Trig Point on Watership Down (November)

We were up on Watership Down last weekend, and this is from a photograph that I took then. The cow parsley seed heads are quite difficult to render with a knife, but they do add interest to a bleak November scene.

Oil on canvas, 9 x 12"

Mural Brush is a Painting of the Month for December

Well, look at that! My Mural Brush is one of Painters Online's Gallery Images of the Month for December. That's two months in a row, what with the sunflower being in November's selection.

I do notice a certain wintry colour theme running through the selection.

I rather like Mural Brush - in fact, I had already framed it, in a rather ad hoc manner:

Autumn Soup

The pumpkin isn't going to last much longer, so I had to paint this last night. It's always slightly chancey under artificial light, I find, but it still looks okay this morning.

30x30cm, oil on stretched natural linen canvas.

Icy Day on Wokefield Common - SOLD

"Wokefield Ice"

in-progress shots

It has turned cold lately, but this is from one of last winter's photographs. The iced-over pond on Wokefield Common has been on my list of subjects for a while.

Oil on linen canvas, 30 x 40 cm
21 November 2013 - SOLD
(I put the wrong date on the canvas!)

Squash Sketches

A pumpkin that survived Hallowe'en and a butternut squash that survived soup... three sketches in different media.

LEGO Minifigures 89: Not The Doctor (Man with Brown Case)

I was asked about a male medical doctor figure.

Under the Windows: Four School Mural Panels, in progress

Here are the beginnings of the "muralised" panels under the windows at the front of the school.

Mural Brush

With able assistance from some of the school children, I have been working on the next phase of the exterior school mural.

Unfortunately, I didn't take any photographs, so you'll have to make do with this painted sketch of my favourite mural brush until I do.

SOLD

News from the Twitterverse

November is #portraitnovember this year on Twitter. And then some of the artists ran out of people to make portraits of (or something like that) and started #artmypropic, which means "turn my profile picture into art".

And just in case you were wondering...

I think this might be the painting on the easel in my triple self portrait...

Triple Self Portrait at Eleven Years' Remove (Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Woman)

2002. 11 years ago.

A sketch; a curiosity.

I was working on a self portrait and I noticed that, with the curtains open after dark, I happened to have placed the mirror (hung on the easel) such that I could see my side profile refelected in the window and the mirror. The reflection was too delicate, too obscure, to capture with a camera, so I drew it.

Drawing in makeup

Hello.

This is me, in the makeup that I rarely wear. I'm not wearing it in the picture. I drew the picture using the makeup. I used: eyeliner, lipstick, concealer, some of that stuff that you put all over your face as a base layer and I've forgotten what it's called, mascara, and eyeshadow. There was also a bit of cheap white facepaint.

LEGO Minifigures 88: Witch

"What do you mean, Hallowe'en was yesterday?"

Acrylic on canvas, 7x7cm
31 October 2013