Red Admirals

Hi all,
I've just done a video of how I painted the two red admiral butterflies and uploaded it to youtube. If you would lke to see how I went about it please click on the link below. If you like what you see please consider subscibing because I will have another video coming along soon.

Here is a decent picture of the actual finished painting. It looks like a lot of detailed work but if you watch the video you will see that it is easier than it looks.

I think that it is amazing how quickly one learns to paint when using digital techniques. I struggled for years with watercolour and, to be honest, I didn't actually produce anything fantastic. I would describe my watercolours has, mediocre. If you want to see how much I have improved since I started painting on the ipad last Christmas, check out the gallery tabs at the top of the page.

Partridge done in pencil

Hi all,
Just updated the galleries. Two new digital painting, one of a pair of red admiral butterflies and the other of a long tailed tit that stopped still long enough for me to get a reference photo of him.
I have also upload a new image on the traditional art page.

I'm trying to spend a bit less time on the digital to give my eyes a bit of a break. So I have done a pencil drawing of a partridge and I think it is my best pencil drawing ever. I think the improvement is due to the time spent on the ipad. I have learnt a lot through digital painting because it is so easy to try something and if it doesn't work nothing is lost. I just erase the bit I don't like or delete a layer and I'm back to where I was. With traditional art there was always the fear of taking a risk because the painting could be ruined and I guess that led to mediocrity, well in my case it did.

Here is the partridge but please take a look at the others as well.

 Thanks for looking