Monday, August 15, 2011

Black Cockatoos- charcoal drawing

Just finished this drawing today, thought I'd play around with my charcoal sticks and draw the landscape that surrounds my house. The panel of flying cockatoos is actually a piece of watercolour paper with torn edges and is a separate piece glued on to the charcoal drawing to give it a sort of 2D effect.

Dragonfly Painting



This fun painting has just been SOLD and it was relatively fast and easy to produce so I may do a series of these around the same theme.

Pet Portrait

This is a watercolour painting I did for friends who's beautiful dog

'Boris' had passed away. Many hours of fine brush strokes creating the fur nearly sent me crazy but I think the detail was needed to bring out just how thick his coat was.