Category Archives: Greyhounds

… Off to Lunch ….. at the Cafe Rouge …..

….. here’s Eddie the Retired Greyhound, hoping his favourite dinner is on the menu today … chicken innards !! … although, it looks like another scallywag has got there first ! …..

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… Sheffield ?? … then it MUST be …. Greyhounds !! ….

….. Happy New Year everyone ! ….. and I realised for this New Year I need to go back to my painting roots – greyhounds & whippets 🙂 ……  ….. this is a semi-real scene from Sharrow Vale Road (work in progress) … Continue reading

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….. Bragazzi’s …..

….. and featuring Cracker, the Italian Greyhound (again) ….. ….. Winsor & Newton, and Holbein watercolours on Daler-Rowney Aquafine 300 gsm

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….. The Other Half ….. (Whippet in Purple Coat, Part 2)…..

….. the finished painting, “Cowlishaw Corner”, which will be on display in the Winter Gardens from Monday, 13 May …………. 

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….. a Whippet in Purple …..

….. seen here, in a work in progress ….. (and the whippet was really wearing the purple coat) ….. ….. hopefully, weather permiting (which it hasn’t been so far this year)….. I will be outside Gilberts tomorrow, painting, and with … Continue reading

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? How Do I Know When a Painting is Finished ?…………

…..people often ask me.  Well, in the case of Nether Edge 360….. ….. when a Greyhound walked past !   Almost complete, the painting just needed a little “something special”, when ….. …..at the cross-roads this morning, waiting for the traffic lights to change, in the … Continue reading

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Red Mist……………………………..

…………the latest Patricia Cornwell book is superb. Not only more pacily written (IMHO) than the last few, but Brilliantly, features Retired Greyhounds !!  …………being a slow reader, I’m still on page 42, but the idea of prison inmates “rescuing”, looking after and … Continue reading

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