Day 67 - Golspie evening, low tide.

Title – Golspie evening, low tide.
Price: £80.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

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After supper in the chip shop last night with my mum, dad, daughter and my aunty from Ireland the sky was turning a really pretty colour so I decided to go behind the chip shop and paint the sea at low tide. I really love the evening (and early morning) skies here especially when the tide is out showing all the seaweed on the beach. I will try to do another of the sea while I am here although time is running out! My brother took my aunt back to the airport this morning and I am taking my daughter back to the airport this afternoon so hope to do a painting on the way home too! I would like to have had time to do some sketches in my own sketchbooks but it looks like there won’t be time. Haven’t even had time to see my friend who lives here in the village here yet. OH for more time…

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Day 66 - Highland wayside / Día 66 - Camino Highland

Title – Highland wayside.
Price: £70.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board / Técnica: Óleo sobre tabla
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

Esta es una de las dos pinturas que hizo el día antes de ayer en el camino hacia el aeropuerto para recoger a mi hija. Se trata de un poco de la cuneta en el camino a través de la Struie, los hermosos colores son lo que me llamó la atención, pero como de costumbre, que se inició en la niebla escocesa opacar el sol entonces salió y cambió todos los colores! Una fiesta de bodas de oro muy tradicional para mis padres con la banda de gaitas Sutherland Escuelas no jugar todos los favoritos de Escocia! / This is one of the two paintings I did the day before yesterday on the way to the airport to collect my daughter. This is a little bit of the wayside on the way across the Struie, the lovely colours are what caught my eye but as usual, having started in the dull scotch mist the sun then came out and changed all the colours! Had a very traditional Golden wedding party for my parents with the Sutherland Schools pipe band there playing all the Scottish favourites! /

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Day 65 - Ruin in the Scottish Highlands / Día 65 - Ruina en las Highlands escocesas

Title – Ruin in the Scottish Highlands.
Price: SOLD(includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

Este es uno de los dos cuadros que hice ayer en el camino hacia el aeropuerto para recoger a mi hija. Esto es de un molino en ruinas, cerca de hilatura Spinningdale en Sutherland. ¿Tienes un día ocupado por delante de nuevo con la parte posterior de mi mamá y papá. La esperanza de obtener algún cuadro más hecho esta mañana antes de él sin embargo.  /   This is one of the two paintings I did yesterday on the way to the airport to collect my daughter. This is of a ruined spinning mill near Spinningdale in Sutherland. Got a busy day ahead again with the party later for my mum and dad. Hope to get some more painting done this morning before it though.

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Dia 64 - El árbol solitario. / Day 64 - The Lone Tree.

Title: The Lone Tree.
Price: £80.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board / Técnica: Óleo sobre tabla
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

Así que aquí está la otra pintura que hice ayer, que literalmente se volvió mi silla alrededor de la pintura del lago y vio este árbol solitario en el lado de la colina con (el único) trozos de cielo azul en todo! No se pudo resistir a ella, así que comenzó a pintar de nuevo.Una vez que he hecho esto por hoy me voy fuera a pintar de nuevo en el camino de Inverness a recoger a mi hija desde el aeropuerto. /  So here is the other painting I did yesterday, I literally turned my chair around from painting the loch and saw this lonesome tree on the side of the hill with (the only) bits of blue sky around! Couldn’t resist it so I started painting again. Once I have done this for today I am going off painting again on the way to Inverness to collect my daughter from the airport.

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Day 63 - Scottish Loch

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Title: Scottish Loch.
Price: £80.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

First full day here so went out painting in the hills. I have been itching to get the heather painted for a long time but I normally come in winter so it’s usually snow scenes!!
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Day 62 - Mini mares

Title: Mini Mares.
Price: £45.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Pencil
Size: 5cm x 12.5cm

Driven all the way up to the North of Scotland today! Quite a long drive but at least I can get the internet with this dongle thing! Wasn't sure if I would be able to get it or not. Whew. This is a little drawing I have done of some Andalucian mares high up in the Pyrenneas (spelt wrongly no doubt!), it's a little less detailed than I normally do but I thought it worked.

