Every encounter with a bird or animal is magical, but imagine coming face to face with a majestic deer in the wild! What a breathtaking, exhilarating, special experience it is! A connection with a wild animal, however necessarily fleeting, is one of life’s great moments.
A new stag!
Artist who paints animals
As an artist who paints animals and birds almost every day, I like to see them looking somewhat contented!
One of the visitors at the festival last week told me that all my painted animals look happy. It was the most perfect comment because that's exactly what I work towards! I don't know whether this new guy looks cheerful or slightly smug. Perhaps there is a hidden hand back there giving him a bum scratch.
Painting session - Woodland Stag
This week I have changed the way that I work slightly to accommodate a couple of restrictions, and it has turned out to be in my favour. I spent yesterday painting this gentleman. I have used the same reference photo in a previous painting several years ago, and it was interesting for me, to return and see the differences in my own approach.