I’ve finished the little painting of my young relative who likes to hang upside down. It’s a great pose to paint and I did a lot of the process working from the source photos upside down too, as I find it easier to capture a likeness that way. Here are the steps along the way.Continue reading “Finished The Upside Down Boy”
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Faking Kandinsky
This week’s fake with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook is one of Wassily Kandinsky’s views of Murnau, painted when he lived there in the early years of the twentieth century. I love it. I’ve used Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint onto a gesso-prepared stretched canvas. A Chance To Own One OfContinue reading “Faking Kandinsky”
Faffing With Kandinsky
Friday lunchtime is faking with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. This week it’s Murnau by Wassily Kandinsky. I’d always thought his work was completely abstract so I was well chuffed to see this, I love it. I haven’t finished it yet, maybe another hour or so of faffing to get itContinue reading “Faffing With Kandinsky”
The Upside Down Boy Is Coming Along
My little painting of my young upside down relative is coming along – I find that the drawing is the hard bit and to be honest painting is a bit boring. But maybe I’m doing it wrong. Painting doesn’t come naturally to me. Anyway, not much more to do now, should be finished soon. AContinue reading “The Upside Down Boy Is Coming Along”
The Boy And The Pudding
I did some more work on the “Upside Down Boy” painting today. He’s a young relative who seems to like hanging upside down. When I’m working from photos, I like to turn them upside down anyway because I find it easier to get a likeness, you don’t get distracted by what you think is there,Continue reading “The Boy And The Pudding”
The Upside-Down Boy
I started a little painting of my young relative today, working from a photograph, I drew onto primed canvas with a watercolour pencil and blended it with a fine round brush and water. It needs a bit of tweaking to get the likeness more accurate then I’ll play with my acrylic paints. He’s meant toContinue reading “The Upside-Down Boy”
The Very Slow Selfie
I carried on with this self portrait I started AGES ago, a very slow selfie. I’m trying to develop my own way of working, rather than copy another artist’s style, which is what I’ve been doing over the past year with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. I’m trying out differentContinue reading “The Very Slow Selfie”
Finished Faffing With Vincent’s Vessels
I finally finished copying van Gogh’s “Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries” that I started a couple of weeks ago in a Zoom tutorial with the painter Ed Sumner. This is the 47th fake I’ve painted since the first lockdown started just over a year ago. Not bad considering I’m a scribbler and printmaker,Continue reading “Finished Faffing With Vincent’s Vessels”
Oooh Nearly There….
I’ve almost finished the copy I’ve been doing of van Gogh’s “Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes Marie de la Mer”. It’s almost there, just a bit more faffing to do and it should be done. The beach is supposed to be where Mary Magdalene, along with two other Biblical Marys, landed in FranceContinue reading “Oooh Nearly There….”
No More Faffing On Monet’s Cliffs
Another fake finished …. I’m on a roll here. This is a copy of Claude Monet’s “Cliff at Grainval” that I started with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook about a week and a half ago. I didn’t much like it, there are plenty of other works by Monet that I preferContinue reading “No More Faffing On Monet’s Cliffs”