JERSEY GIRL

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This painting was done from a Photograph that I took while we were in Devon, in the South of England. I risked getting stung with nettles and thistles to get this picture. I didn't really need to go to those lengths as this beautiful Jersey cow wandered closer to us to see what we were doing.

I painted it directly onto flat canvas which I had taped to a drawing board and left sufficiently wide margins so that it could be stretched onto stretcher bars. This saves much messing about trying to paint around the sides of a ready stretched canvas. I like my finished image to wrap around the entire surface.

A Place In the Country 12"x12" oil on canvas

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This painting recently won best oil painting in a local art club exhibition.
I used a dark background to paint on since this seems to give a greater intensity of colour. I drew the image onto the canvas using white coloured pencil then painted upto the line,leaving a dark outline. It was quite tricky because I didn't want to end up with something that looked like a stained glass window.