Jackie Garner - Wildlife Artist - Gallery

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Wildlife art gallery - acrylics page

The majority of my work involves painting with acrylics. Acrylics are my first choice for my paintings when I’m in the studio, though I tend to use watercolours and pencil for sketching outdoors as the equipment is much more portable.

Next exhibitions:
2012 Festival of Birds,
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust,
Slimbridge
4-5 Feb 2012

London Wild Bird Watch,
WWT London Wetland Centre
20-22 April 2012


Home to Roost Original £820 Prints available

The Lookout Original £390	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Sunlight & Shadow Prints available	Little Owl II	Ringed Plover Original £580	Heading Home Prints available
When should you paint with acrylics? Acrylics are versatile, vibrant and robust, and as they are water-based there are no smelly solvents involved. The quick drying time and permanence of acrylics means I can paint over the underlying layers to modify areas of my paintings. I prefer Liquitex Heavy Body paints as they are thick enough to give texture but can be thinned down for glazes. I use synthetic, square-edged brushes for most of my acrylic paintings, though I’m starting to use filbert-shaped brushes to give more variety of brush marks. My choice of colours varies from one painting to another, but I usually keep to a limited palette of six or seven colours.

Grey Wagtail

Sika Encounter Original £1,900	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Golden-ringed Dragonfly Original £770	Squacco Heron Original £740	Spotted Flycatcher Original £370	Gull-billed Tern Original £360 Cards available
I often start an acrylic painting in a really abstract way, by covering a primed board with paint using painting knife, sponge, fingers and (just occasionally) brushes. Then I add in the species and continually refine the image until I’m happy with it. I much prefer this “evolution” method as there’s more creative decision making involved, more freedom and hopefully a more interesting result. Several paintings in my wildlife art gallery used this method – Squacco Heron, Flitting Through, Steamer Duck, Little Crake, Sika Encounter, Sunlight and Shadow – mostly the paintings that explore the species’ relationship with their habitat. You can see how a wildlife painting evolves on my blog post http://garnerwildlifeart.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/sunlight-and-shadow/

Little Crake

Flitting Through Prints available	Hold your mouse over the small pictures for a larger version

Slimbridge Smew Cards available	Vineyard sculptures	Purple Gallinule Original £680	Red Kite Original £780 Prints available

When should you paint with acrylics?