We are TV stars!!!

Well, 'Born to be Wild' was finally on BBC4 on 10th July 2008. It was over a year ago that we filmed it. The production company did a good job and overall it was a pretty good programme.

I have found a review in the Independant which was favourable, including the phrase - 'The attention to detail, especially in Phil Wilkins's beautiful paintings of insects, and ...'

At the top of this post are some of the bee paintings I was working on when they were filming.

Plates!!

Over the Christmas period, I tried my hand at a different type of painting - ceramics. Whilst the children painted boxes and ornaments, I did this Jay on a plate. It seems to have come out not too bad, though some things did not work quite as well as I planned them.

The border is not very good and some of the background came out rather strange.

It is not the first plate I have done. Below is a Tiger Beetle I did a few years ago. Both of them show I have a lot to learn before I am happy with this technique!