Rose Cottage-finished

Rose Cottage
Acrylic, oil paint on fine linen canvas
Lorna Marrison

Rose Cottage is now finished. House portraits are always exciting because of the implicit need to include a narrative. Helen has asked for her companion pets to be waiting for her by the gate. So Pythius has leapt up on the gate and there is Harvey to the left and the charming Buster on the right but unbeknownst to them there is a little black kitten waiting to be discovered. Can you find him? 

Leaving on a Witney Bus

Leaving on a Witney Bus
Pencil, coloured in Photoshop. 
Lorna Marrison

I have to confess that I was hearing John Denver singing "I'm leaving on a jet plane" in my head whilst drawing this picture.  If "Eynsham is the centre of the world" then leaving on the bus will be out. It will be one of my 'OUT" paintings.

Morris man 'OUT' of context in the Co-op.

Morris man in Co-op
Pencil, coloured in Photoshop
Lorna Marrison

The 'OUT' here is that he is not dancing on the streets with the team but lined up on his own at the tills in the Co-op. Do I hear a collective groan out there? If this was a larger painting I would have put the other people in the queue with him but I wanted to get more of the store in the picture. I have developed the pencil sketch in Photoshop using colour selectively too emphasize his isolation. Next step is to paint it on the canvas.