Welcome to my May newsletter!
Here is my latest painting, titled Moonrise, featuring Painted Dogs, also known as African wild dogs.
 

Moonrise                                       acrylic 11x14" by Alison Nicholls

To me it seems perfectly natural to use pinks, purples and blues to paint these fascinating and most social of predators. Why? Because these colors evoke evening, dusk and on this occasion, even moonlight.

Moonrise was painted using only 2 colors, manganese blue and quinacridone magenta. Both are beautiful in their own right but when layered one on top of the other, as I've done here, they also create wonderful atmospheric purples. I could probably paint for months on end using just these 2 colors, but variety is the spice of life so I'll probably pick something different next time. When did I last paint dogs in green, I wonder..?

Moonrise is priced at US$560 and 30% of the sale price will be donated to the Painted Dog Research Trust in Zimbabwe. It is also available as a limited edition giclée, 11x14" on watercolor paper, priced at $120, with a 20% donation to PDRT. Please contact me for details.

Here are some more new limited edition giclées (Sun Spots, The Herd and Lion). See the full images and pricing details here.

To learn more about giclées and limited editions, read my blog post:  Prints, Reproductions, Giclées - A Confusion Of Options.