Memory of devon

Posted on January 19, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Devon, Dolphin, Holiday, Memory, missing portrait, pod oof dolphins, Portrait, Sea, Swimming, Water, wild mammal5 Comments

I once swam with a wild dolphin, we’d been driving round Devon and came back to the seaside to find a crowd of people on the beach and a group in wetsuits about fifty yards out. They were all excited and we saw a pod of dolphins swimming away. But one stayed in the bay. I decided I would swim out a bit and got in the sea fully clothed minus my shoes and glasses. My hubby stayed on the beach. The dolphin swam backwards and forwards between the two groups of people. Because I was in the middle he ket swimming close to me. It was fascinating. He kept coming past me and I noticed large wounds on his sides. It was after half an hour of being near him that I saw he was male! I can only say that it was quite alarming and not at all spiritual!. The next day there was a sign up about him at the camp site. He was called Georges and he was an adolescent male. His scars were because he would get too close to boat propelers. It also said not to breathe near them as they can transmit airborne diseases from their blowholes.

When I got home I did an imagined portrait of him but unfortunately the painting is at my sisters otherwise I would share a photo of him leaping through the waves. X

Loving Vincent

Posted on January 18, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 1890, animation, Film, Fine Art, History, Illustration, Painting, Style, technique, Texture, Vincent, Vincent Van Gogh2 Comments

I saw this film late last night and was enthralled by it. Each individual frame is hand painted in Van Gogh’s style. The son of the postmaster where Van Gogh used to live goes off to try and deliver a letter from Vincent to his brother Theo, after his death. When he finds the brother is also dead he decides to take the letter to the Doctor who was treating Van Gogh before his apparent suicide.

The film covers the year after Van Gogh’s death and shows in black and white flash backs incidents that might have happened between Vincent and the people around him. This is told through a series of conversations between the postmaster son and various characters.

This is a visually sumptuous film in Van Gogh’s style. The Polish/British co-production is stunning and intriguing. The gradual understanding of what happened makes for a satisfying investigation of the circumstances surrounding his death.

Release date: 2017 (United Kingdom)Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh WelchmanMusic by: Clint MansellBox office: 42.1 million USDAwards: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film,

Self portraits

Posted on January 16, 2022January 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 1978, Canvas, Memories, Newspaper, Portraits, Quink ink, school of art, self portrait, TimeLeave a comment

Our college exhibition in 1978, a few of us got in the local paper. One image was painted in quink ink on paper and the other one was larger on a canvas. I don’t remember what happened to them. I may have left them at the school of art. Even now I still remember the fun I had painting them. I wish I could go back in time to those days again. I don’t know if they still sell quink ink. When you added water to the black colour it would split into browns and blues. Great for painting cloudy skies

Little Earth painting

Posted on January 13, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Astronomy, Clouds, Earth, Land, Painting, Sea, Space, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

A couple of years ago I painted this picture of Earth. I was trying to get the shading right so the clouds sit above the surface was difficult. This is North America, Canada and part of Mexico and the Caribbean.

I hope the cloud shapes work and you can see the weather patterns. I wonder if anyone would be interested in paintings of worlds. It’s something I’m interested in. I’ve painted pictures of Jupiter and other astronomical images. I don’t use an airbrush for painting so it’s quite hard to get the granularity and softness of space and planets.

Drawing Van Gogh?

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, BBC, Documentary, Drawing, Oil painting, Painting, Sketch, Study, the potato eaters, Van Gogh1 Comment

When I look at this I see my mistakes..

I’m watching a drama documentary about Van Gogh. I decided to try and do a quick study of one of the women from ‘the potato eaters’.

The documentary is about Vincent Van Gogh. It is by Alan Yentob and stars Benedict Cumberbatch. It is about Van Gogh’s life and creativity. His mental health and the art he created. It’s a BBC documentary and might be available to see. I’m enjoying it.

Oops!

Posted on January 9, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Accident, buying, Nodding off, online auction, Painting, Sleep, Social media, TiredLeave a comment

One minute I’m looking at various art online because I wanted to research a particulate artist. The next I’m falling asleep because of being very tired. The trouble is I was still holding my phone and my finger was poised over the keypad. Oops! The next thing I knew my finger was close to an ‘add to basket’ button. I’d almost bought a £200 painting! It was very nice, but I have several bills to pay this month….

Note to self, put the phone down if you are going to fall asleep!

Hibernating

Posted on January 7, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged awaken, Blossom, Cold, hibernating, Poem, Poetry, Sleep, Sleeping, Spring, Tired, Warm1 Comment

I might sleep till spring

Curled up and snug

Warm in my bed

Like a tidy ladybug

The sheets white like snow

Blue shadowed and dug

Deep into the duvet.

Then come springs light

Warm sun so bright

I’ll yawn and awake

Like blossom burst forth,

But till then I’ll wait

And keep warm.

From the 80’s

Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged amalgamation, Art, Breath, Fine Art, Horse, Mythical, Mythological, Oil painting, Painting, Pegasus, UnicornLeave a comment

An oil painting on board I did sometime in the 1980’s. It’s a sort of combination of a Pegasus/Unicorn which also breathes the wind. It’s semi abstract with a feeling of being stained glass. I would have liked to have actually made it, if it was possible. It’s quite small, about 12″ by 16″, the colours are quite muted. I love the fun of experimenting with painting. I like the idea of making an amalgamation of creatures.

Painting from college

Posted on December 31, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, boyfriend, College, Fine Art, Hubby, Life, Memory, Oil on canvas, Painting, Portrait, SnowLeave a comment

This is a painting I did when I was about twenty. I was at college doing my fine art degree and I had recently met my then boyfriend (now hubby). This was in my small studio at college. The painting has been on the wall for several years. I painted him sitting on a chair with his feet up. He hasn’t changed too much.

Outside there was snow lying on the hills above the city. You could just see the roofs of the college across the road. The rooms we worked in were reasonably light. I remember the studios upstairs had parquet flooring. It was a different world from what I came from. I’m glad I went.

Nine pictures…

Posted on December 31, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Fine Art, Life, nine images, Painting, retrospective, Tiny paintingLeave a comment

Artists on Instagram are posting nine favourite images from 2021.

So here are nine favourite images I created over several years. I realised I haven’t done many paintings this year because of doing my Illustration course. These images include a couple of murals and a tiny painting. They show me as an eclectic artist who loves colour, the environment and also abstraction.

Mallaband-Brown

Category: Fine Art