The Rutting Season

In the rutting season the Red Deer become very vocal and bellow a roar accross Richmond Park. The Park echoed with these strange calls when I visited last October. This is a small A4 pastel painting, helping me to ease myself back into my work. I have a small oil painting lined up for my next work, again a red deer stag.

Fallow deer in Richmond Park

Back in the Autumn I went to up to one of my favourite places, Richmond Park with the hope to photograph the rutting deer. I unfortunately didn't catch them in action, however all the deer were looking magnificent hoping to impress the ladies!
This is a small pastel painting of a fallow deer, these guys are much shyer then the red deer, often hiding in the wooded areas of the park. In October however, all the deer get much braver coming out into open to rut, which gave me lots of great opportunities to get photos of this usually timid deer.

Stage 4 - linocut

Yes its a penguin! I'm now at stage 4, my inexperience is showing in my dodgy registration! I quite like the irregularities of the printing on their bodies, it gives them a nice texture. I definitely have one more stage, I'm also thinking more texture in the white on his chest.

A new skill for a New Year

Can you tell what it is yet...! Well this is a my attempt to get to grips with linocut. I'm printing from multiple lino pieces using a key lino block to transfer an identical image onto each piece of lino.

So far we are two stages in, already I have some slight registration problems on the left hand side.

I plumped for this technique over the reduction linocut (a technique where you use one piece of lino print a stage and cut out, print again, cut out more etc, until most of the lino is gone), as I like the idea that I can have unlimited goes at the print using different colours reusing my multiple pieces of lino. The down-side was more cutting to create the different stages of lino.

So I'm keeping the subject a secret my only clue is that it is a creature, hopefully all will become clear in time!

Happy 2013!

I've had a lovely start to the year, I've just heard my squirrel pastel painting 'Watching" has neen selected for an animal open exhibition, Noah's Art.

For more information here's a link.

https://www.facebook.com/OrleansHouseGallery/posts/430713453665537

Getting ready to rut

I got up into Richmond Park a few weeks back, during rutting season. This is the time to catch the stag looking magnificant. I would have liked to captured the stag actually rutting, but didn't get lucky this year. This handsome stag had been practising his rutting moves in the long grasses, you can see the tangled grass still in his antlers. 

I thought I was in luck and a rut was about to happen between this guy and another stag, he charged towards his rival, and I pointed my camera, but then he ducked out at the last moment. 

I can only wonder if on closer inspection of this rival he thought better of it!

KAOS Fair Art Fair is back!

Yes we're back for Xmas, has really a whole year gone by already!

We'll be selling affordable Art all under £100, so a great gift for Xmas. The exhibition opens every day from November 25th until December 8th in the Market House, Kingston.