UKCPS Exhibition

I have been really tardy in posting on my blog. I have just returned from a wonderful holiday to Denver Colorado for my niece's wedding, and I am still trying to catch up. I will be posting some wonderful photos of the Rockies soon. 

In the meantime I am really happy to announce my 'King of the Reef' won The Creativity International Award for Best Birds/Insects/Fish award. The standard was amazing this year and I can see I will need to pull out all the stops for next year. The imaginative subjects were amazing, and the technical abilities stunning. The exhibition runs until Saturday 1st so if you are in London this week please pop in and see what can be produced with coloured pencils.

You can see some of the award winners here.

Never enough time!

Sorry there is no update to my leopard, but I seem to be running around doing a hundred and one things other than drawing at the moment....like getting pictures ready to take to various exhibitions. Four to Clevedon Art Club open annual exhibition, which runs from Saturday 13th to 27th August. Three to The Illminster Arts Centre for the Backbone 2 Exhibition which runs from August 22nd to August 26th.

I was very pleased to have all 5 of my entries into the UK Coloured Pencil Society accepted. This exhibition is a biggie and for the first time will be held in London at The Methodist Central Hall Westminster, to run from 19th September to 1st October, well worth a visit to see just what amazing work can be done with coloured pencils.

You can see my entries below.

Summers Faded Beauty - pure coloured pencil

King of the Reef - pure coloured pencil

Laying up - Coloured Pencil and watercolour

Time Out - Coloured pencil and watercolour

Look! Over there! - Coloured pencil and watercolour

Leopard in Pastel - update

Just a small amount of work managed this weekend. Way too much stuff to do.

Leopard in Pastel

I haven't thought of a title for this chap yet, my head has not been in the right place for titles this week.

I liked the pose and the fact that he had his mouth open. I am not entirely sure I have the eye quite right, will need to go back to it later.

Size 16" x 12"

Support Clairefontein Pastelmat in maize

Medium: various makes of pastel pencils and Ashby soft pastel sticks.

Looking Back - finished

Here he is all done! All in all I am happy with how he has turned out.

Looking Back #2 - update

Spent some time building up the depth and detail in the stripes, and of course I couldn't resist doing the eye. Amazing how that brings everything to life!

Looking Back #2

 Here is a small update. Working on bringing up the colours in the shadows and deepening the darks for a bit of oooomph.

 This is my second attempt at this zebra, the first one, done on velour with pastels, is just too dark and gloomy for my taste so thought I would try again, this time with coloured pencils. I have used maize Pastelmat and Polychromo pencils. The background has been dissolved with low odour solvent.

The scan has come out a little yellower that the original, maybe I can adjust that next time. 

Size is about 16" x 12"