I’m trying to do more street sketching en plein air now that lockdown is easing off. I used to do a lot of outdoor scribbling, but there have been so few people around over the past year. But now we have queues! So I’m going around drawing them. It’s good practice as I get aContinue reading “Figures In A Queue”
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Pushing It
Oh, I hated doing this. But I pushed myself to finish because you don’t learn much by giving up. Margaret MacDonald’s original, The Mysterious Garden, was watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum and this copy is acrylic paint onto stretched canvas, so it wasn’t going to be easy to make an accurate fake. It’sContinue reading “Pushing It”
In The Dark Without My Glasses
I really need varifocal glasses, but I tried them and they made me feel sick and I fell over my feet. So now I juggle with three pairs of glasses but yesterday, when I had a scribble during a Zoom meeting, I couldn’t find the ones I needed so I ended up doing the sketchContinue reading “In The Dark Without My Glasses”
Woman In Gold In A Minute And Lots Of Fakes
For most of the past year, since the first lockdown began, I have been painting fakes on Fridays with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. Here are the first 28 – I’ve got about another 20 since I did these. And here’s a timelapse video of me painting Gustav Klimt’s Woman InContinue reading “Woman In Gold In A Minute And Lots Of Fakes”
A Slow Sketch
A Slow Sketch. I’m sketching from some photos I did on one of our local walks the other day. It’s a different kind of sketching, normally I sketch from life but that has to be done really quickly. Sketching from photos gives me the luxury of analysing what’s there, comparing proportions, looking at perspectives andContinue reading “A Slow Sketch”
Sketching, Masking And An Explosive Pudding
Back to basics Back to basics today with a little bit of sketching. I’m going to try and do a good few of these over the coming week. I’ve been neglecting my sketchbook work for a while, which is really slack of me. Sketching is good practice and I need to take it more seriously.Continue reading “Sketching, Masking And An Explosive Pudding”
I started copying this work, The Mysterious Garden, by the British Art Nouveau artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh on Friday with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club over on Facebook. I have a fair bit more work to do on it and I’m finding it tough going because it’s a style of painting I’m unfamiliarContinue reading
Queueing In The Park
It was a gorgeous day so Husb and I went walking with a nephew in our ‘bubble’ to Cwmdonkin Park where the little café was open for the first time in many months, serving takeaways. Husb joined the queue while nephew and I sat on a park bench, soaking up the Spring sunshine which wasContinue reading “Queueing In The Park”
Sticks Before My Eyes
I reached the point of no more faffing with van Gogh’s “Street Scene in Montmartre”. That’s it now. I’ve painted so many sticks I’m seeing them when I close my eyes. Vincent was living with his brother Theo in 1886 when he painted this, when the area was still very rural. It’s not like thatContinue reading “Sticks Before My Eyes”
Timelapse Tretchikoff
Here’s a short timelapse video of me copying Tretchikoff’s Green Lady – I wish I could do it this fast!!! A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modernContinue reading “Timelapse Tretchikoff”
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