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Artist, illustrator, donkey wrangler. www.samcannonart.co.uk Watercolours, colour pencils. https://linktr.ee/samcannonart
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A close up and the full picture. I'm terrified posting this but had to give something new a go.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Needs a click to see it all. I painted this in the summer holidays with a room full of children and the imminent loss of my sanity. 'Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.' Marcel Proust.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I repainted this for someone last year. Made a point with this one of including more cowslips and stitchwort. Along with the Robin, all favourites of mine. If you know anyone who might need to hear these words (or enjoy these flowers), do please share. I'd be so grateful.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

You may well need to click on this image to see it in full. But I hope you do as you should enjoying the huge old moon I painted at the top. This is painted on Italian watercolour paper. You can't using masking fluid, you can't rub out and you can layer too much or it'll disintegrate. I love it.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Foxes - beautiful and always a joy to paint (or in the case of the right hand picture, draw in colour pencils).

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

3 of my long, thin 'sun' series of paintings. Painted on Italian hand made paper which is - I confess - a bit of a nightmare to paint on. Very unforgiving and disintegrates if you try to correct your drawing with a rubber. But I loved how they turned out.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

A beautiful grey horse, fast asleep amongst the silver birch trees, with a wee red fox to watch over him. This is a card and a print and you can see all my work on www.samcannonart.co.uk If you know any foolish people who love foxes, birds, trees, flowers, poetry and lettering, they'll love it.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; continued....

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Some dachshund love today. These pictures were all based on the beautiful photographs of Christine Cummings, the late ceramics artist. Such fun to draw. Such beautiful dogs.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest;' John Keats A message of love this morning. Be it about your human or your animal loves.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Flower cards. If you have the urge to send someone a message of love, or a burst of bright colours, I have heaps of cards that will fit the bill. I'm working on painting summer leaves on trees today. It's really helping on such a bloody cold day!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Words by Walt Whitman. Long tails, cherry blossom and the promise of warmth, love and dear friends. I have this picture as a card too 😊

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Beautiful words. samcannonart.co.uk/wp-content/u... to see all my cards.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Nuthatches Stunning birds who I'm lucky enough to see here in the garden all the time. Once I seemed to have the hungriest one ever. I thought he'll struggle to fly if he eats much more. So I stood and waited and it was obvious there were lots coming. What an absolute gift.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My new cat painting. I am 100% team dog so the world of cats has eluded me. It's easy enough to paint a cat. But it's harder to capture the essence of a cat (if that makes sense). I tried to make this chap regal and set off the beautiful contrast in colours. I really hope you like it.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. Mark Twain. And thoughts of Spring and and warmer days ahead. With the most beautiful of birds.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Let's take our hearts for a walk in the woods and listen to the magic whispers of old trees. Author unknown I don't normally paint on paper this big and in the end this watercolour took two full weeks of painting. A lot of that filled with indecision. I love the Swifts flying amongst the leaves.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Two foxes, reflected in the water. I love the foxes in this picture so much and would really like to make a little story up for them. An adventure. Watercolours on watercolour paper.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

St Valentine's day is only 10 days away. And this card remains a firm favourite each year. 'You are my sun, my moon and all of my stars'. e e cummings You can find all of my cards - and I've put the ones suitable for Valentine's at the top, here: www.samcannonart.co.uk/greetings-cards

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

On the off chance that you may be in a relationship with a human who enjoys messages of love, I have some unique cards and tiny painted pebbles. If not, I cannot recommend enough sharing your life with animals. So much love and just the best for cuddles.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

A little step may be the beginning of a great journey. I try to remember this when I'm trying something new. I may not get the outcome I want. But I always hope it's a step towards where I want to go.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well” Julian of Norwich Painted in watercolours with Schmincke Aqua Bronze for the gold lettering. With inclusive imperfections in my work, a sure sign that it's done by hand and not a computer program.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. It was true when he said it and it's just as true now. A colour pencil drawing from many years ago.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment