On the warpath - 3.5' x 2.5'

What to say? Im a bit gobbed smacked with this one, it would have to be the best I have seen for a very long time, its absolutely one hundred percent brilliant, wild and free, I love it.

Woof.... fantastic painting. Your friend came back in one piece, I assume....

Dont do anything its great as it is!!fantastic!

Excellent. Fantastic light on their faces and the foreground grasses and those expressions...wow watch out !!

I saw this as a thumbnail and opened it expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. This is superb. Great movement and a real sense of speed from the manes and the flying dust. It looks finished to me but there again I haven't seen the photo. Not a plein air subject!

@Karleen thanks for being so kind, you can't imagine how encouraging a comment like that is! @ he he, yes, as I understand it, my mate Bruce got a really unique sighting from the land-rover, wow, you can see why I had to paint it forthwith! @ok Linda, I am also reluctant to do more now it's mostly dry anyway and I much much prefer wet-in-wet @thank you! @thanks Alan, I really wanted to keep things fluid and moving, and was prepared if necessary to sacrifice accuracy and outline - to the point of not pushing the distant hill up to the large tree trunk so the far horizon is kind of split...but I deperately didn't want to go down the road of "completing/drawing" little bits afterwards, as I have tended to do in the past. Could it be these bits left "incomplete" go a long way to give motion?

What a brilliant piece of work. I love the way each of the faces has a definitely different character, and I especially like this fit with the title. It made me think immediately of office life, and the law of the jungle. That is in addition to the obvious aesthetic which is super anyway. I recalled the expression on a colleagues face when he learned that someone had been promoted and somehow he looked exactly like the lead lion, for that reason alone I love love it ! Great job Andrew

Marvellous!

Fantastic painting. I have tried to find the size but could not. A lot of work on this canvas. Really great job !

thanks for your kind comments Lesley and Beatrice - you're right, I didn't put the size up, offhand I think it's about 3.5 foot wide by 2.5 foot high. I resized the original stretched canvas so ended up with something non-standard... will have to have a crack at framing it myself, professional framing seems SO expensive to me. I figure as we all are pretty good with our hands as artists, we should be able to turn them to framing too. Will report back on that one.

Beautiful work beautiful warm tone to it, stunning!

Like your elephant painting in your other gallery, this is excellent too. For me, I think this painting is finished. The focus is all in the foreground in the lions faces and the grass. Having lived my whole life in South Africa, I think this captures Africa extremely well, and the slightly hazy background, the trees and the distant hills are very typical just as depicted here. Very well done, such action, such aggression!

Hi Andrew I thought I had posted a comment but anyway. Yes I do use pthalo blue in several shades / tones plus various shades of turquoise. The underwater rocks are put in first and smudged with a finger then the water is very lightly stroked over the top, remembering that the water at the front is transparent as you look down and getting denser as it moves away

Hi Andrew I thought I had posted a comment but anyway. Yes I do use pthalo blue in several shades / tones plus various shades of turquoise. The underwater rocks are put in first and smudged with a finger then the water is very lightly stroked over the top, remembering that the water at the front is transparent as you look down and getting denser as it moves away. Your two wildlife works are superb and would look good on anyones wall

Just seen your lions Andrew for the first time as i put your name in the 'find' box to see if you had posted any steam trains. This is absolutely stunning! Lions can look pretty bland with their neutral colouring but you have made yours come alive. I love the choice of the shade of blue for the sky, which compliments them beautifully. Any plans to post any steam trains in the near fututre? Your siggestion for some of us to get together one day to paint them is an excellent one. Jx

what a brilliant painting.