No one to blame but myself; or maybe tutor Brian Eccleshall who’s going all out on tiny paintings of UFOs and religious iconography. He’s good (obviously) but luckily my palette preferences are somewhat different, albeit inclusive of a bit of gold acrylic.
I chose mostly to re-do my own paintings going back as far as 1967 or maybe even earlier. Then, they would have been made in poster paint, and I also had a rather Beardsley thing going on with black ink. To say they look nothing like the originals is something of an understatement. These are the raw photos; they could do with an iron.
Brace yourselves, I’ve gone small. These are quick acrylic paintings on A6 cartridge, treading in the footsteps of the Master that is @bryaneccleshall. I’m using my own work going back in some cases to the 1960s. 12 more to come but not tonight Josephine. They need a good iron.Eye Test.Serpent Buckle, first of three. These shapes go back to visiting the Sutton Hoo exhibition which must have been on the road at the time. We went from school and this, the great gold buckle, is the item that stuck in my mind. Here’s a link https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5100/the-sutton-hoo-great-gold-buckle/Serpent Buckle #2.Serpent Buckle #3. I’ve used different brushes and different dilutions of medium on these paintings, and while this one looks rather like a tape worm infestation, I like the depth I’m seeing in it. Probably a spleen in there somewhere.Still Life 2. Most likely the original comes from around 1968 because it’s a collage and it’s mounted on card, something we didn’t do at school. At this point, I was flailing around trying to make sense of 1968 art college Brighton in the context of smog-bound Bradford which hadn’t shaken off the 1950s. Eve’s Apple. I think the original was called Creation. We had a one-word art teacher who would just come into the room, make a proclamation, and then vanish. Circa 1967, it was a bit heavy-duty for my parents!Still Life. I’ve rubbed vaseline into parts of the paper to create an invisibly influential layer. I think the original brief was to paint fruit in a box and as it’s a collage using tissue paper, it’s probably from around 1968, i.e. art college, not school.Abstract. Based on what was probably a lino print from around 1968.Seaside. Totally contemporary with no historical reference. Lines and circles. Self-evident really but I was watching the effects of fluid on ink and encouraging spontaneous blending. I’m generally quite heavy handed with paint so leaving it so dilute and letting it make its own way around the more structured pen marks is probably more illuminating than it should be!Tornado. A6 teeny tiny acrylic painting.Wine glass. This made itself and if it were an actual object, it would be falling over long before the contents had its user doing the same. My technique, I’m beginning to discover, is dirty scrubby old brushes. This one has been cat-prey on several occasions.
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