The Underlying Barbie-ness

I started this fake Cézanne last Friday at the lunchtime Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. It’s my 17th fake – one of the lockdown challenges I set myself was to improve my painting skills and I love studying the work of other artists.

I began with a pink background, which was a bit of a shock at first but was soon muted by layers of colour which took on the intense warmth of the underlying Barbie-ness. Another couple of hours should see it finished. I’m using Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint onto a primed canvas from Wilkinsons. This particular canvas was recycled with a layer of gesso after I rejected the previous week’s fake 😀

Next up at the Cheese and Wine Painting Club is Monet’s “Cliffs At Etretat”. Come and join in, it’s fun and you get to learn a lot. Suitable for beginners and children.

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 buy my work on the Swansea Print Workshop site please click the image to the left and to see the complete image.

In this one, I combined snippets of a bird and discarded plastic with the image of a bug, part of the Museum’s fascinating vintage collection.

20 percent of the cost of each screenprint sold goes to support Swansea Print Workshop, which receives no public funding.

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