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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

Acrylic painting of Home to Roost
Heading Home
Home to Roost
Original £820
Prints available
Go to online wildlife art shop
Acrylic painting 'The Lookout'
The Lookout
Original £390
Buy online "Watching & Waiting" painting

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'Sunlight and Shadow' Acrylic painting of Woodpigeons Acrylic painting of Little Owl Acrylic painting of Ringed Plover Acrylic painting 'Heading Home'

Sunlight & Shadow
 
Prints available

Buy online - 'Sunlight & Shadow original and prints

Little Owl II

 

Ringed Plover
Original £580

 
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Heading Home Sold
  
Prints available

Buy online Heading Home print

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.

Acrylic painting of Grey Wagtail
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Grey Wagtail Sold
Acrylic painting: Sika Encounter
Sika Encounter
Original £1,900
Go to online wildlife art shop
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Acrylic painting of Golden-ringed Dragonfly Acrylic painting of Squacco heron Acrylic painting of Spotted Flycatcher Acrylic painting of Gull-billed tern

Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Original £770

Go to online wildlife art shop >> Dragonfly

Squacco Heron
Original £740

Go to online wildlife art shop >> Heron

Spotted Flycatcher
Original £370

Go to online wildlife art shop >> Spotted Flycatcher

Gull-billed Tern
Original £360
Cards available
Go to online wildlife art shop >> Tern


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/

Acrylic painting of Little Crake
Gold in the setting sun
Little Crake Sold
Acrylic painting of "Flitting Through"
Flitting Through Sold
Prints available
buy online Flitting Through print
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Acrylic painting of Slimbridge Smew Acrylic painting of "Vineyard sculptures" Acrylic painting of Purple Gallinule Acrylic painting of Red Kite
Slimbridge Smew Sold
Cards available

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Vineyard sculptures Sold Purple Gallinule
Original £680

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Red Kite
Original £780
Prints available

Buy online Red Kite print

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