I painted an elephant portrait.

Posted on July 5, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Blurry, Elephant, Etruria Industrial museum, Life, Painting, Papier mache, penkhull mystery plays, Portrait, seven years2 Comments

Seven years ago I had a small exhibition at Etruria Industrial museum. This blurry photo just came up on my Facebook memories.

The blurry image of my painting was taken from a photo of my friend with a white elephant she had made of paper and willow withies. She was sewing a rich red and yellow fringe around it as way of hiding the legs of the person who was to carry it. The back had a hollow ‘houda’ I think its called? Like a basket to sit in. This was so a person could carry the elephant but look like they were riding it. I loved this representation of the elephant and decided to paint this image. My friend had the painting. The elephant? I think it was destroyed in a fire in the shed where it was stored…

#movement

Posted on July 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Dolphins, Fine Art, Life, Movement, Nature, Painting, Prompt, Swimming4 Comments

One of the Art groups I’m in wanted us to post a picture based on the prompt #movement. This was from my imagination after swimming with a wild dolphin called Georges. It had swum into a bay where we were caravanning and stayed around after the rest of his pod had gone. There was a notice the next day saying you shouldn’t swim with him because he was over friendly and dolphins can pass on pneumonia from the droplets from their blowhole. Anyway. I loved painting this and have great memories of swimming with a dolphin!

A little sun in someone’s house

Posted on June 30, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, blue and yellow, Design, Fine Art, Friend, Kitchen, Painting, Small painting, Sun2 Comments

A friend just sent me this photo. It’s one of my little paintings in someone’s kitchen. Just a simple design. I was rather pleased to get this. Knowing my art is appreciated cheers me up!

Small flying horse

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Colour, Fine Art, Horse, Old painting, Painting, Pegasus, white horse7 Comments

Another old painting from 2015, I’m not quite sure what I was thinking and it’s probably best forgotten!

Things I would change? The colours possibly. I would try and work from a horse photo because this isn’t very anatomically correct, I know it doesn’t actually have wings either! I guess I’ve made it delicate to be light enough to be held up by wings… Strange what you create as an artist.

Old painting

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Apple, apples coffee house, Art, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Proserpine2 Comments

My friend Apple has a restaurant and also a coffee shop. The shop has been closed for a while because of the pandemic, but now things are calming down she’s trying to reopen it. After three years she’s putting a lot of work into creating a social and friendly space for people to meet up. She’s given herself a month to get things sorted out. I was talking to her and found this photo of an old painting I did based on the painting Proserpine by one of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. I can’t remember the actual artist.

What I did was to try and copy the painting and add an apple instead of a pomegranate to relate to my friends name. You can’t see but I also painted Apples coffee house at the top right on a sign. Sorry the photos a bit blurry!

My tribute

Posted on June 9, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, at peace, Fine Art, Finished, Life, Portrait, Sister, Small painting, Twin4 Comments

Tribute to my lost sister, as a young woman. I promised it but it’s taken months to finish. Perhaps I can finally move on? It sat half done, staring at me. But I feel she is at rest. Art has always been my freedom. I can work through my feelings when I do it. Life has to go on, even though its sometimes really tough.

Finished!

Posted on June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Morris Man / Steam Punk, Phil?, Portrait, TiredLeave a comment

I could have continued to adjust this but I’m tired out and my arm is shaking too much. The entry date is Monday for the three counties open exhibition with Keele University in Staffordshire. I didn’t want to leave it till the last minute. Wish me luck!

Almost done….

Posted on June 8, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Clocks, Cogs, Dancer, morris man, Painting, Phil?, steam punk, Work in progress2 Comments

The cogs are a bit messy on the hat. I might change the shading, but I’m painting under electric light now so it’s got a different cast or hue to how it was painting in daylight. But it’s almost done…. Tiring and hard to see details…. I’ve added a few gold highlights, I might add some silvers. I will have it done by tomorrow I think….

Are you bored yet?

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, analogue fun, Design, Digital, Fine Art, Painting, Style, Work in progressLeave a comment

Adding some swirliness to mimic a digital style I like. Why shouldn’t digital and analogue ideas merge? I’m not channelling Van Gogh, just having a bit of fun with texture. I’m going to calm down the Green glasses and add some silver or gold to them… I need to work out how the sky will look. But now… A rest!

More splodging

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, details, Fine Art, Painting, Sketching, Texture, Work in progressLeave a comment

Getting placement and colours right. I like this composition because it has red and green complementary colours. But with yellows and blues to jazz it up. I need to sort out the chin and the fence. It needs to go backwards and the face to come forwards. There is detail on the gate and face I haven’t added yet, but the paint is wet and I don’t want it to become too blurry.

Mallaband-Brown

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