Gallery problems

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Gallery, Irritating, lost images, Memory, Optimised, Phone, Problems, Time, YearsLeave a comment

My phone is doing strange things, especially when I’ve tried to upload images to my Facebook page today. I decided to optimise some of my photos because my phone memory is too full. Usually the images that I have shrunk stay on the phone and the others are deleted. But thus time everything doubled up. I tried deleting the old ones, but I had to restart the phone and my images seemed to get mixed up. I tried finding them and although I did the gallery kept reverting to the older ones. I guess I need to buy a new memory card? I don’t know if I can sort it out otherwise.

Blue Thumb

Posted on October 18, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Blue, experience, Fine Art, Oils, Painting, Paints, Plastic, stable, stains, thinners, ThumbLeave a comment

One of the hazards of painting is getting covered in paint! I stuck my thumb in my pallette and splodge, all over my thumb. Luckily I didn’t get any on my clothes! I can wash acrylic off my hands, but once it’s dried it’s impossible to get out of your top or trousers. Oil paint can sometimes be removed as it’s slow drying and you can use thinners to remove it, but once acrylic is dry it’s solid like plastic. You might be able to peel a bit off but it gets in between the fibers and sticks. Anyway, I love this colour blue. Ultramarine? Not sure….

Finished Poppy Meditation

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colour, Fine Art, Finished, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Painting, Poppies, poppy meditation, Tired4 Comments

Hard work, but I think it was worth it. I think some of my paintings are like knitting or embroidery, pulling all the threads together to bring it to a finished piece. And sometimes it’s knowing where to stop, to feel satisfied. Sometimes my hubby says I overwork things, but I think I know where I am with this. I decided not to add any bees or butterflies, I think that would just distract.

Upside down

Posted on October 18, 2022October 19, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Blurred, Distance, Fine Art, Painting, Poppies, upside down, Work in progressLeave a comment

I turned my painting upside down because I’m struggling to reach the top with my aching and shaking arms. I’m working on the background. But it also helps me see shapes and tones and proportions. I need to decide if I want the background to be blurry? Perhaps I should change my brush size and try and blur the edges. I will turn it back in a while….

Close up

Posted on October 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Close up, details, Fine Art, Painting, Poppy, Work in progress2 Comments

I am painting again. I’ve spent a few hours on this and it’s about a quarter done. I want to get it finished quickly because it needs taking in to the gallery, but I want to make sure it’s a good job. I’m layering u the flowers and I will be adding vegetation growing in front to give it more depth soon. I have to stand back from it to check how it fits together. But is it too busy?

Work in progress, meadow

Posted on October 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Flowers, Garden, Painting, Plants, Poppies, undergrowth, Work in progressLeave a comment

Poppies and other flowers, I started painting this a few days ago and am trying to make progress. The flowers and tangle of vegetation is based on a photo I took at Trentham Gardens this summer. I hope it can be a meditative piece for a quiet room at the gallery which I have work in. I’m going to press on with this, it’s keeping my mind off things.

Flowers?

Posted on October 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Flowers, Gardening, meadow, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

I’ve started working on a painting of flowers in a meadow. I am not including the sky, I just want to concentrate on the flowers. I’m afraid I don’t know the names of all of them. I want the image to look realistic and hopefully beautiful. It’s about two feet by one and a half. It will be acrylic on canvas.

New painting

Posted on October 14, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Fine Art, Flower, Green, Life, Plants, Poppy, Red, Rememberance, Small painting2 Comments

Painted this today, only 5×5 inches. I might add more to the background. It’s meant to have droplets of water (like tears) on the petals. I’m also trying to emphasise the flower with a strong red but I don’t know if I should darken the greens. Still I have at least painted again.

Shall I paint another?

Posted on October 13, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Black, Colours, Fine Art, Green, Ideas, life forget-me-nots, Painting, Poppy, Red, WhiteLeave a comment

I painted this a few years ago, it’s based on a poppy with a white centre. Most poppies have dark splodges in the centre. I think this looks more subtle. I’m toying with the idea of painting a mixture of both on a larger canvas? The background would be greens and straw coloured. Got to possibly block out or draw out their positions and then maybe add some forget-me-nots.

Get my brushes out

Posted on October 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Artists block, Brushes, Colours, Darkness, Light, Painting, prism, Rainbows, ThinkingLeave a comment

I feel guilty that I haven’t painted. I think I need to get my brushes out. Painting is my reason for being. It’s not negotiable, I have to paint, or at least draw. It will happen, I’m just not sure when. As the days get darker I always find it more difficult, especially painting under artificial light. By the way, I must have a hundred brushes around the house, I think they multiply when I’m not looking!

I was looking for an image to use for this post and found this. Where the light through prisms in the mobile in my window was casting rainbows on these brushes. I hope I don’t get artists block, sometimes I just can’t paint…

Mallaband-Brown

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