Three new?

Posted on March 25, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Autumnal, Fine Art, Life, Painting, reference, Umbrella, Weather4 Comments

Enjoyed starting a few paintings today at the Orme Art Group after turning up with no reference photos, I forget to take my phone and it has some flower photos I was going to use! Thanks to a lady called Steph for letting me borrow her pictures.

These are only daubed in… I will go over them and add details later. I started one little canvas but I didn’t want to muddy the colours so I started another picture, then another. I’m hoping these all have a feeling of atmosphere. I want them to look misty and damp.

Painting and drawing

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocked, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1884, diagnosis, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Prompt2 Comments

What do you wish you could do more every day?

I used to paint and draw a lot more than I do now. I feel though that recently I’m quite blocked, stuck, nervous of creating. Yes I sketch every couple of days, but my easle is resolutely empty. The paints in their boxes, the brushes lying fallow. The trouble is my physical health. My left arm keeps shaking and I have pain in my elbow. I’m still waiting for a full diagnosis. I don’t think it’s anxiety, but not painting makes me anxious….

I just saw a painting/art competition online, but the entry needs to have been created after 1st January 2023. The painting I had in mind, and it was a good one, was from a couple of years ago, so it was not suitable. Also the entry date is tomorrow, I’m not going to have time unless I get my paints out NOW and paint all night..

I have a list of paintings to do for friends and family. I feel oppressed by that. I should feel glad. I need to break the block.

Jupiter’s pole

Posted on March 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Astronomy, Clouds, Juno probe, Jupiter, Painting, Pole, SpaceLeave a comment

Probably my most abstract image, actually me trying to paint one of the poles of Jupiter taken by the Juno probe a few years ago. It just popped up in my Facebook memories. I find blending difficult for paintings like this. Acrylic dries to quickly to get a fluffy feel to the clouds. I might revisit this and add a bit more to it.

#motion

Posted on March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Devon, Dolphin, Fine Art, Georges, Life, Movement, Painting, Swimming4 Comments

One of the art groups I’m part of put a prompt of #motion on their Facebook page today. I thought of this painting. Acrylic on canvas called Georges from a few years ago. A painting from memory of when I jumped in the sea fully clothed and swam out to a wild dolphin at Challaborough? In Devon. There were people on the beach and people in wetsuits further out. Georges kept swimming past me because I was somewhere in the middle. He’d got lots of scars along his body. I found out from a poster the next day telling people not to swim with him as he was too friendly and had been cut by boat propellers. You can also catch illnesses like pneumonia from breathing the air from their blowhole.

Mixed up phone photos

Posted on February 24, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Confused, Images, Life, out of order, Painting, Phone memory, Photos, PicturesLeave a comment

I decided to free up a bit of space on my phone yesterday as I was on over 90% full. I really need to get more memory on my phone as I have over 3,000 images. The trouble is when I optimise and delete photos it resets the date on them so sometimes they all reorder themselves and jump around in my gallery until they settle down. Then I end up with a lot of duplicated photos and I have to go in and delete the duplications, and I also try and edit the others and try and delete more of the ones I don’t like. I hope you don’t have these problems!

The featured image is a painting of frost on canvas where I edited it in a filter to change the colours. It just popped up in my photo gallery.

Final photo

Posted on February 14, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Beach, Commission, Fine Art, lapping, Ocean, Painting, Rocks, Sand, Sea, tide, Water2 Comments

I asked for a photo of my beach painting from the lady who bought it (it went to the person who had commissioned it and I had forgotten to take a picture). She was really happy with it. I tried to get that feeling of water washing on and out, flowing over the sand. A few dark rocks sit in the bottom right hand corner and I really tried to get bright sunny colours into it. I found the blue hard to get right, so I used a turquoise hue to get that marine feeling.

Autumn and Spring painting

Posted on February 11, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Description, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Spring, Thinking, World8 Comments

Sometimes I just have to create something different. I don’t do many paintings of abstracts, I find them difficult to do. I don’t want to have to write a long explanation of what the painting means. I love all sorts of art, but it’s hard to pin down what would be my favorite. This autumn /spring painting is acrylic on canvas. With colours that represent the seasons. The shapes are meant to represent middle age, complexity, confusion, a city scape, and the spring is simple nature. See I said I hate describing what I’m doing, and yet that’s exactly what I’ve just done! Maybe I should do a Winter/summer one?

Cat portrait

Posted on February 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, favourite painting, Fine Art, Tuxedo cat, weeping fig, Windowledge5 Comments

I do love sharing this painting of one of my old cats. It’s about twenty or twenty five years old. Just after we moved to our current house. She used to love sitting behind the flowerpot at the top of the stairs. By the way the weeping fig grew to five foot tall before we had to rehomed it because it got too big for the space in the kitchen where it had to be moved too because it got too big for the windowledge. Thank goodness the cat didn’t grow that big!

Sold, Heron

Posted on February 9, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Bird, Colour, Fine Art, Heron, Life, Nature, Painting, Reeds, Sold9 Comments

Got a nice surprise this morning, I’ve sold another small painting (long and thin). It had been for sale at the Arts and Minds Gallery at Harper Street in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. As usual it’s lovely to feel that someone has taken it into their heart.

This was a playful piece. I started by painting some weeds and rushes, and only decided to add a bird, this Heron, because it fitted in with the shape of the canvas.

Next? I might paint some gentle landscapes or flowers, but play with the style again, not forgetting the industrial heritage of the area.

Sold a painting

Posted on February 1, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Beach, Calm, Fine Art, Life, Memory, Painting, Relaxed, Rocks, Sand, Sea19 Comments

I sold this today, only for a few pounds, but it was my first for 2023. I’m not making a great deal of money out of my art, but I know that this will be going to a good home. I didn’t get a photo of it fully completed because my phone camera is playing up but it’s a pretty good representation of the final piece. I didn’t really think about it but it also made me feel calm when I looked at it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Acrylic on canvas