28/09/2008
Flower Power
It is only one of two or three pictures that I painted without people, birds or animals.
I initially had part of a chair with a cat sitting on it at the bottom left hand corner but eventually took it out as it improved the composition of the painting.
Ideally I like to keep an unfinished paining at home so that I can look at it now and then and invariably notice something that needs improving.
Here I took out the cat and chair added a flower and put some yellowy orange colour on the leaves, all down towards the end of 2008.
This painting and many other prints and originals are available from the -
Mccrea Gallery
298 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH14 2AS
Tel: 07846105487
E Mail: lindsay.mccrea@yahoo.co.uk
Bird Watching
It occurred to me most when traveling by car from Edinburgh on the A1, I saw a small island in the sea so why not try it here.

Two island and the cloudy sky gave much better composition, so the main elements of the painting were settled.
This painting and many other prints and originals are available from the -
Mccrea Gallery
298 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH14 2AS
Tel: 07846105487
E Mail: lindsay.mccrea@yahoo.co.uk
24/09/2008
Sea Lions
This is one of my favorite paintings, because it seems so simple and does not contain any decorative matter.
It was not easy for me to restrict myself to this simplicity and I had some prblems with the lions expressions.
I had to "doodle" with paint in their faces, trying this and that, for example, with mouth close to the nose or distant, long or short, lips bent or straight and similarly with the eyes and the shape of their heads.
This painting and many other prints and originals are available from the -
Mccrea Gallery
298 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH14 2AS
Tel: 07846105487
E Mail: lindsay.mccrea@yahoo.co.uk