New paintings and regular art updates.
I have a few miniature paintings for sale at the Etruria Industrial museum. They are pictures I painted a few years ago that I had left over. If they don’t sell I could glue magnets on the back of them and varnish them to be used as fridge magnets.
I have a small painting someone gave me which has built in magnets, that’s where I got the idea from.
I want to try and do something because I feel like my art life is ending… And I don’t want it to.
Acrylic on canvas, abstract poured blue paint, I filled, then used a toothbrush to add wispy texture. As a matter of interest in this orientation I think it looks like a lions head?
Someone asked for mythical paintings so I shared this. It must be 40 years old. I think I painted it after finishing college. It’s oil paint on hardboard.
My downstairs lights don’t work and I need to get someone in to fix them, so the image is very dark. I’ll try and take a clearer picture of it.
It was fun creating a combined unicorn and pegasus.. Why not?
Another experimental piece. There were 6 bottles of new iridescent acrylic paint at art group. Each bottle had a little cap inside the lid to stop the paint leaking out. They all had paint adhering under the caps so I used them to create dots of colour. The central yellow circle was created first using all the paint under the cap swirled round in the surface of the canvas. Each other dot only used the paint under the caps and making an uneven surface. The extra patterns were brushed on afterwards.
I see a central sun serrounded by a white path, that in turn is circled by trees then flowers. Or a kaleidoscope.
I’ve struggled with this for 2 years. I do a bit and get fed up. I’m making the design up and it’s fiddly, my hands shake and it’s hard to get it right. The base of the pot curve is not right. Maybe I’ll get it finished once this hot spell of weather is over? So it’s a WIP.
Playing with line, used a toothbrush for the black outlines. Acrylic on canvas. Done at art group today. I gave it to a friend as it reminded her of her cat Marmalade. X
Here is my painting, finally finished and hanging in my friends house. It’s colours really match the decor.. I’m so pleased I painted this it took ages but it works well. I can still paint!
Improved the right hand side of the painting. It looked a bit bland and needed some more interesting vegetation… More work, but worth it.
Criccieth Castle, Wales. Looks a bit like a whale. I hope the person who commissioned it will be happy? I had to leave off some buildings and people from the original photo. That has made the hillside a bit more difficult to paint, imagining the undergrowth.
What do you think? I hope they like the restless waves.
So pleased I’ve got my little painting “cat fish” accepted in the 3 counties open exhibition in August. It doesn’t happen often these days x
Mallaband-Brown