The Tower of London

This is the London with the Thames in the front. I have completed this to go with my other London  townscape images, which can be found on my London Townscapes Page which will be updated with more as I continue the series.

Tower Bridge Sketch - London

This is one of the longest sketches that I have EVER done as it took me over 2 months!! But never mind, I am really happpy with the result as with the next sketch I do I will upload a step by step guide, so I hope you will like it! With this picture I did the base sketch, as I always do then I went in with the shadow and  various tones. Please take a look at the rest of my London collection on my London townscapes page.

Dover Castle

This was actually done quite a while a go, during this year's summer holiday. It was inspired by a visit there which was AMAZING! There where great views and from Dover you can see france and all the ferries going back and fourth from there. One piece of advice I do have for anyone off to Dover Castle is to take very good notice of the map and look at things in sequence, as the length of the castle is very long and you don't want  to be walking it too many times like we ended up doing!!  Anyway back to the image! This is a tonal pencil sketch I did on a very cheap A5 cartridge pad, £2.50 to be precise but it does the job, which in my case is pencil sketching!

Ballerina

Here is my second pastel painting, the inspiration came from the next issue of the "Paint Magazine". The image depicts a ballerina, lit up and figures on watching her in the distance. However if I was to do this again, I wouldn't do it on rough waterclour paper where it is going to leave a slightly strange effect.

My Art Wordle

This is the Wordle I am using for the front page of my arts award portforlio, check it out and PLEASE leave me some comments!
 
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4444116/Art_Wordle_
 
 

Hylands Park

Today we went to Hylands Park to a craft show. We arrived at Hylands park and went around the grounds of Hylands Park. The show was actually held in the house. We looked around the house as there was still the usual exhibitions in there. The crafts ranged from knitting to watercolour painting. We saw aa couple of stands with watercolour paintings on. Many of these paintings had a watercolour theme of winter paintings. This gave me quite alot of inspiration for christmas cards. Some of these ideas included robins and a fireplace scene.The fireplace scene included a fireplace with a cat on christmas eve with stockings hung up. That particular picture was painted by Jenny Henderson, a member of the Essex Guild of Crafts. Also in the crafts fair were also things like these really nice knitted scarfs, but they were knitted loosely on very thick needles so looked very lace like. Among the other crafts were photography, clothing and felt crafts.

Dog

This is my first but recent soft pastel painting I got this picture from the front page of the "Paint" magazine that comes montly from the SAA. I have blended different colours of pastels to create the brown on the dog. Please leave lots of comments!

My Dad

I couldn't be doing my art hero without including my Dad. He has been painting for about 3/4 of a year longer than me and focuses on watercolour painting. He bases his ideas from pictures in magazines and painting books but adapts them to create his own paintings. Click here to visit his gallery on painters online and please leave him comments!