Marylyn Monroe on the easel

Three stages of an oil painting in progress and DEFINITELY not finished yet.

Cawood Arts Festival

Am I a little proud tonight , having just got back from welcoming number three son back from his tour , I arrived back at the Cawoid arts festival awards night with fifteen mins to spare after a four and a half hour , 204 mile drive to get these !

Black and white drawing category first prize with , " Jimi Hendrix" 

Oils category first prize with "Mother's wartime help" (sold)

 Any other media , category , first prize with , " The sundance kid". 

And third prize with , "Ballet practice" which was also shown framed. (Now sold) 

And here are the certificates to prove I wasn't dreaming. 

As any Yorkshireman would say, " I'm chuffed" 

Eastern Promise

Simple charcoal sketch , .....again ! 

Whenever I need to build that ole confidence I drop back to what I know. This took about 45 mins.

Sister piece.

Some time ago I drew this weird and wonderful arty piece......

Which I then had framed so it now looks like this.....and is available for purchase at the Bare Wall art gallery in Thorganby nr York.

I have now done this companion piece .......which is actually a rough draft but I'm loving it. 

Let me know what you think should you wander by here. 

You looking at me

Workng on this stylish lady at the moment who seems to be annoyed that we've interrupted her texting .

Sand dune jumping 2 ( nearly done) update

This is a larger version of a painting I did a few weeks ago. In short I found the photo online contacted the owner , gained permission to use the photo and did a small painting for her as a thank you. 

Just need a bit more work on the trainers I think. 

Completed 

Commission piece

This is a pastel piece done for a lady at the art club I attend. This is her granddaughter , she asked me to paint her in anything but pastel ! 

I tried , oils, acrylics and then a pencil sketch, all with no success. 

I then asked for a different photo and tried pastels ! Oops 

Anything but pastel she said !