Varnish!

Posted on September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Annoying, Fine Art, flaky paint, Hair, Paint, Painting, Varnish, Wet4 Comments

Argh! I started putting eyelets on the back of my paintings and the paint started to flake off! I don’t know why, but I think because it’s a different type of canvas. So I repainted the patches where it came off. Then I had the ‘brilliant’ idea to varnish it.

First get the top off the varnish bottle. It’s one of those push down and twist types. That took half an hour. Then paint it on. But one of my hairs fell on it! I tried to lift off the hair and the paint flaked again. So, a few more dabs of paint mixed in with the varnish. It was due in today. It might not get there! And I’m left with gummy hands.

Done

Posted on September 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Finished, Motion, Painting, Princess engine, Spinning, Tired2 Comments

Red and green spins in front of my eyes. Trying to capture that motion. Almost three thirty am. I’m tired but happy. Signed and dated.

Almost done

Posted on September 16, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Etruria Industrial museum, govenor, Life, live steam, Painting, Princess engineLeave a comment

Two fifteen am, almost done, need a rest and to let the paint dry a bit. It’s acrylic so it won’t take long. Some of this is wrong, but if you don’t see the original photo you won’t know! It will probably be finished by Three o’clock.

Engine WIP

Posted on September 15, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Movement, Painting, princess steam engine, Red and greenLeave a comment

Forth painting in progress. Trying to capture the movement of a fly wheel and govenor as it spins. I’m working from a photo I took of the Princess Steam engine, which was running at Etruria Industrial Museum last weekend. Acrylic on canvas.

Poppy and wheat

Posted on September 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, agriculture, Life, Painting, Plants, Poppy, poppy and wheat, wheat2 Comments

Finished at 23.05 today! I’ve done two others and I have one more to do. I’m getting tired. I decided to make the flower quite tight but the wheat and background much more impressionistic. I hope it’s subtle and not weak looking. X

Having a rest

Posted on September 15, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Hard work, Paint, Poppies, poppy paintings, Resting, Work in progress2 Comments

Three of four paintings I need to finish by tomorrow! Eek. Two paintings with poppies, plus a bottle kiln and sky. I’m also half way through the painting of a steam engine. I could have done this yesterday but I got involved in something else. Pressure? What pressure! ❤️

Underpainting

Posted on September 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Background, Blocking in, Painting, sketched paint, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’ve started the poppy and wheat painting. Just primary colours to start. Then I will build it up. I might use some gold paint for the wheat seed heads. I’ve got to add green but the paint is still wet. Not much to see here yet. Lots of work to do on it.

Got in!

Posted on September 13, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Barn owl, Bird, Brampton museum and art gallery, Fine Art, Flight, Life, Night, Open exhibition, Owl, Painting, Stars8 Comments

Just got a phone call. I’ve got my barn owl painting into the Brampton Open exhibition. I’m very pleased. I’ve got to pick the other one up but that’s OK, they were completely different styles so it gave me a bit more of a chance depending on what the selectors wanted. It will be up at the Brampton Museum and art gallery in Newcastle under Lyme from 24th September 2022 for a month.

Govenor

Posted on September 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Etruria Industrial museum, Fine Art, governor, Gravity, Speed, Work in progressLeave a comment

I need to get some paintings done by Friday for a new art venue. I should have gone to choir practice tonight but I’d started painting this and I didn’t want to stop. It’s based on a photo I took at Etruria Industrial Museum yesterday and shows a governor spinning. The two round weights govern the speed of the engines rotation. The faster it goes, the more the weights are pushed outwards, but they are pulled down and inwards by gravity which regulates its speed. I will try and get movement into it.

Industry

Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, History, Ideas, Industrial archaeology, Industrial heritage, Jessie Shirley's bone and flint mill, PaintingLeave a comment

Etruria Industrial Museum is open this weekend. This is a museum that houses Jessy Shirleys Mill. It houses a steam engine that was used to grind bone and flint to be added to clay to make fine bone china. I want to take some photos so I can do some paintings if the machinery. The mill is ‘steamed’ once a month in the summer. They usually have events running alongside the steaming. I am not sure but they might have classic cars this weekend?

Etruria is a part of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire and is named for Etruscan pottery which copied the Italian style. It was made by Josiah Wedgwood.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Acrylic on canvas