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27th Oct.
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Two Reindeer Feeding Black Chalk and Gouache
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22nd October
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No I’m not Santa Claus. These reindeer know all the old jokes as well, so it’s best just to see them as they are - one of nature’s most beautiful creatures on a Scottish hillside.
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It’s pretty funny when they come up like this and just stand still though...
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Hello.
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A larger study worked up from on the spot sketches and photos taken at the time
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Intended as studies for later paintings, these first drawings are detailed but I intend to let them loosen up progressively as I learn more about the forms, stance movement and anatomy of the creatures.
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I think there’s good potential here.
Anyone who wants to see the Reindeer - be at the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre for 11 o’clock.
See their website http://www.reindeer-company. demon.co.uk/index.html
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Reindeers - pencil sketch
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I saw you 10 minutes ago. You were here with your mum.
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A few more sketches
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These are the first stages of two 10x12ins. sky studies (unfinished)
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Update 25th September 2007
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Outdoor Oil Study “Dawn at Tentsmuir” 10x8ins Oil on canvas
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Click image to enlarge
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“To Glenisla” Outdoor cloud study 10x8ins. Oil on Canvas
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Finished.
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Update 19th Sept
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Getting in to work early is a bonus. This was the office this morning. If someone could fix the heating it would be appreciated. It seems to go off at night.
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Half way through. The sun’s well up now and the light has completely changed. I’m running on memory now as the sea already belongs to another painting.
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Completed in the studio from an outdoor sketch from Castle Green, Broughty Ferry
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There wasn’t much to do to this sketch indoors. I just had to “bend” some of the colours a bit and sort out a few of the shapes. (More below)
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Unfinished cloud study
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Unthinned oil paint applied directly to acrylic gesso primed canvas without preliminary drawing.
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The canvas rests on a board slightly larger than itself. This means you don’t paint your legs.
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