Ruth's World

Here's one I've recently finished for my baby dancer!   My daughter loves to dance and she chose the subject and colours for this painting herself. Pointe Shoes by Ruth Kelly It's a little 6" x 6" x 1.5" on box canvas, for her bedroom wall and I plan to paint another matching one for her but I want to get cracking on one I've been itching to get to for some time first.  All will be revealed soon!

Here's a sneak preview of a painting I'm working on at the moment.  It's a painting of King John's Castle and is my interpretation of an early ninteenth century colour printed illustration by William H.Bartlett, originally a steel engraving which would have been published uncoloured.  Bartlett's engraved views were widely copied by artists but no signed oil painting of this picture, by his hand, is known. I'm painting it for my mother-in-law who loves the print version that she has but couldn't frame it successfully because someone folded it and ruined it!!    So here's the beginning's of what will hopefully become a painting that my mother-in-law will love just as much as the print.  Don't worry Nan, this isn't the finished version, it's just the underpainting! WATCH THIS SPACE for the finished painting!