Paula Dunn

Jan 19, 2013

On my doorstep

We had a wonderful walk this morning up Baildon Moor.  I wanted to see if I could get some images for potential paintings as my Lister Mill series from five years ago was based on photos taken  up Baildon Moor on a very cold, icy but clear January day.  Today however was quite different with heav...

Jan 07, 2013

...and Burdall went to Skinningrove: an illustration of 7 days of painting

The last seven days have been spent painting from a photograph of Skinningrove by Ian Burdall.  It's not my usual sea-scape but when I saw Ian's image 6 months ago I was really taken by how powerful it was and he kindly let me use his image to work on. From the start I thought that the usual siz...

Dec 02, 2012

Procrastination....

A couple of paintings on the go which really really should have been finished by now... instead we've watched Mad Men, done some Christmas shopping and talked a lot about what we should be getting on with... Next weekend maybe??

Apr 15, 2012

9 out of 10 cats prefer....

Alfie helping me to take photos of new work..!  Actually think he was really just objecting to me using one of the many places in our garden that  he likes to sleep in.

Mar 29, 2012

Various stages of painting

Was inspired by artist Gillian Lee Smith's (http://gillianleesmith.wordpress.com/) blog on the process of painting and decided to have a go myself.  Not sure it works quite as well as Gillian's but here is my latest painting, completed this afternoon.  This is one of a series of 6 paintings of th...

Mar 25, 2012

Lovely day to take some photos

Great day for taking proper photos of new work.