A church painted with lots of artistic licence , the challenge was to paint something spooky.  Oil pastels once more.

Spooky church

Sketch one… using pencil and inktense wash

Sketch two……. Same again pencil and inktense wash.

The combined digital painting of the three dogs, no photo manipulation… painted in Painter X using the charcoal and pastel tools plus blenders with some textures added for the background.

You have two hours to do a sketch or painting and then post in the forum, then it’s up to you whether you take it further, I usually do as I  really don’t like leaving work unfinished.

I painted the grapes below whilst sat in the garden on a beautifully sunny day.  Water colours this time which I haven’t attempted for a long time.

The fox I just couldn’t resist, oil pastels on black colorfix paper.

The hats were done with water soluble oil pastels, the challenge was to emulate the artist Marc Franz, this was my attempt, very abstract for me  ……I really enjoyed this one found it quite relaxing to paint in a different style.

More later.

A quick sketch done for WDE, this time charcoal and conte on water-colour paper, time taken about 1.1/4 hours.

This was done as a challenge for the WDE at Wet Canvas. A really good excercise in tonal values.
All done in Painter X using Wacom Intuous 4 pen, tools used were pencil and chalk plus a blender.
I’m very pleased with the final outcome.

This is Keeta with her Easter hat on two hours work done with oil pastels.

My interest in fractals still remains strong, even though most of the time what I produce are happy incidents, I cannot claim to fully understand Apophysis, but do enjoy whiling away a few hours to produce something beautiful and creative. Here are a few more that I have created.

I love the Autumn colours in this one.

Well it does look a bit like geese to me, the border was added in Paint Shop Pro.

These last two are rather nice for Valentines Day.

More later.

Here are some recent examples of my work using Apophysis, all are raw fractals, by that  I mean that each one is started with a new blank flame, all my own work.

This first one I have called Victoriana, which I think is self descriptive.

This second one …. Moonlight Becomes You…. I’m particularly fond of,  it took a lot of tweaking to get this image the way I wanted it to look but well worth the effort.

As for Floral Fantasy, I was really overjoyed with, I think I spent more time on getting the right gradient for this to work so well than creating the actual fractal, once again it was well worth the time and effort spent.

The following two fractals were done over the Christmas period, I was very pleased at how these turned out especially O Tannenbaum, as I specifically set out to produce a fir tree, you can imagine my delight when I did, I then added some snow using Corel Painter X.

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You can see more of my work at:- link

This is my latest piece which is currently listed on Ebay, it’s 6.” x 8″ painted using soft pastels and pastel pencils on Fisher400 pastel paper. Fisher400 paper is a new paper on the market and it really is a remarkable paper, it can be used with any media it seems, I’ve tried acrylics, water colours, soft pastels and oil pastels on this paper, it’s sturdy and takes loads of layers without using fixative, you can even wash off the pastel under a tap without losing the tooth of the paper.

I also have another ACEO card for sale, this one has been painted with acrylics.

I have a couple of ideas whirling about in my head for my next paintings, deciding which to do first is an issue at the moment.

This is in my opinion a lovely cheerful painting for Easter.

The second is of a little Shih-Tzu dog called Lucy, resting on a cosy cushion

and lastly another cutie, this is Charlie a King Charles Cavalier puppy:

As it’s Easter I’m thinking of painting a lamb, it’s just that at the moment, a thought.

Happy Easter!