The Painted Portrait

18/04/2023

A blast from the past

27/11/2022

Blast from the past :)
Oil painting

21/10/2022

This is a painting of my boy, Hunter :)

08/07/2022

Blast from the past! Coloured pencil drawing.
Yes! I take commissions!

03/07/2022

Lots of fun with this bright eyed little terrier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOo1wGyMXjA

02/07/2022

Was with my amazing granddaughter at a dance Eisteddfod.
Let me know if you would like your pet painted in pop! (not p**p)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srn0ATwdkrw

01/07/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqRK_bfrFek&t=9s

My aim is to do 100 of these colourful little paintings in 100 days! If you would like your pet to be part of the project here are the details...The paintin...

22/06/2022

I painted COWS!

13/06/2022

I painted chickens! I have 7 chickens, ISA browns, and pretty little X breeds. One of them lays bluey/green eggs!

31/05/2022

Yes I am painting. No I can't show you. Just wanted to tell you in case you thought I'd disappeared again! Two commissions I'll show after they have been given to the recipient :)

26/05/2022

A look back on a few pencil portraits.

23/05/2022

I'm doing a painting a little differently. I'm doing each "layer" as in sky, distant, middle, foreground, and putting up real time video's of each one. It's a bit different in style because it's directed for a children's book about a horse that falls in love with a unicorn. Originally it was going to be two unicorns, but I can think of more story lines if one is a horse 🙂 Part one - The sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYH_0UwupR0

In this second video of my unicorns meeting I'm painting the sky using three colours. Naming the unicorns will be open until the painting is finished! Leav...

21/05/2022

My new focus - fantasy. This is a real time video of the drawing behind the painting. I need names for the unicorns!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4iNKbI6uUc

Juan Carlos Berrío this is for you.Starting from scratch, this video is the drawing for a painting in real time. I will follow this with further real time v...

19/05/2022

Another horse - this time "Sunrise at the beach" complete with gloomy Sunshine Coast clouds.

10/05/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWyBhEs5cA

Timelapse in gouache paint.My favourite brands?Royal Talen extra fine HolbeinM.Graham

07/05/2022

Foal in Gouache. I'm definitely obsessed with horses - just as I was when I was a child. It's been 22 years and a hip replacement since I last owned my own horse and that long since I rode. Except now I've started again! Ely McCarthy from https://www.facebook.com/Yeaorneighhorsemanship is giving me lessons and if you are on the Sunshine Coast I recommend her highly for horsemanship - more then just riding, how to keep your horse, mentally and physically well and happy. OMG I'm so excited about horses again!

05/05/2022

I think I missed a bit. Often happens when I stop to let it dry, or let the camera cool down - I start again and forget to turn it on again! Oh well!

04/05/2022

A commission for a lovely lady and her Brumby from "The Brumby Project", Big Mack. Thank you Audrey Straatsma

29/04/2022

29/04/2022

Sphynx cat in gouache

28/04/2022

Time lapse painting of a French Bulldog.

26/04/2022

Todays painting comes with thanks from Ely McCarthy from https://www.facebook.com/Yeaorneighhorsemanship
This is Poppy, she recently gave birth to twins, one girl and one boy. Clever Poppy :)

26/04/2022

I better do some other animals soon, or you will think I'm hooked on horses!

25/04/2022

Horses are much on my mind lately, I'm even dreaming about them.
Gouache on Watercolour paper. 5 x 7 inches.

23/04/2022

23/04/2022