I finally finished faking van Gogh’s sunflowers. I’ve been faffing around with it off and on for a few weeks now. The strange sunflowers at the bottom of the vase took a lot of work and I was stumped about how to do them at first, but then I worked out how to dapple paintContinue reading “Finished Faking Sunflowers”
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Green Lady’s Yellow Frock
I’ve nearly finished the copy of Vladimir Tretchikoff’s “Green Lady” that I started a couple of weeks ago. I think her head is just about done now, so today I did a lot of work on the yoke of her dress. It’s an elaborate embroidered silky fabric and I’ve never painted anything like this before.Continue reading “Green Lady’s Yellow Frock”
The Making Of A Pandemic Painting
Here’s a short video, under 5 minutes, showing how I made this family Zoom painting, “18 people, 2 Dogs and a Cat”, from floundering at the beginning of lockdown in March 2020, through 9 months of faking famous paintings, to my first large scale original painting reflecting our family’s response to the pandemic. It’s subtitledContinue reading “The Making Of A Pandemic Painting”
Timelapse Turner
I recently finished faking a painting by JMW Turner, “Storm at Sea” and Husb made a timelapse video of me doing it. Here it is if you fancy seeing how it developed. I’ve been faking more or less every Friday throughout the pandemic lockdown, almost a year now, with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine PaintingContinue reading “Timelapse Turner”
Here Come The Clouds
Here’s my latest fake, a cloud study by the British painter John Constable done yesterday at Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Constable made about 50 oil sketches of clouds in 1821 – 1822 and many of his paintings feature spectacular skies. This has stronger colours than Constable’s and I might giveContinue reading “Here Come The Clouds”
Green Cheese
She’s green and this is possibly one of the cheesiest paintings of the 20th century (1952). She’s The Green Lady (also Chinese Girl) by the Russian painter Vladimir Tretchikoff. I did a Zoom tutorial this evening with Ed Sumner, who runs the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook on Fridays. It’s a late oneContinue reading “Green Cheese”
Dapping The Sunflowers
I’ve been carrying on copying this vase of sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh today. It’s not easy. I keep checking back with the original and it’s clear that Vincent used many layers of thick paint applied in streaks and dashes with a brush. The lower sunflowers look like he was dapping the paint on withContinue reading “Dapping The Sunflowers”
Faffing And Faking The Other Starry Night
I’ve stopped faffing and finished the copy of Starry Night On The Rhone by Vincent van Gogh that I began last Friday at Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club. Vincent’s painting are surprisingly complex. The composition is fairly simple but there are layers and layers of frantic brushstrokes in a many different tones ofContinue reading “Faffing And Faking The Other Starry Night”
The Vigil
Sometimes you see an image that jumps out at you – one that might well become iconic. This is one of those images, from a photo of the arrest of Patsy Stevenson by Hannah McKay: Credit Reuters, taken at yesterdays vigil for the murdered Sarah Everard in Clapham Common, London. Willow charcoal, gouache and watercolourContinue reading “The Vigil”
An Arty Morning
Husb and I had an arty morning today. I carried on working on two of the paintings I’m copying at the moment and Husb did some more on his self-portrait. I’ve been doing copies every week with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook for almost a year now and Husb began hisContinue reading “An Arty Morning”
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