London art college competition - finalists

I am very thrilled to find out, that my Koala is a finalist in the London Art college Student of the Year competition.
You can see the finalists here

There are very different styles and pictures included, as the college offers a variaty of different on-line courses. See more here

I have recently attended the Pet portrait diploma course. Eager always to increese my skills and knowledge, I think this will be a great course.

The secret ingrediens - book

Today I recieved the cook-book, that I have mentioned in this list: published.

The book "The secret ingredient" is made by idea of Dot Tadman who did a great job. It is a charity cookbook to raise funds for the UK organisation Frinds of Anchor.
Beside the delicate recipes are artwork by multiple artists included.

My contribution is the cp-painting of a highland cow as shown above. You can see on the back of the book, that I am in very fine company.

I hope and believe the book will raise lots of funds for the good cause.

Award prize recieved

wau... got my award prize from UKCPS in the mail today.

Wonderful set of Panpastels with blending tools, plus pastelmat paperpad... Neither are available in Denmark and I look forward to try out the materials ;)
I'll write about my experiences when I get around to it.

Newsletter no 7

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UKCPS 10th international exhibition

yeeeppeeee, just found out that "Tender Moment" was Highly commended at UKCPs 10th annual exhibition: Exaclair/PanPastel Award - Highly Commended.
Here's a link.

I am so honered and proud about it :)

... and yet another whale has swimmed out of my imagination ... Sweet young whale I - details on the abstracts blog

Whale with young I - abstractive

A new abstractive animalpainting. More details on my abstractive blog.

Whale I - abstract painting

Now that the motif is an animal: New abstractive painting: Whale I - see my abstractive blog for more info

Madames cat

I haven't drawn or painted that many cats, so about time I did.

This cat attracted me with its relaxed pose, lying comfortably in the sun. Cats love to rest in a sunny spot!

The painting is in mixed media. Mostly colored pencils, but also watercolor, gouache, acrylic and different watersoluble pens was in use.

Dog lovers

...did you visit my Doggyshop fanpage on facebook ?

Doggy shop

Visit my Doggyshop

Course

I am the kind of person, always trying to improve my artskills - and in this case; painting skills.

So I have enrolled in a course, and are working on excercises. And I think the teacher should be the first to see :) Quite time consuming and I have to work 3 in a row, so will be some time before they appear here.

I do work on something different too, and will show that in time... it's a cat. I haven't done so many cats. Therefor the image of this post is cut from an earlier catpainting: Flying mouse - playfull kitten.

New website

well, it is not long ago since I announced that I cancelled my website/homepage.

I now have a new one:

http://theplanet.dk/lenedaugaard/

This website is a bit more integrated with my blog, so I'll be able to maintain it in less time.

Tundra Kingdom I

Here is my finished painting.
Approx. 30x42 cm on acrylic paper.

It has been a very good lesson, and experience with the acrylic paint.

The colors is a bit off, as the yellows are less bright and the rocks more subdued in RL. But as my scan was even worse, this digishot is the best I can show..