Thinking of Buying a Print or Original – in USD $? Big Savings NOW!

Well the pound is WEAK and the U S Dollar is strong and it only just occurred to me how much my U.S. collectors would now save buying prints or especially originals (commissions) from me in this current climate.
 
At the moment prices displayed on my site show UK pounds Sterling, and then an estimate of [...]

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Wildlife Art Studies for Collectors

I thoroughly enjoyed creating my latest Cape Buffalo studies, and from the emails I have recieved, lots of my visitors enjoyed them too.
When my gorilla painting has dried I have plans to do quite a few more studies, they could be anything at the moment, but elephants and Hippo are currently foremost in my mind [...]

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Learning to Paint – What do the usual books miss out?

Thanks to all the replies from a previous post about my future e-books and instructions, there were some excellent ideas.
But to make the books even better, I thought we could approach the subject from a different angle – What do the current range of books etc leave out – what’s missing???
I think I have mentioned [...]

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Gorilla Oil Painting – 3/4 finished!

I’ve continued to add more detail around the canvas – bringing the gorilla painting that bit closer to completion. The image shows the mid fur layers – when this is dry I will start to add the final detail s to the fur – plus I have then got to detail the face and work [...]

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Want to Learn to Oil Paint?

Well… most of you know that I have sold my Learrn to Paint Wildlife in Oils Ebook / CD for a few years now  - and due to it’s success and the fact that I love to teach, I’m going to do a whole new series of e-books, but here’s the crunch!
For me to make [...]

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Gorilla Art – Starting the Detail Stage (wildlife art)

Now the underpainting has fully dried I have started to begin the detail stage, once the details are all in I will begin adjusting tones and hues with glazes. Appologies for the less than perfect photo below.

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Cape Buffalo Paintings (studies) Finished

Just put the final touches to my Cape Buffalo studies, hope you like them. They are for sale, either as a whole – ie all three paintings on one board, or individually. Anyone interested just drop me an email for more details.

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Another Cape Buffalo Study – Mean Guy!

I’ve continued to paint another Cape Buffalo study (see more on my site – Art Studies)whilst the gorilla painting is drying, this one I loved – it looks real mean. Although most people think Cape Buffalo are grey they really are anything but, when you really look close. I will add two more buffalo under [...]

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Gorilla Fine Art – Underpainting Completed

Well as the heading says the underpainting has now been completed – now the real fun begins – the details and bringing this buy guy to life You can see more step by steps of the gorilla painting on my wildlife art site

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Gorilla – Starting Oil Painting

Hi everyone – happy new year!
As you can see from the latest update I have now started to go over the acrylic underpainting with oil paints. This is only the blocking in stage, so as usual I will go over everything with a few layers of oils, increasing the details and adjusting colours with each [...]

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