New Art

One more day to go. Non-stop talking, so many interested people and so much amazing talent. Here's yours truly,demonstrating on the stand.  ...

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A very busy first day at Waterperry,non stop talking and so much fabulous work to see.  I am in theNature in Art section with many talented wildlife artists, it's behind the garden centre if you are visiting, so do come and see us.  ...

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All done and off to the printers tomorrow! More photos to show the scale and detail.  I'm really enjoying this technique using a combination of resist, underpainting with conte pastels and baby oil, then layering coloured pencil into baby oil, lifting the excess and finally applying the detail. Baby oil is liquid paraffin wax not an oil and unless over applied will not stain the paper permanently but the colour...

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I've been keeping a low profile on my blog lately whilst working on this large clematis drawing. This is the first of a series of much larger than life drawings which I have been burning to do for a long time. Three times life size, the drawing measures nearly a meter wide and I've still a bit to do before it goes to be scanned. I'll keep you posted on...

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