
This painting was done with a palette knife on a textured ground. I finished it by applying soft pastel. In Barra there are so many lovely quaint cottages to be seen.

This painting was done with a palette knife on a textured ground. I finished it by applying soft pastel. In Barra there are so many lovely quaint cottages to be seen.

When looking at a piece of watercolour paper which had washes of watercolour and acrylic ink on it. I got inspiration to do this painting. Some of the washes show through on the final painting. I used goauche to bring out the figure and followed this with conte crayons and finally some soft pastel.

I had fun painting this little fellow. We saw the puffins in the spring on the Isle of May and there were lots waiting for their mates with bills full of sand eels.