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| K Fisher (2014) No More Missus Nice Girl [Oil on Canvas] |
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| K Fisher (2014) I am Listening [Oil on Canvas] |
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| K Fisher (2014) Here I am [Oil on Canvas] |
Thursday, April 17, 2014
A Squirrel on London Road
One morning as I was walking to work, a squirrel was scampering about trying to find a conker in the London Road Gardens. Well I think it was a conker. Having grown up in Australia makes identifying flora and fauna in Scotland a bit difficult for me. I am trying, but these things take time. Anyway, needless to say the squirrel was my muse for the next couple of months or so. Not as easy to paint as a bird. I struggled with how to paint the fur and to give it a 3D edge. Either Noel Paton's technical ability, as in the furry animal skin in the painting of his wife with their son on her lap, or Allan Ramsay's ability to capture the essence of something in a few strokes, as in the painting of the ermine trimmed robes of King George III and Queen Charlotte, would have sufficed. Alas, time and skill seemed to have eluded me. Well, fur success or not, here is my squirrel in conversation.
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2 comments:
I really like the top painting. That looks like a very determined bird---a bird on a mission. And I thought you did a good job on that squirrel---the fur looks pretty good.
Thanks Mark, you're a pal :-)
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