I cut out a cat silhouette based on our Bill a while back and rediscovered them, the positive and negative, as I’m clearing out my plans chests (that’s another story). I’m having fun playing with these little silhouettes on different backgrounds. Here’s the positive, I did the negative on the same background a couple ofContinue reading “#Caturday Silhouette: 2”
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#Caturday (a bit late again).
It was #Caturday Saturday yesterday not today, Sunday. But what’s 24 hours between friends? I cut this silhouette of Bill (aka William Chat-Noir aka Phoebe) our little rescue cat, earlier this year. I found it while I was sorting through my plans chest today (desperately trying to declutter) and I realised I hadn’t even begunContinue reading “#Caturday (a bit late again).”
Remembering.
Yesterday I posted about some painting I did a few years back, experimenting with acrylic paint on heavy paper. Here’s another segment of the painting. I started with translucent washes of acrylic paint, then I drew onto that base, but I can’t remember what I used to do the drawing. I’ll have to dig itContinue reading “Remembering.”
Paint Overlays.
I was experimenting with acrylic paints onto stretched paper, laying down some base colours with brushes then, when they’re dry, overlaying a coat of white acrylic and working into it with a cotton bud (Q-Tip) while it’s still wet. It gives a really interesting 3D effect.
A year ago, Husb and I took a short break in North Wales, near Eryri (Snowdon). It poured down! But I did some expressionistic drawings with soft pastels into my Daler Rowney black paper sketchbook, you can see one in the background (above). Click here to see a short film about it. I worked veryContinue reading
Let’s Get Ready To Roller…..
I’m rollering grey paint (Liquitex) onto black canvas (The Works) with a sponge roller. I’m trying to be as bold with my painting as I was recently with my drawings during my residency in Germany. Let’s see where this goes…
Getting Ready…
Getting ready to try a new approach to painting. I bought some square black canvasses, quite cheap in The Works, and I’m going to have a go at rollering Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint directly onto them with a sponge roller. I have a plan. Let’s see how (if) it works out.
More Finger Fun…
I loved getting my fingers stuck into poster paints the other day, and just having fun with them. I used a big brush as well. It’s nothing really, sploshing about, but still an opportunity to see how paints work and how colours work.
A Finger Of Fun…
Art can be very serious and it’s nice now and again to just have a bit of fun and play with it. I stuck my fingers in some kids’ poster paints and splatted them onto a sheet of sturdy paper. It was fun but also I got effects I wouldn’t normally when I paint becauseContinue reading “A Finger Of Fun…”
One Day I Did Some Abstract Expressionism….
It was twelve years ago, in a Moment of Madness. I worked in oil bars onto a huge piece of cardboard stapled to the wall of my studio. I don’t know why I came over all Abstract Expressionist and I haven’t done it since. I didn’t really know where to go with it so itContinue reading “One Day I Did Some Abstract Expressionism….”
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