117 Ochres portrait cont.

A bit of body colour, ironically not ochre! I have used sienna and burnt sienna so far!

116 Ochres portrait cont.

I nearly forgot to add her little white spot!

Ochres portrait - oil on board

Coming along nicely, trying to resist using white so just adding a few tones with Naples yellow, if you haven't used it you must its a wonderful colour. 

114 Ochres fur - oil on board

Now, it's a busy week, but this is a great way to squeeze in a bit of painting! Slowly slowly catchy puppy painting.

113 Ochre, collar

A little red on the collar and a bit more work in the darks.

112 Ochre - oil on board

Owing  to her red collar and reddish tones in her fur ochre the puppy qualifies for a painting during the year of red so her goes an oil painting of her facing away from me.

111 Puppy lead training

We had a special puppy lead training session this morning........

110 Self portrait in a fez, again

So, this is a bit of a cheat, in that I made the lino plate for this print during last years daily nonsense. But today we did a lino and wood cut workshop with the fine art students. As a test piece we used this plate. I loved the colour so much that today's post is dedicated to Pantone red. Mmm mmm.

109 Self portrait in a fez - digital painting

The best red hat hat ever invented.

108 Can of Coca cola

A digital drawing of a well known cola variety,

107 Swatches 2 - oil on canvas

Another swatch painting.... Mostly because it been a long day, and it rhymes with watch and that reminds me of apples silly iwatch. I stopped wearing a watch about five years ago..

106 Swatches

Free form colours!

105 Tints - oil paint

My main red oil colours that I use on my palette, from the top burnt sienna, carmine lake extra cadmium red dark, cadmium red light and brilliant rose. Each one with its tint alongside with progressively more zinc white.

104 colour range - pencil crayons

Here is a basic layout of the range of colour that is permissible during this years painting marathon. From red to orange to pink to magenta to burnt sienna and everything I between.