Pandemic – Page 23

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”

Craft And Cake

Today, like yesterday, was another day of craft and cake. I work part time as an arts educator for a homelessness charity and today I ran a Zoom session making Xmas wrapping paper and labels with potato prints. I haven’t done them since primary school but it was fun and the results weren’t too badContinue reading “Craft And Cake”

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”

The Lounging Pose

Here’s the last drawing / painting I did at life drawing last week. It was a 60 minute pose – nearly – in gouache onto black paper. I like these lounging poses, they’re very natural. Having an hour gave me a chance to really concentrate on things like perspective, foreshortening and measuring. It isn’t asContinue reading “The Lounging Pose”

Uncle Bryn In Gouache

I finished this gouache portrait sketch of the Welsh actor Rob Brydon, in his incarnation as Uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey. It’s for the GS Artists / 9-to-90 Creative Community Art Festival in Swansea. Last year the subject was Michael Sheen – I did him in embroidery. I think I got a better likenessContinue reading “Uncle Bryn In Gouache”

After The Short Poses ….

After the short poses at life drawing sessions, we move on to 30 minute poses, where I can focus a bit more on the details, but not too much. This week I did a portrait and a reclining pose. Two of my favourites. I’m using gouache into a black sketchbook. AContinue reading “After The Short Poses ….”

The Short Poses

We always have a few quick poses at the life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, a cuple of five minutes, one or two ten minutes. These are great because they force you to concentrate on capturing what’s essential, the basis that underlie the image. In the 5 minute pose above, our model poses withContinue reading “The Short Poses”