REAL ART - Sheila Vaughan

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  Oil on canvas 24" x 24"  Just finished this today. I know it is kind of lyrical and romantic but this is just how it happened to...

  Acrylic gouache on paper approx 18" x 15"

  Acrylic gouache, acrylic and crayon on paper 18" x 15" Like many artists I love playing around with different media on paper. Us...

  Acrylic gouache on paper c. 18 x 15 inches Today I wanted to work in a simpler, more direct way so I picked up my acrylic gouache paints a...

  Hand carved in tulip wood 8" high with surface acrylic colour This took a lifetime to do - just ages. Anyone who works permanently in...

  Clay with surface colour about 8" high There is an essential sadness about our relationship with domesticated animals in particular t...

 Oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas 24" x 24"

  Wood carving about 11" high with surface acrylic paint This one was agonising to do, the wood felt so hard although it was sold to me...

  Wood carving 5" high finished with acrylic paint I have been wanting to do some wood carving for a while and finally got round to it....

  Clay, plaster and wire - figure about 11" high This is a close up detail of a plaster and clay sculpture I finished recently. The sto...

  If you want to see a back view go to my Instagram site (see recent link post on this blog).  You'll find a link there also to get back...

  Clay, plaster and acrylic  11" high This went through many revisions.  It wanted to be discovered but it was kind of hidden. Even now...

I have been dragged kicking and screaming into the world of social media but love blog land so I'm not going to quit here so easily. The...

  Plaster and acrylic on a canvas panel  25" x 18" Did this one a few years ago but I think it never made it onto the blog. Someti...

  Clay with surface colour, about 10" high Got a few ideas for a title but not decided yet.. Has been polished with Lithofin, a wax pol...

  Clay with surface colour about 10" high

  Clay with surface colour approx 11" high Still enjoying the clay work and also painting in between. With both clay and oil painting t...

  I decided to give a few of the figures a paint makeover  (like you do..) and some of them have sadly endured a cremation.  I have also bee...

  Air dry clay with surface colour approx 11" high I have started putting some images onto Instagram as well as here so I have chance t...