Artwork

I started drawing as a child.  Very quickly, it became clear ... I had talent.  My favourite subject for artwork, has always been horses.

This water colour painting of "Mare With Blaze" used a technique known as gouache (thick paint).  It is my preferred method of painting and is repeated ...

... on this very sad-eyed hound.

 

Using an ordinary pencil on art paper, I drew this mare and foal when I was in my very early teens.  It still hangs in my father's house.

 

My very first try at oil painting.  It was based on a paint-by-number painting and it very quickly left me knowing I don't like working with oil paints.

 

The last time I painted with oil paint, "Midnight by Moonlight" is (in my father's words) strikingly realistic.  Who am I to argue with the old man, at least not in this instance, lol

 

Painted in less than 20 minutes, "Mount Carmel Arm at Sunset" was the view out of what was my parent's summer home in Mount Carmel, St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland. 

 It was back in the early 1980's so the trees are much taller now.  It's a more traditional use of water colour paints.

 

I 'borrowed' this photo of Annie Lennex so you can compare it to my free hand sketch of her, done while I was away at Fashion Design at Holland College.