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Monkey Monkey Monkey!
Baby Snub-Nosed Golden Monkey. Watrecolour in progress. As you can see I am making use of a wonderful colour pigment here, Quinacridone gold. Winsor and newton artists’ watercolour, as you can tell it...
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Snow Monkey.
You may Have seen these little chaps on television wildlife documentaries, these are the monkey’s that lounge around in hot tubs all day long! Mind you, the snow monkey lives in areas where snow covers...
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Rooster in Various Mythologies
Here is the finished watercolour of The Rooster. I mentioned in my earlier post about how the rooster featured in greek mythology. The rooster features in many diffent cultures writtings and beliefs....
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Is it Lucky to See a Black Cat?
This watercolour in progress is of a balck cat at night in a japanese garden. Represented as good and bad, there are hundreds of myths and stoires surrounding black cats. Pirates of the 19th Century...
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It’s all about your reputation – The Fox
Historical the fox has gained a reputation as being cunning, wily and sly. In fact Field-Marshell Rommel was known as the “Desert Fox”. Foxes are not seen as evil in the same way as the wolf, they are...
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Hazardous Occupation? Don’t lay your eyes on a Hare.
I have already produced a hare screen print (see here) but thought it was about time i did a watercolour. People seem to love them. This one is legging it from something! Probably a pack of dogs! In...
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It’s safer to be a garden cat than a ships cat, unless your lucky.
This watercolour of a cat in a japanese garden is finished , you can see it in progreess on my earlier post here. So how did your moggy become your moggy? Well, tiddles, fluffy, Derick, Steven or...
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Cute Golden Monkey
Very cute don’t you think? I discovered how Disney make their animals so cute while painting this painting, It’s all in the eyes! You can see this painting in progression my earlier post. here The...
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Sailor with Tattoos – Screen Print
This is a three colour screen print This is an Edition of 36 printed on japanese Atsukuchi paper, which is only 57gsm. Light but very strong. Print size 485mm x 320mm. As you may have noticed if you...
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Bold as Brass this Little Chap – Robin
Robins are lovely, don’t you think? They are familiar to many people simply because they are happy living in close proximity to human beings. For anyone who has recently dug their flower beds over, no...
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A Word from the Wise – Little Owl
Aptly named, the litte Owl. Guess what? The little owl is small! The Little Owl is not native to Great Britain. It was introduced in 1842 by Thomas Powys and is now naturalised there. As any of you...
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Do you look like the King?
Well, The The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a smaller version of the king Charles spaniel. I wrongly thought that the breed was given its name because of its resemblance to Charles II, if you have...
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In the Top Drawer
I have just finished my fist trade show at Top drawer. It went better than I could have ever expected. I have lots of orders to fulfull and have had to initiate another large print run. Great news. My...
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Parliament of Owls – Repeating Pattern
This is another of my repeating pattern designs, repeats are a bit of a brain twister to design, but they are lovely! This one is of owls. Owl’s are typically solitary. However in this design I have a...
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Animal Pictures up at Domali’s Cafe in Crystal Palace
Two Owls, a black cat and an cat licking it's paw are four of the ten creatures up on dispaly at Domalis cafe in Crystal Palce South East London. The Prints are an open edtion,They are 24 x 18 Inches....
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A Representation of Speed – Swallows Repeating Pattern
The Swallow has long been associated with Folklore. European folklore has a long list of good and bad luck stories, from bringing death if one were to land on your shoulder to bringing good fortune if...
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Are you a Hedgehog or a Fox?
This painting continues with my theme of animals with their natural habitat depicted within them. In 1953 philosopher Isaiah Berlin published an essay called,”The Hedgehog and the Fox” in it he expands...
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The Hedgehog’s Dilemma
The finished painting of a hegdehog, and below the same painting in progress. The hedgehog’s dilemma is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It goes like this, An Array of hedgehogs are...
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Chaos Reigns!
The Butterfly effect. It goes like this, a butterfly flaps it’s wings in say, Canada, the a couple of weeks later in south east Asia there is a hurricane. The Butterfly effect is also known as Chaos...
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Ships Cat
In 1975 the British Royal Navy banned cats on its ships and put an end to a tradition that had been in place for hundreds of years. For example in Louis XIV’s French Navy in the seventeenth and early...
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