In honour of the Lionsgate activity I have painted this lion in oils on a 40×30 cm canvas. Keep the lion in your heart aware and hear him roar when you need to release and return to your peace.

oil painting
In honour of the Lionsgate activity I have painted this lion in oils on a 40×30 cm canvas. Keep the lion in your heart aware and hear him roar when you need to release and return to your peace.

I was gifted some new oil paint – orange yellow and sap green – and a lot of it! I am very grateful for the kindness of that generous person and thought I would use these colours as a basis for this picture. Initially I did think that it was unlikely it would work out very well with such diverse colours but I have been pleasantly surprised how the different mixes of the colours made totally different tones. Enough said, this is the end result, and I do hope you like it!

Black canvasses are new to me and I am still very much experimenting with them. Initially I found them really inspiring but over time I am thinking maybe they are not as great an idea as I thought! I shall still use them, I think, if I can get hold of them again!
These two pictures are both on 40 x 40 cm canvas and painted in oils. Let me know what you think!

