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‘Wolf Peak’ 18″ x 24″ Oil Painting on Canvas
Wolves reference photo by Wendy Salisbury<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I completed this painting at the end of 2015 and it was then the centre piece for my debut exhibition in May 2016. This was and is still to date the largest painting I have ever done. This painting took me ages to complete for a few reasons. The first being the downside of oils which is the drying time. As I work in many many layers which have to be completely dry before you add the next this does dramatically extend the process from start to finish. The other reason was I was very much new to painting scenic backgrounds so this piece was a lot of trial and error in some instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was elated that this piece sold within the first hour of my exhibition launch evening. My exhibition launch was a 2 hour evening slot at my local gallery and I was overwhelmed to see that all of my pieces including some graphite drawings but 3 smaller pieces had all sold. I won this gallery slot in a competition which I entered and won after one of my paintings got the most votes.
It took a good couple of years to build up my wildlife portfolio which was mainly because I was doing my paintings alongside my full time job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Learning Process <\/strong>
Looking back 4 years on from when I completed this wolf painting I realise how much I have grown as an artist. I have been doing my artwork full time for the last 2 years and its been the best decision I ever made.

One big change I would make to this piece if I were to do it again (which I wouldn’t do as I never paint or draw the same thing twice) is how I tackle the background. I have since added a airbrush set up to my must tools. This would have created a much softer background making the wolves seem that much more 3D adding more dimension to the piece. I’d add a lot more texture to the foreground mud area. I would have therefore opted to do this piece in acrylic paints instead of oils. Massively speeding up the process between layers. I only added acrylics to my materials earlier this year and love them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Wolf Peak’ professionally framed by my local framer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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