Wednesday 4 December 2019

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.

Monday 2 December 2019

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