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Faking The Ultimate Kitsch

Finished faking the Green Lady, portrait of Monica Pon-su-san by Vladimir Tretchikoff

I took part in a Zoom art session recently which is inspired by Swansea’s industrial heritage. Copper Crucibles is a two part course, making small clay crucibles in moulds on one day and then, when lockdown restrictions are lifted and we can get out and about, we’ll be doing a raku firing for part 2.Continue reading “Copper Crucibles Part 1”

Timelapse Sunflowers

Here’s a short timelapse film of the van Gogh painting of Sunflowers I recently copied. It’s got a really noisy soundtrack so watch out! I wish I could paint it this fast in real life – he was a very complex painter and the works take a long time to do. A Chance ToContinue reading “Timelapse Sunflowers”

Wasn’t Too Sure …..

I wasn’t sure about faking this one today at Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook, because it’s a painting I don’t particularly like. It’s Vincent van Gogh’s “Street Scene in Montmartre” and it sold at auction this week for over £11 million. He painted it in 1887, part of a series ofContinue reading “Wasn’t Too Sure …..”

Finished Faking Sunflowers

I finally finished faking van Gogh’s sunflowers. I’ve been faffing around with it off and on for a few weeks now. The strange sunflowers at the bottom of the vase took a lot of work and I was stumped about how to do them at first, but then I worked out how to dapple paintContinue reading “Finished Faking Sunflowers”

Green Lady’s Yellow Frock

I’ve nearly finished the copy of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s “Green Lady” that I started a couple of weeks ago. I think her head is just about done now, so today I did a lot of work on the yoke of her dress. It’s an elaborate embroidered silky fabric and I’ve never painted anything like this before.Continue reading “Green Lady’s Yellow Frock”

The Making Of A Pandemic Painting

Here’s a short video, under 5 minutes, showing how I made this family Zoom painting, “18 people, 2 Dogs and a Cat”, from floundering at the beginning of lockdown in March 2020, through 9 months of faking famous paintings, to my first large scale original painting reflecting our family’s response to the pandemic. It’s subtitledContinue reading “The Making Of A Pandemic Painting”

Timelapse Turner

I recently finished faking a painting by JMW Turner, “Storm at Sea” and Husb made a timelapse video of me doing it. Here it is if you fancy seeing how it developed. I’ve been faking more or less every Friday throughout the pandemic lockdown, almost a year now, with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine PaintingContinue reading “Timelapse Turner”

Here Come The Clouds

Here’s my latest fake, a cloud study by the British painter John Constable done yesterday at Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Constable made about 50 oil sketches of clouds in 1821 – 1822 and many of his paintings feature spectacular skies. This has stronger colours than Constable’s and I might giveContinue reading “Here Come The Clouds”

Green Cheese

She’s green and this is possibly one of the cheesiest paintings of the 20th century (1952). She’s The Green Lady (also Chinese Girl) by the Russian painter Vladimir Tretchikoff. I did a Zoom tutorial this evening with Ed Sumner, who runs the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook on Fridays. It’s a late oneContinue reading “Green Cheese”