It’s Boxing Day. Yesterday was Christmas Day. I’m on holiday so mostly I’m stuffing my face with cheese and cherry liquer chocolates, slobbing around the house in trackie bottoms and watching Netflix. But I managed to drag myself off the settee for half an hour earlier to go for a socially distanced and masked walkContinue reading “Cheese And Trackie Bottoms …..”
Category Archives: At Home
Almost There ….. Not Quite …..
Yesterday evening I joined in with a Zoom tutorial run by the painter Ed Sumner. I’ve been following Ed’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club throughout lockdown, copying a work by a famous artist every Friday lunchtime, but this was a more intense teaching session about Vermeer’s “Girl In A Pearl Earring”. We did a lotContinue reading “Almost There ….. Not Quite …..”
A Carving, A Cat, And A Horse’s Skull
After a long break, I did some lino cutting today. It’s been months ….. I don’t think I’ve gone as long as this without doing some printmaking. The pandemic has had a strange effect on me and although I’ve been doing loads of painting and drawing, I haven’t been able to work up the enthusiasmContinue reading “A Carving, A Cat, And A Horse’s Skull”
Finally Finished Faking And A Bit More Baking
I finally finished faking the Cezanne landscape I started last Friday. He’s a very complex painter, the canvas is covered in layers and layers of translucent paint, and pigment dragged on with a dry brush so you can see so many subtle colours glowing through the entire work. I also finished icing some little XmasContinue reading “Finally Finished Faking And A Bit More Baking”
Squinting
I carried on working on last Friday’s fake painting, a landscape by Cezanne. The strident orange needed to be knocked back a bit, which I did with a very thin wash of watered down titanium white (Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic). But then I lost the lowlights so I had a good squint at the originalContinue reading “Squinting”
Faking And Baking … Again
I finished this fake Monet today – Tulip Fields. I started it the Friday before last in Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club and it’s taken me a while, but that’s the trouble with the Impressionists – all those little dots and dashes take ages. And Husb did some baking today – our firstContinue reading “Faking And Baking … Again”
Yet Another Faking Friday
It’s faking Friday again with painter Ed Sumner at the Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. Ed’s been running these lunchtime painting sessions since lockdown began in March and I joined in 4 or 5 weeks later. Today we copied a Cezanne landscape. I have maybe an hour or so more to doContinue reading “Yet Another Faking Friday”
Crafty
No art today, did craft instead. I iced my Xmas cake which I made from scratch and I was shown how to make a psychedelic origami Xmas tree by my lovely colleague from Crisis South Wales. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspiredContinue reading “Crafty”
Another Faking Friday ….
How many’s this? Twenty six? Twenty seven? I joined the Cheese and Wine Painting Club back in April when the first 3-week lockdown was extended, thinking I’d spend a few Fridays improving my painting skills. Now it’s nearly Xmas and painter Ed Sumner is still running it, because we’re still in lockdown. It costs aContinue reading “Another Faking Friday ….”
Finally Finished Faking Magritte’s “Son Of Man”
Finally finished faking the “Son Of Man” by The Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte that I started last Friday with the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. It’s surprising how complex it is. The composition is simple but the paintwork is very subtle and detailed. I could do a bit more work on it,Continue reading “Finally Finished Faking Magritte’s “Son Of Man””
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