Faking Friday Flowers

It’s faking Friday again with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. I so enjoy these weekly sessions that Ed has been running since the first lockdown in March 2020. I’m learning loads about painting as well. This week it’s a van Gogh, one of his paintings of irises. It’s using aContinue reading “Faking Friday Flowers”

Comfort Painting

That’s quite a lot of paintings for someone who hardly paints. I lost interest in painting on the first year of my Art Diploma course back in the 1970s, choosing to major in printmaking instead. I always found painting a bit messy and drawing was my great love, I found more affinity between printmaking andContinue reading “Comfort Painting”

Flicking And Faking

Today I finished faking one of Monet’s waterlily paintings that I started last Friday with the Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. What I really liked about this one was learning to apply paint in different ways, not just using a brush. I used my fingers to smear, nails to scratch, a ragContinue reading “Flicking And Faking”

Faking Friday, Murky Monet

What number is this fake? I think it’s 34. That’s a lot of painting, paint and canvasses since I started back last Spring with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. Every Friday lunchtime is a different painting by a famous artist to fake in an hour and a half. I’ve neverContinue reading “Faking Friday, Murky Monet”

Finally Finished Faking Hockney’s Yorkshire Logs

Here’s the finished fake David Hockney painting. I started it on Friday so I’m pretty pleased with the progress. As always I learnt a lot about painting by doing it. I’ve been doing these paintings with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook every Friday. Ed started it at the beginning of theContinue reading “Finally Finished Faking Hockney’s Yorkshire Logs”

More Faking, More Baking

I did some more painting on the Hockney I began on Friday with Ed Sumner’s weekly Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. His work is a lot more complex than it looks, although his compositions seem fairly simple, there are layers and layers of paint and texture piled up on the canvas. I hopeContinue reading “More Faking, More Baking”

Carrying On With The Cat On #Caturday

I started this little canvas weeks ago, using up some leftover paints that I didn’t want to waste – they’re expensive. I sketched in a very rough shape of Sparta Puss on the chair and after a couple of layers using the paint as a thin wash, which I didn’t particularly like, I started addingContinue reading “Carrying On With The Cat On #Caturday”

David Hockney On Faking Friday

It’s Friday so it’s Faking day with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and this week it’s one of the Yorkshire paintings by David Hockney. I’ve got the basics down and now I need to spend an hour or two on the details over the weekend. Ed Sumner started the painting clubContinue reading “David Hockney On Faking Friday”

Flowery Finish!

That’s it! Had enough of painting a posy with a palette knife! Way out of my comfort zone! It’s good practise though and I had to be really disciplined to carry on with it until I got something reasonable, rather than just slap a load of white paint over it all and recycle the canvas.Continue reading “Flowery Finish!”

I Took My Time

At last I’ve finished painting the fake Klimt “Woman In Gold, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1” that I started a few weeks back on an online tutorial with the painter Ed Sumner. I’ve put more into this than any of the other fakes I’ve done throughout lockdown – over 30 so far – but apparentlyContinue reading “I Took My Time”