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Painting My Plums

Back at the beginning of lockdown, about 16 months ago now, I lost all interest in doing art but got obsessively into cooking. I took photos of what I was doing as I went along and blogged them. Then I found Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and got stuck into doingContinue reading “Painting My Plums”

Bit Of A Curate’s Egg

Here’s my latest from Ed Sumner’s Friday sessions at the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Normally Ed chooses an old master (or mistress) to copy but this week we did something different and painted from a photograph. I’ve got mixed feelings about it, it’s a bit of a curate’s egg, but I’m learningContinue reading “Bit Of A Curate’s Egg”

Cutting My Losses

Sometimes things just don’t work and you have to decide whether to carry on struggling or cut your losses and pack it in. That’s where I am with this copy of Claude Monet’s “Landscape on the Ile Saint Martin (1881) that I started with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook last week.Continue reading “Cutting My Losses”

Faking A Vincent

Finally finished faking Friday’s masterpiece, Sunset at Wheat Field by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1888. I started it with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Ed’s been running these sessions since lockdown started in March last year, to help people find a focus in these weird times. I’ve now completed overContinue reading “Faking A Vincent”

A Landscape Of Flesh

Here’s the latest “fake” that I’ve done with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. It’s a sunset by the Norvegian artist Edvard Munch. The original is weird, the landscape looks like it’s made from flesh, but it’s the sort of thing you’d expect from Munch. We used an interesting technique where theContinue reading “A Landscape Of Flesh”

And The Cat Helped …..

Painting van Gogh’s bedroom in under a minute – and the cat helped too. Husb films me when I’m faking on Fridays with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook and then edits several hours of painting into around a minute. It took about 6 hours really. A Chance To Own OneContinue reading “And The Cat Helped …..”

Finally Finished Vincent’s Bedroom

I finally finished faffing with van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom in Arles. I started it a few weeks ago on one of painter Ed Sumner’s Zoom tutorials. It’s a lot more complex than it looks. Vincent’s brushwork is multi-layered and his composition, although it looks simple, has some difficult distorted perspective. Of course IContinue reading “Finally Finished Vincent’s Bedroom”

Nearly Finished The Sky

I did a bit more work on the sky painting I started yesterday at Ed Sumner’s online “Cheese and Wine Painting Club“. I think I’ll have to do a bit more faffing; a couple of the smaller clouds are too dark and there’s more to be done on the reflections of the clouds in theContinue reading “Nearly Finished The Sky”

Halfway Through The Sky

I’m about half way through this cloud painting that I started in the Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook earlier today. Ed Sumner usually chooses a painting by an established historical artist but this week chose to work from a photograph to give us some intense training in painting clouds. I really likeContinue reading “Halfway Through The Sky”

Faffing With Vincent

I’m still faffing with this copy of Vincent van Gogh’s “Bedroom In Arles”, it’s a lot more complex than it looks at first, as are all his paintings. Although the composition is relatively simple, the complexity is in the layers and layers of paint piled thickly onto the surface of the canvas. I love itContinue reading “Faffing With Vincent”