More work done on the van Gogh that I’m copying, “Fishing Boats on a Beach”. It’s almost there, just a bit more faffing to do and it should be finished. I’m using Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paints onto stretched, primed canvas. I started it last week in a Zoom tutorial from Ed Sumner who runsContinue reading “Faffing With The Fishing Boats”
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Faking van Gogh
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”
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”
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”
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”
I started copying this work, The Mysterious Garden, by the British Art Nouveau artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh on Friday with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. I have a fair bit more work to do on it and I’m finding it tough going because it’s a style of painting I’m unfamiliarContinue reading
Sticks Before My Eyes
I reached the point of no more faffing with van Gogh’s “Street Scene in Montmartre”. That’s it now. I’ve painted so many sticks I’m seeing them when I close my eyes. Vincent was living with his brother Theo in 1886 when he painted this, when the area was still very rural. It’s not like thatContinue reading “Sticks Before My Eyes”
Timelapse Tretchikoff
Here’s a short timelapse video of me copying Tretchikoff’s Green Lady – I wish I could do it this fast!!! A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modernContinue reading “Timelapse Tretchikoff”
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