Thea

A recent painting, (for my sister's birthday) a much loved Cairn Terrier called Thea.

At the moment I am working on several smaller paintings of eggs & keys, (randomly)! I shall post my progress in the next few days...

Bit Late...

I haven't updated this in so long, oops.

Lots has happened, 'Quails Eggs' was selected to the Royal Society of Oil Painters annual exhibition in London which was very exciting...

I also had a painting selected for The Society of Equestrian Artists annual exhibition in Newmarket, here is the painting taking shape....(it's called Shadow)

Finished...

Quails Eggs on Saatchi :)

My Quails Eggs have been selected by Saatchi online's chief curator..... Oooh!

http://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/Painting-Drawing-Photography/New-This-Week-7-11-2016/153961/145824/view

Quails Eggs

 I bought some quails eggs a while back on special offer, put them in the larder and promptly forgot them.

Once found the least I could do was immortalise them, but all those spots...tricky!

So when the basic eggs were dry I masked them off.

 

Then put the canvas on the floor and splattered them with very thinned paint.

So they looked like this...

Very pleased with them, they are painted on clear primed linen so no background other than the shadows.

Wind Ups!!

I love to browse ebay for interesting things, these two forlorn looking wind up cars with their eternal passengers made me want to buy them and paint them...so I did.

The finished painting, 'Wind Ups' Oil on Canvas, 100x50cms.

Padlock1

Here's another, just finished this one, Padlock1, Oil on canvas...

Ta da!

Moth

I found this Moth on a spiders web outside my kitchen window, it was so beautiful I decided to paint it, according to a reliable source it is, (or was) a Feathered Gothic...

It took a while...

Finished...

Apples & Keys

Been so bad at updating recently, did these two before Christmas!!

Apple, Oil on Linen 40x40cm...

 Finished ...

 And yet another key, (I like keys!)

Finito...

Keys!

I did these about a month ago...

I like the idea that they are pretty useless, (random keys without locks) but are also kind of beautiful.

Saddle

Decided to paint a saddle......so I did!

Bit of detail.....

Stag

Another still life from earlier in the year....Stag.

Detail...

Green Bottles

I've been very lax in posting this year!

Will catch up during the next week or so on what I have been doing, starting with....

 Green Bottles

4 down, 7 to go...

6 down...

 Finished

Some detail...

Another Still life.....                                                    

Johnny

Completely forgot to post this! a commission I completed just before Christmas, Oil on linen...

Basic sketch:

Background...

Underpainting....

Detail of eye and head collar:

 Finished painting...

Decided to do some still life, more to follow...

Mouse

Thought I ought to post something now Christmas is over.

Here is Mouse, a lovely pony I painted in Pastels for a Christmas present.

The basics plus eye!

 

 

On go the tones...

 

 

The finished piece:

 

 



 

Chrismas Card

A sneaky peek of my new Christmas Card with the kissing donkeys:

If you would like one sent to you just email me your address to: contact@catherinehenchie.co.uk

Sky and The Christmas Donkeys

Finished 'Sky', (AKA Woody) Oil on Linen yesterday.

I also managed to finished one of my Christmas Kissing Donkeys...one to go.

Christmas Kissing Donkeys and a Saddle!

I decided to do a Christmas card for all my lovely customers and collectors, two donkeys kissing under the mistletoe, (I'll add that later) in pastels....rough sketch:

Getting there:

Got the basics down, detail next...

Another new project is this saddle, it's oil on linen. I have left the linen on show as I think it will really suit the subject, here's the underpainting...