lion studies

Here are a couple of colour studies that I did this week, I will keep doing them until I feel that I know enough about lions to make a decent painting, I have something ambitious in mind, a fair chance that it will come to nothing much.
These are both based on photographs by Dereck or Beverly Joubert.

chariot crash

This is a picture painted a lot of years ago for a book about the ancient Olympic games, it was a very rough acrylic on photocopy paper but I just cant leave things alone and I have dusted it up a bit with photoshop, its not entirely successful. I did a whole bunch of chariot race drawings I have always wanted to get around to painting them up, but time, there is never enough.

colour roughs

A couple of quick colour studies just for practice. The landscape is based on a photograph by Art Wolfe, one of my favourite photographers he takes me to places that I am unlikely to visit.
The bear is also based on a photograph and I was attracted to the lighting, edge lighting is lovely to work with, and bears are just fun shapes to paint.

Polar Bear

This is an old colour rough originally acrylic on photocopy paper ,I used to do that a lot work on cheap paper, mostly because my painting was so bad that it was wastefull to use good stuff. but this was one that I liked from those days, so I kept it and smoothed out a few bumps in photoshop.

life drawing

These are a couple of drawings I did this week at life group, the coloured one was a watercolour that went pear shaped, I attempted a rescue job with photoshop later at home, this is an improvement, it really was rubbish.
The black and white was supposed to be a watercolour but I ran out of time, maybe just as well.