And Friday rolls around again, so quickly, and it’s the the lunchtime Cheese and Wine Painting Club. I set myself some lockdown challenges early in the pandemic and one of them was to improve my painting skills. I found this great painting session on Facebook, where the artist Ed Sumner guides us in painting from a work by a great artist.
Today it’s David Hockney’s “Wheatfield Near Fridaythorpe”. I love Hockney’s work and this was a joy to do. I still need to spend another hour or two, adding details and refining the composition. I’m learning so much from doing these each week – this is the 16th! I’m using Liquitex heavy body acrylics, mostly transparent ones, with a couple of opaque and plenty of white.
A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks
I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modern twist by combining them with images of rubbish – old fruit nets, bubble wrap and plastic – highlighting the problem of human pollution and how it affects wildlife.
To b
uy my work on the Swansea Print Workshop site please click the image to the left.
In this one, I combined the image of the bird with snippets of text of things my Nana used to say. She used to take me to Swansea Museum a lot when I was small and I could hear her voice in the back of my head as I was sitting and drawing the birds and bugs.
20 percent of the cost of each screenprint sold goes to support Swansea Print Workshop, which receives no public funding.
