This is another part of my garden, or another angle to be more precise. And I’m using a 3″ brush, something I’ve never done before. The support is A1 card, pre-used. Above is the image I was drawing on. Everything … Continue reading Under the Dome (project 8)
Project 9 (subject to change) 22nd August. The up-garden angled landscape. My aim here is to paint the ‘back’ of the painting, this time going from dark to light as if the image were in such full, bright sunlight that … Continue reading Bottom to top/Exposure
Primary reference photo Adjusted reference photo (PhotoDirector) This is A1 black card prepped with black acrylic gesso. This will give me the dead-black background I need for the lit foliage, and the white areas are the base for colour underlays … Continue reading Gardenscape #1
Rough sketch and a substrate of (quite appalling) acrylic gesso (cheap but should have been cheaper). A1 card with acrylics, some of it an undercoat of luminous pouring paint which will be mostly covered by darker acrylics and hopefully wink … Continue reading Gardenscape
Another interim ticking-over piece on the principle that the best thing to do when you think you can’t keep going is to keep going. Usually getting stuck happens when I’m ‘between themes’; one has just come to an end and … Continue reading Slipstream #4 – Silent predator
At but not necessarily of 3.2. In a khaki trunk under my bed is a collection of dolls my grandparents brought back from holidays in various parts of Europe. They’re all in national dress and a little faded from being on a shelf somewhere in the house as I was growing up. Yesterday, I took one out and made a pencil drawing on a re-primed canvas. At this point, I have the shape and some patterns but I’m so inexperienced with human-like figures that I also need a story before I can ‘bring her to life’ without invoking Chucky. I … Continue reading Slipstream work
Based on my own photo, the first of these are an attempt to paint thin and light. It didn’t last long. Where some people have this along with ‘smooth and barely present’, I’m happiest with trowelling it on and working … Continue reading 3.2 Project 7: Frog Fall
Prior to my artist’s talk* yesterday, I’d spent more time talking with people about cats than most of the rest of the work; proof if proof were necessary, that cats override the highest of high ideals. I began this series … Continue reading Un-CAT-egorised
Post hoc comment, June 17th: Looking back over my work, I’ve settled on this painting to take to the group tutorial on July 10th along with the photographic overlay, the prose label, and the video. Bad Sun Rising is based … Continue reading 3.2 Project 4 Bad Sun Rising
Made for a live presentation in Second Life on 13th June 2024. Artivive will be updating its platform on the 14th of July. This is their first upgrade since 2017 and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be significant. SCH 2024 Continue reading 3.2 A5 How to Artivive #1- take me to the bridge
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