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Pieta Jesus after Michelangelo
Finally completed The Greatest Sacrifice. Work in progress Highlights have been added to his hair. Once this dries in 2 weeks time, blue glazes are going to go over the highlights. Nearly finished now. Darker glazes have been added which have made Mary's blue more vivid. When these glazes dry, light blue highlights will be added to his hair on the top left to reflect the glow from Mary, then it should be nearing completion. I am trying to capture the moment when the sky darkened and life left him. This painting is going to the priest of St. Joseph's church in Adlington Lancashire when he retires. The reason that this painting is dedicated to a priest, is that in his eyes I saw a glimmer of what it is to sacrifice all that you have for something you utterly believe in. For my sister, her wedding was one of the most important times of her life. She wanted it to be perfect. On the day, disaster struck and the regist...
Landscape with Alien ship re-visited
Original Oil Painting on Oil Paper 20x16 inches. I re-visited this painting as I didn't like the original at all...not a single bit. I asked my sister to help point out where I'd gone wrong. She said to let it go as the painting simply wasn't my style. She then decided it would look better with a spaceship and stuck one on. Then added a tiny cow caught in a death ray. Now I love it 😂
Golden Bhudda
Golden Buddha Yin & Yang Original Oil Painting on canvas paper 9x6.5 inches . I wanted Buddha's face to be yin & yang, male & female, happy and sad. I remember when I was a small child singing the end theme song from Monkey and it used to make me cry as I loved it so much 😍 I also loved the gentleness and fragility of Buddhist monk Xuanzing. Strangely, I've always wanted to paint Buddha since then. Each man desires to reach Gandhara, his very own utopia. In the striving and the seeking soul, man can see Gandhara.