I’ve been carrying on copying this vase of sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh today. It’s not easy. I keep checking back with the original and it’s clear that Vincent used many layers of thick paint applied in streaks and dashes with a brush. The lower sunflowers look like he was dapping the paint on with a palette knife as well, to raise the surface of the paint. It’s nearly there, just a bit more work to do.
I’m working from one of Ed Sumner’s videos from the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook.
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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.
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Inspired by drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artefacts 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.
20 percent of the cost of each screenprint sold goes to support Swansea Print Workshop, which receives no public funding.
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I have just posted some detail photos over at mu post ‘Sunflowers come to Canberra’
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You are spot on with your assessment of the technique. I took some closeups of the one currently on show in Canberra and you can see how thick the paint is.
Thanks, it’s good to know. It certainly improved the look of it once I started dapping (I have no idea what the technical term is) 😀
That seems a perfectly good term to me. Dapping it will be.😊
Not a bad effort at all 😀👏