pair still in progress)

Managed to put in a fair few hours on this in the few days since my last post and hope to get it finished in one more sitting, maybe tomorrow if the ground shadows are dry. Decided to title it 'Together', I am so rubbish at thinking up titles!

Another Friesian update.

Another few hours spent on the front horse today re-establishing the highlights and adding colour. I keep lifting off the dark areas when I'm working as they are taking a long time to dry so I think I'll do a bit more work on the front horse's face this evening, stick the floor shadows down, give them tails, and then leave it for a week to dry properly before getting back to it. It's still quite rough close up! It is really hard to judge the darks as they all sink a bit once they are dry; I'm toying with the idea of adding a layer of retouch varnish to give everything an even gloss and see where I am at better!


Need to think of a title too...