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Day 61 - Border Collie portrait

Title: Border Collie portrait.
Price: £70.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 25cm x 20cm (size of board as shown)

It's an early one today, been up at the crack of dawn (nearly). Here is a collie that I really like, she is quite a freckly collie. Got a very long day ahead of me, work first then driving onto Yorkshire ready to get up to North Scotland tomorrow!

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Day 60 - Two wolves/ Dos Lobos

Title: Two wolves/Dos Lobos.
Price: £65.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Pencil
Size: 16cm x 12cm

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Fancied something different today and thought about wolves so why not I asked myself! So here are a couple of European wolves for you to see today. After today for about a week I will be relying on a dongle and laptop so please bare with me if I don't get here - I can assure you I will still post the same number of pics even if it means doing 2 on one day if the internet is dodgy!

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Day 59 - High Spirits.

Title: High Spirits.
Price: £70.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Pencil on heavyweight cartridge paper
Size: 12.5cm x 16cm

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Back to the safety zone of pencil drawings today! This Lusitano 3 year old was also one of the stars of my Boys will be Boys drawing. He was fantastic to watch, so exuberant and energetic and a bit of a top man! He enjoyed play fighting with a number of other colts who were in the same area. This was when I went to Portugal a couple of years ago and visited a really great stud of Lusitano horses.

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Day 58 - Coloured Foal.

Title: Coloured Foal.
Price: £80.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 25cm x 20cm (size of board as shown)

Here is the painting I did with the aim of trying out brighter colours! I really wanted the foal to stand out and look like he was in bright sunshine. This little chap I found on Bodmin Moor with what seemed like hundreds of mares and foals. I deliberately kept the background very plain to bring the foal forward. The size quoted is the size of the board, purchaser may want to cut it down to eliminate the unpainted board to 21cm x 18cm approx. (I can do this if required)

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Day 57 - Donkey head study

Title: Donkey Head Study.
Price: SOLD(includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 25cm x 20cm (size of board)

I have been playing with different things today with oils. This painting I wanted to show textures, the very fluffy forehead, the shorter hair on the lower half of the nose and the skin around the muzzle area. Done another picture today as I got up nice and early which I concentrated on colours without getting hung up on anatomy... It will be here another day!

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Day 56 - 2 horses in barn.

Title: 2 horses in barn.
Price: £60.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm

I have been painting from life today. These two horses were tied up in the barn for a group of us to paint or draw. I had to try to finish it off at home tonight and photograph it whilst wet. It's a bit shiny and not quite true to colour as I cannot get the light right on it. It was a really difficult picture to paint as the horses wouldn't stand still for long and nobody was holding them. It's a bit dull in colour because it was a really dismal damp grey day and with them being in the barn too, it made it even harder to paint. Enjoyed the company and the day out though. Did a different horse in the afternoon and that turned out a complete disaster!

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Day 55 - Dartmoor Tors.

Title: Dartmoor Tors.
Price: £60.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm (approx)

This is one I have had to finish off a bit putting more into the foreground. Want to do more sheep, I really enjoyed doing them!

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Day 54 - Scottish Estuary in winter

Title: Scottish Estuary in winter.
Price: £75.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 20cm x 15cm

I rather like doing snowy, cold wintery scenes as you might have gathered by now. This is the Loch Fleet Estuary near Golspie in Sutherland, North Scotland in December. I love the colours in these winter scenes.

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Day 53 - Tiny mini Doma Vaquera

Title: Tiny Mini Doma Vaquera.
Price: £35.00 (includes postage within UK, for other destinations please contact me)
Medium: Pencil
Size: 7cm x 7cm

I think this is the smallest picture on the blog so far... a tiny mini Doma vaquera drawing. It is only 7cm squared ... a very dainty little piece! I promise I will do some other horse subjects rather than just doma vaquera ones but I just love them! //   

Creo que esta es la más pequeña foto en el blog hasta ahora ... un pequeño mini-Doma vaquera dibujo. Es sólo 7 cm cuadrado ... una pequeña pieza muy delicada! Te prometo que haré algunos temas otro caballo en lugar de sólo los doma vaquera, pero los amo!

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