This shows the first stage of the painting, with colours droppped into the main background colour having also added drops of clear water and salt.
I almost abandoned the painting after the first stage, as the colours appeared too vivid and dominant. Once the picture was dry however the colours were lighter and painting in the richer Anemone colours made the background recede even further. Steve Cook keeps telling me this is the case and this painting has proved him right yet again!!
We enjoyed a wonderful day at Fountains Abbey earlier this year. I took many photo's, this picture being an interpretation from one of them. It's been ages in the painting and I am disappointed in some aspects of it. At least I have learnt a lot whilst painting it. It's displayed to prove that, at last, it is finished.
World War 2 favourite....The Spitfire.
Model tanks.
Radio controlled medium sized model tank.
A real one, and what a cloud of dust that kicked up!!
This enormous vehicle, nick-named 'Little Chicken', did just one mile to the gallon, avoid following that up the motorway!!
The lorry is an AEC Matador.
This is Maria, the daughter of Michalis and Voula, two very special friends who live in Crete. Maria is delighted to have had this little dog for her birthday, she calls her 'Boubou'.
