Ireland voted and found its favorite painting

After a five-week, extensively publicised campaign during which people were invited to vote for one of 10 shortlisted works, Burton’s came through convincingly with some 22 per cent of votes cast.   The painting is an unusually large, lustrous watercolour from 1864 and derives from an exceptionally blood-spattered Danish ballad with echoes of the Whitney …

Winter watercolor – a beautiful illustration of a pretty girl

Pen, ink, watercolor. Winter inspired ink drawing for the cold days that have dominated our December. This drawing is based on one of my student assistants. It is a relatively quick portrait sketch. The fun part is working with a model that has large expressive-eyes. The addition of a “fur” neck-warmer seemed to balance out …