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I have recently added myself to Facebook and Twitter to come into the 21st century !Ha Ha!

You can follow me on Twitter by going to http://www.twitter.com/kathylewisart.

you can find my business page on Facebook search under Kathy Lewis Art

Hope to see you there!

new for 2009!

Lots going on this year!

2 exhibitions running consecutively at the moment.

Furzey Gardens , Minstead , New Forest. England.

28th February - 27th March 2009

Red House Museum, Christchurch , Dorset.

7th March - 2 May 2009

Both are being run by the Christchurch arts Guild. For more details go to their website: http://www.christchurch-arts-guild.org/.

Will hopefully get some pictures and post them here for you to see.

The standard at the Red House is apparently extremely high this year and well worth a visit.

This is just one of my latest paintings which will be on display in the Red House for the duration. Unless it sells of course :)

Here is the finished item! The horses are all very different and the owner was delighted. As you can see, in this final painting all the finer detailling is added. Constantly checking back and forward from the different reference photographs that every fine detail of light, shadow, vein and hair is correct. Well thankfully that is another one done and I can look forward to the next.

I will be demonstrating a horse portrait and palette knife work at Fair Oak art group on 7th January . 7pm - 9pm. So come along if you can make it!


Then for January and February I have a healthy mix of dogs horses and foals to keep me busy.

All for me to say is come back soon and catch up on the progress on the easel and a Happy New Year to you all!

Here you can see the grey mare is much larger now, correct to her relation with the foal and brood mare! Thank goodness for the way I have learnt to work by only underpainting them all in first to ensure it looks right! As you can see I have along way to go on the grey , but have put more detail in with the mare and foal as I was pleased with the way they were going. All along thoughout my painting I am sending these to the owner and we are discussing things as we go along. I prefer to paint like this as it ensures the owner is happy with all the stages of the painting .

As I continued to work on the other two (foal and other mare) I began to realise that by just putting on the base colours was showing me that the scale of the grey mare was out! This entailed completely wiping her out and starting the drawing again. Basically she looked to small, looking at the mo like a pony and not a horse at all. In the next painting you will see how she is redone to a larger more acurate size!

As you can see the next stage basically comprises of getting the underpainting of the first mare on. Her chestnut colouring takes a few layers so I was keen to get that on. Also it helps to see if the background colour needs altering and the general composition begins to come to life and show up anything that needs tweeking!

Ok sorry, with sick children and christmas Ididnt get as far as blogging in December!

:(

I will however say we had a great Christmas eventually and it again seems over so quickly!

Back to work on Monday I am already planning out my next 2 months commissions list.

As promised however I will show the work in progress of one of my larger commissions for 2008.

It was received very well by the horses owners and hopefully some word of mouth recommendations will be coming of it. The best type of advertising ever I am sure you will agree.

Run up to Christmas!

Ok , sorry to mention the "C" word! But it is my busiest time of year and I have already had to turn down three people for christmas orders. Luckily 2 took gift vouchers and one is happy to wait til the new year. Thank you so much!

I am posting a work in progress to let you see how I work!

The work shown this time is a portrait for a lady I met at the Romsey show. It will be of her three horses. She wanted them all depicted together in a group portrait. The mare, the foal and the new horse (to take the pressure off the mare)!

I usually get my subjects drawn out first then once I am happy with them transfer them onto the canvas in correct positions.

I then get a rough background painted in. I like to do this as it gives me the feel of how the finished portrait will look.

The next picture I will post will show the next steps. Come back and see how its getting on later in the week!!