Isabel Proffit Art

So it’s that time of year where we start to think about what we want from the next year. I’ve certainly had plenty of thoughts in the last month about where I want things to go. My plans for my artwork in 2017 were fairly simple, I’d been struggling to get back into focussing on artwork so I wanted to give myself a few goals, and I’m happy to say that for the most part I succeeded in them.  I’d…

Last night I finished this watercolour fox piece. It was painted in my daler rowney mixed media sketchbook with Sakura Koi watercolours. The reference photo came from pixabay. Prints are available of this on society6    I was going for a more serious look on this fox, but it turned out cuter than intended, which I’m actually rather happy with.  This is the first painting or drawing of a fox I’ve…

I don’t often paint cats, something I should really change. But I painted this cute little one in Gouache. This was painted using Winsor & Newton Gouache in a Daler Rowney A4 Mixed media Sketchbook Here’s a speed paint of it.

I’ve done speed painting videos for both.

These were both painted in a Daler Rowney mixed media A4 Sketchbook and painted using Winsor & Newton Gouache.

I really enjoyed working on these pieces, so I hope you like them.

I’m trying to upload two videos a week to my youtube channel so please remember to subscribe to keep up to date.

I also did a video for all my inktober pictures, super cringey, but hopefully not too bad. I’m still rather new to all this 🙂

Remember to follow me on Instagram or facebook to keep up with my latest pictures. @Isabel_proffit on Instagram and @isabelproffitart on facebook.

Painting Gerald our Cayuga Drake

To join my last picture of our crested drake, I’ve now painted Gerald, our Cayuga Drake.  So you know.. he doesn’t feel left out.  I take a lot of photos of him, so no doubt I’ll end up painting him again soon. This was painted with winsor & newton gouache on daler rowney mixed media paper. Prints can be brought on society6   

We’ve only recently got this pair and haven’t even named them yet, but he’s already been painted. I’ve been organised and already uploaded the speed paint video for this and prints are available at Fine art America. I’ll get round to uploading my Peacock painting on there shortly. Those that follow me on instagram will have seen that painting.

He was painted using winsor and newton gouache, I’m becoming quite a fan on this stuff and was completed on A4 Daler Rowney mixed media paper. I like how this paper handles things pretty well without warping too much. It’s also the paper that I’m using for my inktober pictures and it’s really nice not having to worry about the ink bleeding through into the page below.

I’ve just started trying to do a fan art friday thing alongside inktober currently. Here’s today’s, as shared on instagram,  a painting of Jemima Puddle Duck. I even did a little speed painting video for this. It was painted with Winsor and Newton Gouache in a Daler Rowney mixed media sketchbook.

Here’s days 1 to 13, I’m sticking with the prompts this year, so that’s been an extra challenge

Here are some of the results I’ve had so far

 My latest picture is of a Eurasian Eagle-Owl, birds are one of my favourite things to paint and I’m pretty happy with how this has turned out. The reference photo came from pixabay, the paints used were Liquitex basics acrylic paints and surface painted on was a Fredrix medium textured canvas pad. I really like how well the paints work for building up layers and doing glazes. Every section of…

I completed all of these paintings only using one brush, it’s a number 10 SAA all rounder brush that I got for free after buying some other things from SAA  So far I am totally in love with this brush for watercolours, it’s big enough for decent washes and yet also works well for detail.

The reference photo for both the Chicken and the Robin came from Pixabay. The cupcakes were sort of freestyled whilst also looking at various cupcake pictures on pixabay… safe to say it made me want cakes after that. 🙂

Prints are available of all of these on Fine art america

Robin –> https://fineartamerica.com/featured/summer-time-robin-isabel-proffit.html

Chicken –> https://fineartamerica.com/featured/chicken-isabel-proffit.html

Cupcakes –> https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cupcakes-isabel-proffit.html 

A little blog post about my most recent painting. One of the birds from @HawkeyeFalconryUK :)

Not my most realistic piece, but I like it! This painting was done from one of my own reference photos taken at the JC Farm open day, which was held during the open farm sunday event in the UK. This Gyr Falcon was one of my favourite birds from the Hawkeye Falconry UK birds that they had there.  If you’d like to know more about the birds, or just look at pretty pictures of birds of prey, their…

My latest completed painting is this Heron, he was painted on a Fredrix canvas pad with Liquitex basics acrylics. It was painted from a reference photo that I took at London Zoo. There are lots of Herons at London zoo and I saw many in different enclosures, this particular one was taken whilst he was in with the Otters, he was much easier to take a decent shot of than the otters who didn’t want…

Well apparently I did.  

I usually shy away from acrylics as  they tend to never go right for me. However I recently decided to try and make them work after getting some Liquitex basics acrylic paints.

As always, there’s plenty of room for improvement, but I do quite like this picture. Just need to get a frame for it now I think and put it somewhere.

As I took the reference photo myself, I’m giving anyone that wants to try and paint this permission to do so. If you do, please post it to my facebook page   as seeing what other people create is half the fun of this kind of community.

Materials Used:

Liquitex basics acrylic paint

Fredrix medium texture 9 x 12 canvas pad

Reference photo – taken by me 🙂

I like to doodle frogs sometimes and saw a photo of a little frog statue on pixabay and decided to doodle from that. Of course the end result kind of took on a life of its own, but it’s still kind of cute! I used Lestraset and my grey C-3 Copic ciao markers on this, and of course my staedtler pigment liners for the outline. Prints available…