Angels Are…Byzantine: 5

This is the fourth Byzantine angel I’ve studied from art history and apart from doing some more inking with white Liquitex acrylic ink, I’ll leave the Byzantine angels and research other types of angels. I like doing research like this, by studying and copying I can start to understand more than a cursory glance inContinue reading “Angels Are…Byzantine: 5”

Got To Begin Somewhere…

I’ve been asked to submit a piece to an upcoming exhibition on the theme of “Angels”. It’s not a subject I’ve ever given any thought to in the past so I have to develop something from scratch. So I grabbed some paper and started playing around with ink, a dip pen and a couple ofContinue reading “Got To Begin Somewhere…”

Paintingy Drawingy Thing

Today I had an urge to use paint. I’m not a painter. I don’t get paint but I really fancied using some earlier. So I stapled a bit of gesso-ed canvas to the wall and rubbed it all over with a yellow ochre acrylic pigment, put on with rags. It dried pretty quickly so IContinue reading “Paintingy Drawingy Thing”