When I'd started painting I hadn't decided what genre I was going to specialise in.So what I did is make a list of every subject I was interested in, and went through it.
Early on I had decided that wildlife art was probably the one I would settle on, and produced my first wildlife painting of a Tawny owl I had photographed at a falconry, against some dramatic clouds that were outside my window.
This time as a painting support I was trying canvas board, which is a fine grade of cotton fabric on a rigid card board, which was good to paint on as it was wasn't too rough.
Being an avid wildlife lover I thought photographing wildlife to paint would be ideal, so I tried to add to my photograph portfolio by going to safari parks to photograph big cats and exotic wildlife. However they were always either sleeping or pacing around the fence, which wasn't going to make a very exciting painting!
On this painting I found that fur and feathers take quite some time and fiddle to paint which I realised I would find too tedious to do all the time, and that's if I found enough good subjects to paint. So I finally decided that although I love wildlife, it wasn't going to be wildlife art I would specialise in.
'Hunters awakening' 30x40cm Oil on canvas board.
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