A rainbow Cow painting triptych

Today at the studio I hope to finish this colourful guy. One of the things that I do as part of my process, as well as creating the big shapes first, is that I work intuitively on the first layers. I don’t try and worry too much about the final result. This then gives me something to respond to in the following sessions. So I have added all the colours that I wanted to add and the wild and woolly hair. Today I will work back into the paintings and edit, tidying up some of the edges and leaving others, hopefully ending up with the final cow that I envision. Watch this space, I’ll post another photo of the final piece.

I enjoy painting on three panels, the finished effect is cool and contemporary and you get different looks depending on whether you leave a gap when you hang the paintings. I’m currently feeling very glad that I have rented this size of a studio, I remember during the pandemic, when I was painting at home and trying to create a big piece like this in the spare room - not easy!

Commissioning a Custom Highland Cow Painting on Canvas

i am currently working on two very exciting commissioned projects. Each features a large scale highland cow portrait or double portrait in beautiful rich eyecatching colours. These are going to be really great focal points in the spaces that they are being designed for.

Each of the paintings requires a specially built bespoke canvas as they are custom sized pieces.

I offer international shipping for my canvases, and one of these new paintings will be travelling to Switzerland once completed.

I have created sketches and mockups on PhotoShop to plan each piece before I begin the actual painting process. I expect the painting stage to take two-to four weeks including drying time between layers.

Here are a couple of highland cow commissioned canvases that I had the enormous pleaseure of working on last year.. These are companion pieces for the same client.