Mhorr gazelle

Most kind of you Hilary, thank you. I’ve just been taking a quick look through your portfolio – with about 700 oustanding pictures – and must take more time to go through them. You say you paint so I’d love to see some of your work.

And so are you Pat.

Most kind of you David. I’ve been practising for 74 years and still have a lot to learn – so I’d better stick around.

Thank you kindly Wildwings.

Much of that joy is sharing it with others and getting such compliments as yours Walt.

Thanks Colin,
I got a lot of animal CDs from the curator of Ohio Zoo last year and this is a compulation of 3 photos. As a thank you I sent him this painting. I was chuffed when he said how pleasantly surprised and pleased he was to get it.

Thanks Linda. You are always so encouraging and dependable I reckon I can use you as a guide to see if my uploads are getting as far as Australia in furture.

Incidently, have you ever used W & N Griffin oil paint? I ask because I found it didn’t smell, dried in a few hours and was very easy and forgiving. It can be used quite thinly, almost like watercolour, and you can even use other mediums over it once dry.

Good on yer Linda! Yes, that is Windor and Newton paint. It’s technically an oil modified Alkid – or so it says on the tube – which I guess means it is a combination of acrylic of oil, but they classify it as oil and it works the same. I’ve introduced it of quite a few friends and they have become sold on it. Well worth trying a couple of tubes or perhaps picking up one of W & Ns leaflets on it.

I’ve been practising. Many thanks Hagen.

You lift the spirits of an old fella with your kind comments Yimusjane. Thank you.

Barbara Keith (the animal artist) put me in touch with a US Zoo curator who kindly sent me hundreds of photos on CD of animals. I sent him this painting taken from a couple of his shots as a thank you.

No more so than your own work which is always delightful.