And another bit of fakery! This time it’s van Gogh’s “Fishing Boats on the Beach (at Saint Marie)” from 1888. I’m about halfway through it. I love copying van Gogh, I’ve always loved his work, since I was a schoolkid, and it is joyous as well as instructive to do these paintings. I started itContinue reading “Faking van Gogh”
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Copying, Creativity, Cheese And Wine
I’m carrying on faking this Monet, “Cliffs At Grainval”, but it still needs more work. Not a lot, just a bit more faffing should do it. I started it on Friday with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. He’s been running it weekly since lockdown began over a year ago and it’sContinue reading “Copying, Creativity, Cheese And Wine”
Friday Fakery
It’s Friday again so I joined in with the weekly Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook at lunchtime. It’s run by painter Ed Sumner who has kept it going every week since lockdown started. Today’s fake is “Cliff At Grainval”, a painting from 1882 by Claude Monet. I’m about half way through. A ChanceContinue reading “Friday Fakery”
Spic And Span
Here’s another quick little scribble I did in my sketchbook while I was wandering around the city centre the other day. There were orderly queues everywhere, luckily it was warm and sunny, and there was this council employee power washing chewing gum off the pavement, making it spic and span for the returning shoppers. AContinue reading “Spic And Span”
Figures In A Queue 2
Now that there are more people around I’m out and about a bit more sketching. It’s great that people are in queues at the moment because they’re not rushing around and that makes it easier for me to sketch them. It’s good practice. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some smallContinue reading “Figures In A Queue 2”
Finally Finished Faking Frida
I finally finished faking Frida! I started this weeks ago on a Zoom tutorial with Ed Sumner of the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. The original is a modern painting by an artist called Nettsch. I need more practice with foliage and birds, they were much harder than the figure. It’s painted inContinue reading “Finally Finished Faking Frida”
Pushing It
Oh, I hated doing this. But I pushed myself to finish because you don’t learn much by giving up. Margaret MacDonald’s original, The Mysterious Garden, was watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum and this copy is acrylic paint onto stretched canvas, so it wasn’t going to be easy to make an accurate fake. It’sContinue reading “Pushing It”
In The Dark Without My Glasses
I really need varifocal glasses, but I tried them and they made me feel sick and I fell over my feet. So now I juggle with three pairs of glasses but yesterday, when I had a scribble during a Zoom meeting, I couldn’t find the ones I needed so I ended up doing the sketchContinue reading “In The Dark Without My Glasses”
Woman In Gold In A Minute And Lots Of Fakes
For most of the past year, since the first lockdown began, I have been painting fakes on Fridays with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Here are the first 28 – I’ve got about another 20 since I did these. And here’s a timelapse video of me painting Gustav Klimt’s Woman InContinue reading “Woman In Gold In A Minute And Lots Of Fakes”
A Slow Sketch
A Slow Sketch. I’m sketching from some photos I did on one of our local walks the other day. It’s a different kind of sketching, normally I sketch from life but that has to be done really quickly. Sketching from photos gives me the luxury of analysing what’s there, comparing proportions, looking at perspectives andContinue reading “A Slow Sketch”
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