WIP, Cat on a bookcase.

Posted on February 26, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Cat, cat on a bookcase, Fine Art, Painting, Sleeping, tabby cat, Wip6 Comments

Resting on my chair that I use as an easle, a seascape in the background and then a small cat painting I’m fighting with. Either the cats head is too large or the leg and body are too small.

I’m not sure about the book sizes, they might be too small too. Sorry its dark, I need a photo in daylight. The chair it is on is cluttered with mugs, the TV remotes are there too. I need to get them out of the way, will probably continue tomorrow.

I’m so tired it’s just taken me 3 attempts to type in the tags for this post before I managed to save them. I keep nodding off!

Seascape

Posted on February 22, 2025February 22, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, art workshop, Emulsion, Fine Art, Ink, Jo Watson, Landscape, Painting, Palette knife, Seascape, Sky, WorkshopLeave a comment

Painting of a seascape done at a Jo Watson workshop. It’s not finished but I ran out of time. The top photo was taken in bright sunshine, the second at home in a darker space. Interesting how the second one has warmer tones, but it’s exactly the same painting. I went a bit Bob Ross, but I’m after more of a Turner feeling. Acrylic, ink, emulsion on canvas. Using brushes, palette knife and scraper card. Although I might have added orange later.?

Owl stare

Posted on February 14, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Canvas, Fine Art, Little owl, Painting, staring eyes, Tiny painting, weavingLeave a comment

A little owl on a little canvas. I have several tiny paintings in a box because I’ve basically given up craft fairs. I don’t have the energy or health to do them anymore. I will have to see how I feel later in the year.

You can tell it’s a small canvas because of the size of the weave of the material. It’s an acrylic on canvas. I love painting but I’ve hit an artists block situation. X

Pine tree

Posted on February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, pine tree, pottery design, Spode, temple, too dark, Willow patternLeave a comment

From a painting I did of the Chinese willow pattern I did a few years ago. Based on a couple of Spode platters. It took a long time to paint the details. It’s an acrylic on canvas. This is only part of it, concentrating on a temple and pine tree. (I think). I’m sorry it’s so dark, it was copied off my screen saver background and it’s really far too dark. But anyway, I just wanted to post a random piece of my art. I’ll have to try and lighten it.

Found texture again

Posted on December 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art style, Design, digitally adjusted, Leaves, Painting, Pattern, Photodirector, Sunset, TextureLeave a comment

I went back to an app I like because I had used it to texturise images in the past. I’d stopped using it (photodirector) because a lot of the options had changed and I couldn’t find the one that did this (adding wavy patterns to my original artwork). But I had another look and found what I wanted under “art style” I think. You then have varied options to alter the texture and colour. This was my favourite stye. The other thing is you can go back and put it through the same or another texturiser again. So pleased I found it.

Quick portrait

Posted on November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, Fun, Harly-Quin, Portrait, Work in progress7 Comments

A friend said he would sit for a quick portrait as long as he would not be.identifiable! I did a painting in bright blocks of colour. It’s a small acrylic on board
At the end of the session he took it home. It’s called Harly-Quin.

Sunset

Posted on November 25, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Fine Art, oblong, Painting, Small painting, Work in progress2 Comments

While I was at the group art exhibition yesterday I did some painting. One of them was this small oblong painting of an apple tree at sunset. This is a little work in progress. I’m trying not to muddy the colours. The sky needed to be light and fresh. More to do? More leaves, maybe a little better blending of the blues. Acrylic on canvas.

Leaves, WIP

Posted on November 6, 2024November 6, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Autumn, Colours, Decisions, Fine Art, Leaves, Painting, Progress, Work in progress1 Comment

I went out and picked up a few leaves today as there hadn’t been much rain lately and they are starting to turn interesting colours. I might paint the background as a puddle with sky and clouds reflected in it. I will have to consider it. Acrylic on canvas, work in progress….

Pumpkin time

Posted on October 23, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Art group, Food, food festival, Halloween, Painting, Pumpkin6 Comments

Decided to paint a pumpkin today. Acrylic on canvas. It’s for a food festival that’s coming up, our art group is doing pictures of vegetables and fruit to illustrate the theme

This took about 2 hours to paint. It’s a little bigger than A4. It’s sort of a mixture of halloween and nature.

Tiny paintings

Posted on October 17, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, craft sale, Etruria Industrial museum, mini canvases, Painting, Stoke-on trent4 Comments

Some mini paintings including abstracts, I’m trying to get some work done for a small stall at Etruria Industrial museum in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire this weekend. It’s the last steaming of the princess engine this year. I haven’t done anything for months but I finally got some miniature canvases so decided to have a go.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Acrylic on canvas