What number is this fake? I think it’s 34. That’s a lot of painting, paint and canvasses since I started back last Spring with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. Every Friday lunchtime is a different painting by a famous artist to fake in an hour and a half. I’ve neverContinue reading “Faking Friday, Murky Monet”
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And The Cat “Helped”
And the cat “helped”. I went back to the two head drawings I did over the past couple of days and did a bit more work into them with black gouache. These are random heads and I’m going to keep building with gouache, colour is next, and see where it takes me. I’ve always lovedContinue reading “And The Cat “Helped””
Thanks Maggi
I’m rewatching the BBC documentary on the artist Maggi Hambling on the recommendation of an artist chum. First time round I only watched superficially but this time I’m much more connected to it. I love the way she just picks up a sketchbook every morning and draws. Nothing planned, nothing precious, just draw. I tendContinue reading “Thanks Maggi”
Pushing Through The Fog
I’m still finding it hard to get some creative ideas firmed up, during these 10 months of lockdown I’ve done loads of cooking and I’ve been learning to paint but coming up with something original has been really difficult. I’m still trying though, hoping that something will push through the creative fog. Anyway, today IContinue reading “Pushing Through The Fog”
Finally Finished Faking Hockney’s Yorkshire Logs
Here’s the finished fake David Hockney painting. I started it on Friday so I’m pretty pleased with the progress. As always I learnt a lot about painting by doing it. I’ve been doing these paintings with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook every Friday. Ed started it at the beginning of theContinue reading “Finally Finished Faking Hockney’s Yorkshire Logs”
More Faking, More Baking
I did some more painting on the Hockney I began on Friday with Ed Sumner’s weekly Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. His work is a lot more complex than it looks, although his compositions seem fairly simple, there are layers and layers of paint and texture piled up on the canvas. I hopeContinue reading “More Faking, More Baking”
Carrying On With The Cat On #Caturday
I started this little canvas weeks ago, using up some leftover paints that I didn’t want to waste – they’re expensive. I sketched in a very rough shape of Sparta Puss on the chair and after a couple of layers using the paint as a thin wash, which I didn’t particularly like, I started addingContinue reading “Carrying On With The Cat On #Caturday”
David Hockney On Faking Friday
It’s Friday so it’s Faking day with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and this week it’s one of the Yorkshire paintings by David Hockney. I’ve got the basics down and now I need to spend an hour or two on the details over the weekend. Ed Sumner started the painting clubContinue reading “David Hockney On Faking Friday”
Swoosh And Squiggle
If we weren’t in lockdown, I’d be doing life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop, but that’s off for the foreseeable future so here’s a blast from the past. I did this about 8 years ago, when I was going through a painty sort of phase, working from an original drawing. I wasn’t using brushes butContinue reading “Swoosh And Squiggle”
Flowery Finish!
That’s it! Had enough of painting a posy with a palette knife! Way out of my comfort zone! It’s good practise though and I had to be really disciplined to carry on with it until I got something reasonable, rather than just slap a load of white paint over it all and recycle the canvas.Continue reading “Flowery Finish!”
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