Sunshine Shoppers in Newcastle

This painting was "started" out doors,the street is High bridge Newcastle Upon tyne, the painting was finished in the studio as it was to difficult to complete the two girls outside, I think I was more than a little ambitious to concentrate on the figures rather than just the street and there is to much detailed brush work, the next Plein Air painting will not include such close up figures and will be very loose.

Oil 12"x12"

German Shepherd

15"x20" Oil on board commission

Jack Russell

Original Oil

Tyne Bridge Newcastle upon tyne

I have painted this scene many many times from life and from photos, I can paint it without a reference hanging upside down with both hands tied behind my back while people throw rocks at me , sorry!, during the 90s I used to sell my paintings at a Sunday Art Market situated on Armstrong Bridge in Newcastle and the sales from this image alone used to keep me going, I am about to start a new series of Plein Air paintings, working on the streets of Newcastle and Hexham, this was a small warm up painting.

Newcastle United Fans

A video of this painting being painted can be viewed on utube, Click Here to watch .

Border Terrier

The Painting video for utube is not going to well so back to Dogs for the moment !

Original Oil 30x20cm

Yawning Springer

Original Oil

Jack Russells

Another dog painting, I am going to make a video of the next painting so you may not here from me for a while as its all a little complicated for me , I have had my computer for less than a year so I am learning as I go step by step as they say, back soon "in colour"

Marlon Brando Sketch

Just made this short video. Note : you may have to wait after clicking play for the video to load,. Allow it to play out then play again !

North Tyne Hounds

A painting for Owen "Huntsman" for the North Tyne Hunt, he is leaving to join the Coniston Hunt in the Lake District.

I do not Hunt myself but over the years have received commissiones from a large number of hunts to paint hounds. 41cmx 41cm oil on board.

Royal Ascot

Hard to paint from above , I am pleased this one is finished.

PUG

You do not see many pugs but they are surprisingly popular dogs, Pug owners are usually "Pug mad" and have one after the other, Strange looking dogs, good to paint !

Weimaraner ( Clarke )

A painting for a friend "Doc".

The Dog (Clarke) sadly died before his time

in oct 2009

Border Terriers

I am very happy with the outcome of this painting .

Emotion

Original oil

Quiet Night

Original Oil on board 15cm x 15cm.

Concentrate

Dancing couple, fully engrossed in the moment.

Original oil on board 22x22cm

Thanks to peter forret ( photographer ) for allowing me to paint from his photo

Intense

Another Flamenco Dancer, oil on gessoed board 13x30cm .

by the Moonlight

This is another small painting, it is 16x11cm. I have found that Painting so small gives me more freedom of brushwork, less fuss, which is a good thing , if you paint, give it a try !

Lovers

I am happy with this, this is getting there, not for the actual image but for the way the paint was applied, The picture may look the same as the others to you, its just "little" things that went right for me.

Thanks to Peter Forret the Photorapher who gave me permission to use his photo as a reference.

Flamenco Dancer 2

I have already painted this a week or so ago, I thought I would have another go ! I prefer the other to this one myself , I tried to add colour and to lighten it up a little.

Close up

I had to slim this girl down quite a bit and change her clothes, she has ended up looking like my wife "Deb" strange! Thats me in the hat!

Flirt

Its taken longer to think of a name for this painting than it took to paint it, I give up !

It looks like a easy image to title but just try it without being to obvious, actually ive had a good laugh thinking of daft titles for it ..... "DAVE".... was the best I could think of.

Last Dance

This painting was not quite dry, the flash is reflecting in the wet paint a little but you can still see whats going on, been there ! seen it, done it, hope to do it again !

Flamenco Dancer

I find it quite difficult to paint highlighted skin tones from out of the darkness, I usually paint very quickly but this painting slowed me down a little, I will try some more !