Here’s the latest fake I did with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Ed started the weekly lunchtime sessions at the start of Covid19 lockdown in March last year and he’s done about 70 so far. This week it’s a copy of a painting by David Hockney. I think the original showsContinue reading “Choppy Texture”
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Painting My Plums A Bit More
I started to paint a still life of plums from a food photo I took way back at the beginning of the Covid19 lockdown last Spring. I was cooking like a maniac and my creativity was channelled into photographing what I was doing. The photo is from a recipe called “Hot Buttered Plums” – hereContinue reading “Painting My Plums A Bit More”
Painting My Plums
Back at the beginning of lockdown, about 16 months ago now, I lost all interest in doing art but got obsessively into cooking. I took photos of what I was doing as I went along and blogged them. Then I found Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and got stuck into doingContinue reading “Painting My Plums”
Bit Of A Curate’s Egg
Here’s my latest from Ed Sumner’s Friday sessions at the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Normally Ed chooses an old master (or mistress) to copy but this week we did something different and painted from a photograph. I’ve got mixed feelings about it, it’s a bit of a curate’s egg, but I’m learningContinue reading “Bit Of A Curate’s Egg”
Cutting My Losses
Sometimes things just don’t work and you have to decide whether to carry on struggling or cut your losses and pack it in. That’s where I am with this copy of Claude Monet’s “Landscape on the Ile Saint Martin (1881) that I started with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook last week.Continue reading “Cutting My Losses”
Faking A Vincent
Finally finished faking Friday’s masterpiece, Sunset at Wheat Field by Vincent van Gogh, painted in 1888. I started it with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Ed’s been running these sessions since lockdown started in March last year, to help people find a focus in these weird times. I’ve now completed overContinue reading “Faking A Vincent”
A Landscape Of Flesh
Here’s the latest “fake” that I’ve done with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. It’s a sunset by the Norvegian artist Edvard Munch. The original is weird, the landscape looks like it’s made from flesh, but it’s the sort of thing you’d expect from Munch. We used an interesting technique where theContinue reading “A Landscape Of Flesh”
And The Cat Helped …..
Painting van Gogh’s bedroom in under a minute – and the cat helped too. Husb films me when I’m faking on Fridays with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook and then edits several hours of painting into around a minute. It took about 6 hours really. A Chance To Own OneContinue reading “And The Cat Helped …..”
Finally Finished Vincent’s Bedroom
I finally finished faffing with van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom in Arles. I started it a few weeks ago on one of painter Ed Sumner’s Zoom tutorials. It’s a lot more complex than it looks. Vincent’s brushwork is multi-layered and his composition, although it looks simple, has some difficult distorted perspective. Of course IContinue reading “Finally Finished Vincent’s Bedroom”
Nearly Finished The Sky
I did a bit more work on the sky painting I started yesterday at Ed Sumner’s online “Cheese and Wine Painting Club“. I think I’ll have to do a bit more faffing; a couple of the smaller clouds are too dark and there’s more to be done on the reflections of the clouds in theContinue reading “Nearly Finished The Sky”