Tigerprint Love and Marriage Prize

The best prize ever, arrived from Tigerprint today, in fact i think i squealed as i opened it!  A box of 100 Pantone postcards!!  Totally amazing!

Runner Up Prize!

I've done it again!  I'm runner up in the Tigerprint Competition!  This time for my Love and Marriage pattern!  Here is my little star pattern and Tigerprint's lovely comments!

Paintbrushes & Palette Knives

This is the first stage of my new oil painting!  I have decided to use a mix of paintbrushes and palette knifes as there are so many different textures to this one!  I am really liking the profile i am getting with the knives as i love the texture of thick paint on canvas, it really adds dimension and extra interest.

Love and Marriage

I have been busy working over the weekend to get my designs ready for the Tigerprint Competition "Love and Marriage".  Here are the designs i have just submitted!

It's a Symphony of Fireworks!

Let me introduce you to "Symphony"!  Using a mix of scumbling, brush and palette knife work my oil painting is finally complete.

Palette Knife Fun

I decided that the only way to get those fine firework lines in was to ditch the paintbrushes and get the palette knife out, and it is working beautifully!  I've got some nice textures in there now and a lovely mix of colour.  The only thing which is missing now is the bright light which i'll put in when the paint is dry!

A bit more fizz!

My fireworks have come to life now that i've managed to work into them a bit more today.  Getting the foreground in has really helped too.