Drawings and Sketches

Failed Horse Painting

My sister Becca sketched this horse for me so I thought it would be a great chance to do something new while also reviving my landscape painting skills.

 It started out OK but as I reached for my painting knives to give a bit more body to the grasses and things my old instincts took over and before you knew it this painting disappeared under a series of frustrating attempts at abstract paintings.
  

5 paintings later I ended up with this:

This is really different for me but I was thinking of flowers against a stained glass window as an image I could use on sympathy cards in my Zazzle store.

Playing with wood cut outs

Every now and then people bring me stuff to paint on to see what sorts of ideas I can come up with. The Halloween cat idea looks promising but the butterfly idea needs work.