‘April’, my first horse painting goes on holiday tomorrow - it’s the RA Summer Exhibition hand-in. Only time will tell if she gets in or just has a short sojourn in a back room somewhere before I pick her up in a couple of weeks. I’ll keep you posted.

Here’s my painting from Saturday, produced in oils in about 2 and a half hours. I struggled badly with this but I think it came right in the end. I can see some areas that need redefining, but ultimately I like it. It’s 14 x 10 inches on oil paper.

I’m still in a quandary over what to enter into the Summer Show, thinking that these two below might better fulfill this year’s theme of  ‘Raw’: ‘The co-ordinators have agreed that the theme for 2010 will be Raw. They wish to ‘cut to the chase’ and take a look behind the exterior of the pristine; [...]

You’ve got to be in it to win it, so again, I’m thinking of entering the RA Summer Show. This year’s theme is RAW, though work doesn’t have to correspond to that. Here are the two I’m thinking of entering, though I might enter one alone. Any (polite) thoughts?… left or right?

I do a lot of life drawing…every other Saturday for three & a half hours…for the past nine years. I daren’t do the maths. So, it stands to reason I’ll have a lot of paintings & drawings from the sessions.
Here’s a recent selection of my 5-minute sketches. I tend to use pastel for the warm-up [...]

I have done SO much life drawing. It’s been rather refreshing to try something different, at the London Road Group. I took photos months & months ago of a friend’s horse and final managed a study in oil.
Here’s some work in progress shots:
And here’s the final:

I can’t wait to do some more when we next [...]