NEC Birmingham

Very exciting. My painting has been packed off and on it's way to the NEC Birmingham, England.

My painting "Racing Stripes" has been chosen to be exhibited at the annual Simply the Best leisure painter magaqine exhibition. It will run from the 5th - 8th of November 2009. It runs along side the amazing Art Materials Live event show held at the NEC.

Visitors can vote for the peoples winner and shortlisted entrants will be shown in the Leisure Painter Magazine in the New Year!!!! Fingers crossed and lets hope it sells too :D

Work, work work....

Ok , back to work. Things are piling up for the christmas list and I have, in between dealing with kids, horse, dog and puppies done a commission since i last updated on here!!

This is a lovely grey arab cross called Koodoo!!
His owner has seen and approved this one ... so its on with the next.

The next one is of a collie cross , wont be able to blog the work in progress as its a present for the customers sister. I will post all the christmas portraits in the new year.

Gem's puppies!

Ahhhhhhhh.... seven little babies! :D Just realised i havnt blogged lately. puppies are a full time job. Especially when there are 7 !!

Anyway, they are all doing extremely well and all reserved! Will be going to their new homes on the the weekend of 28th /29th of Nov.

GEM

For those of you who know me on facebook or twitter Kathylewisart. You will know that we are waiting for puppies to arrive!!
We have practically got homes for all of them with a list of interested people. Its lovely when people telephone and even want to come and meet Gem. Some people want a boy, some want a girl and we still dont know how many she will even have :D
We are keeping a bitch and very much looking forward to the process of raising another puppy.
Not to mention how excited the children are!!!

People who have taken the time to come and see Gem's totally gorgeous and soppy temperament have been delighted by being able to feel puppies kicking inside that increasingly enormous stomach!!

Needless to say .. I will post photographs as soon as she has them.

She has had a significant drop in body temperature this morning so that should indicate they should be here in the next 24 hours !!!

3 horses continued

Have been very busy working on this one and also getting ready for my dog to have her pups!!

So just a short update today with some more work in progress. In these last 2 photographs, you can see I am basically getting the main colours in situ and working on the tones.
Once I am happy with this stage, I will do this for all 3 horses and then get to the final fiddly stage.

During the basic horse underpaintings, I also re worked the background. It is essential that the background is completely finished before I get to the final stages of completing the horses. If I dont do this it will be impossible to work around the fine hairs on the edges and keep the consistancy of the paint true.
Till next time !!!