Miss Daisy progresses

Being happy with the background, I have been laying down a few washes on Miss Daisy.


So far, so good. Well, that's what I think - what do you think?

Miss Daisy - minus film

The cling film is off - and this is what Miss Daisy looks like now.



I'm quite happy with this as a background, so I am going to leave it be and paint Miss Daisy next.

Painting Miss Daisy

Using of one my friend's photos, I drew a pencil drawing of a cow.
I fancied having a bit of an experiment with this one, so feel free to tell me at any stage of the painting what you think of it :)
Here's the pencil drawing


and here's the first experimental background, using a mixture of cling film and sea salt.


Paintings under cling film take ages to dry - well they do on Arches 140lb rough, so this was all I got to do in the first day.

Waking, sleeping and a special blankie.

We took some beautiful pics of Missy this weekend, so I wanted to share them.
Firstly, Paul took one of her after she had just woken from being asleep on my lap.....


and then I took one when she retired to a very special blankie, that was Spotty's. I recently came across it in one of the boxes I was unpacking. I scrunched it up and held it close, remembering my first girl. When I put it on the sofa, Missy jumped straight up on it and curled up! No sniffing, no turning, just a comfortable curl and sleep.
My precious girls.

Steaming Into Texas

Steaming Into Texas

This painting will be added to my permanent gallery site
Pat Elliott Paintings

Steam train - billowing steam

This is the next stage of the painting, where I have painted the billowing steam.

All that's left to do is the the train itself and the painting will be complete.

Steam train

A good friend of mine went on a day out and took some lovely photos of the stream trains she saw.
She allowed me to use the photos to make a painting.

Here's a picture of the train, followed by my pencil drawing.

I have it in mind to show the majesty and presence of the train by means of it coming through a great cloud of billowing steam.