Sat.Dec 21, 2013 - Fri.Dec 27, 2013

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'Captain Seadog' Is Ship-Shape

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

I finished my latest animal painting last week, 'Captain Seadog'. He's now fully rigged and ready to set sail and aim cannon against ' Captain Ratbeard '. Captain Seadog Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm I found this piece challenging because there is not a lot of fussy detail and lots of open spaces in the composition. I kept going back to N.C Wyeth's treasure island paintings as I worked trying to grasp his wonderful sense of design and colour.

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Two New Sketches

Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

I have to wait for these drawings to be approved but hopefully I'll get the go-ahead. The first I like to call 'Retreat From The Windmills' and it is loosely based on the exploits of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza who are represented as an old wiry lion and a plucky meerkat. The second rough shows a father mouse reading a bedtime story, I can envisage the warm glow of the oil lamp and the big patchwork blanket lending a very soft feel to this painting.