The first paragraph of this section warns against the ‘narrow focus’ and ‘head down’ approach to the final units of the degree and challenges us to be more daring, to make leaps and fresh decisions about what our painting could … Continue reading Legacy 3.2 – Part One Consolidate and Experiment
November 11th 2023. I applied for this unit last week and expect to receive the materials in early January. In the meantime, I want to dissect the title because one word is bothering me – Audience. To me, an audience … Continue reading Stage3, Unit 2: Site, Audience, Context
1st November. For two years now, I’ve made paintings for the porch or the front window in contribution to our lane’s Advent window collaboration. Twenty six displays, one being unveiled each night at 6.30pm until Christmas Eve. I made a … Continue reading Christmas 2023
Also suddenly finding a use for the piece of MDF that’s been hanging around since the Great Insulation of last Spring because I liked the shape. It has the look of an arched window and I fantasised about painting a … Continue reading Keeping up momentum
I absolutely love the colours, which now appear to be seriously enhanced, and the drama of this image and so I’ve embarked on a painting using it as a reference. For some very obvious reasons, doing it justice will not … Continue reading Landscape
This has been an odd period so it’s only right it ends on some more oddities. Birds and blots. The blots came about due to leaving some experimental ink on a sketchbook without anticipating its lack of absorbency. The video … Continue reading Ending unit 3.1
Images: many of these are Artivive-enabled, which means there is a layer of augmented reality that can be accessed by scanning the image through the Artitive app. *CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy Continue reading Assessment 3.1 Practice and Research
Again, using my own photos, I’m undertaking the not inconsiderable challenge of making snow scenes that are both relatable and nowhere near a christmas Robin. This is the final painting for this series – winter scenes using my own photos for reference. I found the smallest canvases the most difficult and the two larger sizes more accommodating. I seem to have moved some way away from the stained glass windows of that first set of landscapes, although I like to think this is because I’ve modified my approach to suit the subject matter. My aim is to try not to … Continue reading Small canvases – winter
Sometimes you just need to reconnect with the basics so here we have Birds. These are in effect still life drawings as all of them are metal ornaments/sculptures so I’m not trying to target moving objects. Critically though, they’re not … Continue reading Small canvases – birds
These are all based on my own photographs. 24th August. I looked at the Beck painting and all I could see was twee whimsy, so it’s had a slap of primer and a reboot. This has been an interesting exercise … Continue reading Small canvases – water
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