It’s up!

Posted on May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Centre space, Eleanora street, Exhibition, Fun, Life, Painting, Spode, Spode Heritage visitors centre, Stoke, Stoke-on trent5 Comments

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I’m so pleased with my exhibition which opens tomorrow. Darren and Sarah who run the Centre Space couldn’t have been more helpful.

I will post some photos of the paintings tomorrow when they are on show. I was pleased with the way the exhibition looks and the careful way that it was put up. I hope I get a few commissions out of it.

Will people understand my passion for painting green men? Or my love if planets and astronomy? My quirky ideas about earth, air, fire and water and a series of national and international animals and birds?

I hope whatever people like there will be something that will pique their interest. Like a victorian collector of curiosities I enjoy the odd, interesting, and fun.

Morning Glory

Posted on May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Green man, Life, Morning glory, Painting, PlantsLeave a comment

Just a little painting of a green man with morning glory flowers. I thought it would be nice to add some bright colour to this. I chose morning glory because its a climbing plant that scrambles up and opens it’s flowers for a day. The flowers then wither to be replaced by new ones the next day.

Mirror plates

Posted on May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Exhibition, Mirror plates, Paintings, Phillips posi drive screws, Preparations4 Comments

Ouch… I’ve just finished putting mirror plates on the back of my paintings. You have to make holes in the back of canvas’s wooden supports and then screw them in place with two screws so they can be attached to gallery walls.

The problem is that the screws I have are small and have Phillips cross headed heads on them. The screws are made of harder metal than the screw driver and consequently the head of the screw driver had worn away. You can’t see this clearly on the photos though.

The the screw driver does not sit properly in the head of the screw, this means that they are really difficult to drive into the back of the canvas. I had to do this on 14 canvases, so 28 mirror plates and 56 screws. The wooden frames on canvases are not uniform, some are made with harder wood than others. In a couple of cases I had to use shorter screws because they would not screw all the way into the wood.

Now I have to list all the paintings so that I can take them down to the gallery on the morning.

Finished Nankeen Kestrel

Posted on May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animal, Australian, Bird, Environment, Life, Nankeen KestrelLeave a comment

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I’ve worked myself to a standstill with this. I’m getting rather tired but I’ve got a lot more to do so I won’t stick around for long. Just having a breather.

Finished Hare

Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Finished, Hare, Harebells, LifeLeave a comment

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I’ve finally finished the Hare painting. I’ve added the Harebells. I’m not sure about the background. I may play with it tomorrow, but enough for one day’s work. I’m also not sure about the proportions of its head…. I’m too tired to think.

Hare minus bells

Posted on May 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animal portrait, Animals, Art, Countryside, Environment, Hare, Harebell, Life, Nature, Painting, Photo from a magazine, WildlifeLeave a comment

I went out this morning to go to the Orme Art group. We were supposed to do limited pallette paintings, white, red, yellow ochre and black. I cheated and used some cerulean blue in the background. I want to add harebells, a beautiful bell shaped flower found in the countryside. The image is an amalgum of a photo from a magazine that I’d taken a photo of and a photo off the Internet. I’m not sure if I will finish this or any of the other paintings at the moment. Every time I feel better I do stuff, then I feel ill again. I guess I’m trying too hard. But I wanted some really strong paintings for the exhibition. I hope they look good. Anyway I’m having a rest for half an hour.

More wobbly bricks

Posted on May 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, another painting, Art, Bricks, Landscape, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Wobbly bricks6 Comments

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Painting bricks is hard. Especially when the image is tiny. I’m trying to get this finished, but so many bricks, I don’t like drawing them out with straight lines, so each one is a bit wobbly. We shall see….

Also it’s hard to work off a phone. I need to get photos I’m working on printed off.

Plus, I need to leave bits of the painting out. I don’t want metal fencing on the picture, or the striped barrier. But I will add the hanging baskets and flower tubs.

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Exhibition

Posted on May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Centre space, Exhibition, opening night, Painting, Preview, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Stoke-upon-TrentLeave a comment

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Next week!

My exhibition. At centre space, the Spode Heritage visitors centre, Eleanora street, Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent

Preview night is on the Wednesday between 7 and 9pm. If you are around come along.

Hard work

Posted on May 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Exhibition, Green, Hard work, Hubby, Keep painting, Life, Monochrome, Painting, Portrait2 Comments

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Progress… Just a quick update.

Using various greens, it’s going to be monochromatic, no other colours but white, greens and some paynes grey.

May be finished by the weekend.

Started him

Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Fun, Green, Green hubby, Green man, Humour, Laughter, Life, Painting, Portrait4 Comments

Yes I’m painting my husband as a green man. This is about two hours in. I’m limiting the pallette to only greens white and dark grey. I think I’m getting a reasonable likeness to him although his nose may be a little long and his face is a bit narrow. The cheeky eyes staring out make me want to laugh, so often he’s serious, he’s got a lot on his mind. Also I rarely paint faces on this scale, it’s quite a big canvas so any mistakes are magnified. As you can see I have not sketched this out except initially in a darker green. I’m adjusting positions of his features as I go along. However I’ve stopped for a rest and to charge my phone as it is going flat and I’m holding the phone to work from. Modern day painting eh? And yes his nose needs to be bigger.

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