Today’s art lunch

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art lunch, Chatting, Discussion, Friends, Fun, Light, Lunch, Photos, Sunlight, Talk, Tired4 Comments

Today’s art lunch was spicy vegetable soup served with chats about funding streams for artists and how to apply for them. Discussing organising workshops. Chatting about doodling. Working out about clearing a work space at the Etruria Artists warehouse.

We were serenaded by lovely jazz music on my friends record player, so stylish. The light was streaming into the living room so I took photos of the sunlight shining on the wall and painting patterns on to it. It was a fun afternoon but I came home shattered and fell fast asleep. I’m struggling to stay awake while writing this!

Another WIP

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Birds, Blue, Green, Iridescent, Kingfisher, Nature, Orange, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

After finishing my ‘green people’ I’m about to start work again on this kingfisher painting. I intend to try and leave the background quite blurred and try and get a lot of detail into the Kingfisher. They really are the most beautiful of birds, with iridescent plumage. It’s acrylic on canvas as usual. About 10 x 14 inches? Maybe slightly bigger than that. Might do some more to it today.

I think you can see these down on the river Trent, although I don’t know if there is too much fish there for them.

Fruit

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chain saw, Colour, Exhibition, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Painting, Photo, Subjects, Tree2 Comments

Just found out I have been offered an exhibition at the Waiting room gallery in April. The theme will be gardening, green men and women and spring, but I also want to do colourful work. I’ve been going around looking for subjects in the house as the garden isn’t growing yet, just a few buds.

The light was streaming in through the kitchen window and illuminating all the fruit my hubby bought yesterday. So I took a photo of it.

I will try and get some more interesting shots later. At the moment a neighbour is cutting down a tree, so I’m staying out the way. The sound of chainsawing doesn’t fill me with confidence!

Bad week!

Posted on March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cold, Ill, Stats, Tired, WordPressLeave a comment

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Oh what a week! My stats are down because I haven’t been writing much here. That’s because I’ve been ill. And that’s because someone in our panto cast decided to come in with a bad cold and proceeded to cough and sneeze over the rest of us. So grrrr!

I’ve finally started to feel a bit better today, taken a couple of paintings up to a local gallery and come home. Phew, I’m tired now!

Jug photo

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Floral pattern, Jug, Longport, Orange, Photo, Pottery, Sprig molded?, Staffordshire, Still life, Stoke-on trent, Waiting room galleryLeave a comment

I was visiting the Waiting room gallery today to take in my two new paintings. I saw this jug (is it sprig molded?)

It looked classical, it might end up being a pottery painting. The dark green really brings out the colour of the jug, while the shadows help give it a three dimensionality. The shelf it is on is white painted wood which gives it a nice texture. It’s owned by my friend Alison. I think she said it might be a Portmeirion piece although there is no backstamp or other marks on its base.

Taken in natural light from the gallery window on my mobile phone.

New green man

Posted on March 1, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Based on Sam Fender, Design, Elf, Green man, Leaves, PaintingLeave a comment

A new green man is emerging, the face is based on a photo of someone called Sam Fender? He’s a musician apparently. I liked his angular, thin face. It looks rather elf like. I’m working on the tones and shades. Will try and finish it tomorrow.

I’m trying to get this and the self portrait finished for international women’s day next weekend. I haven’t been doing much but I feel like I’m emerging from a long black tunnel. Anyway it’s after 2am.i wil take my cough medicine and get off to bed.

Green Woman self portrait

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Painting, Playing, self portraitLeave a comment

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Suddenly I’m painting again! I decided to do something with this picture. It was only roughly worked out. I decided I wanted to make a self portrait as a green woman. I used a photo of myself on my phone and overlaid leaves onto it. I don’t know if it’s finished but I liked trying to bring out the shaping and shadows on it.

Sitting in the living room, I should go down the studio, but my cold is worse. Anyway I will work on another partially painted picture.

Unearthing old art

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Life, Micro poem, Pattern, Poem, Poetry2 Comments

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A drawing turned into a pattern

Played with it

Distorted it..

It could be cotton,

Or printed silk.

Looking out

Posted on February 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Brain, Design, Face, Looking out, Mind, Painting, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Painting from a few years ago. It’s one that I did about imagination and the mind. I don’t know where it went. It may have been sold. The foreground is meant to represent axons and synapses in the brain. Thought happens, but how do you describe it? How you depict it? The eyes are supposed to be the window to the mind.

And how do we know the mind is in charge. Only a few centuries ago, the heart was seen as the centre of emotions. Hence the phrases like “letting your heart rule your head”.

I’ve done similar pictures in watercolour pencils, but they are probably in a sketchbook somewhere. I’ve got too much stuff.

Dog drawing

Posted on February 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital drawing, Dog, Dog portrait, Labrador, Retriever, Sketch, Wet in wetLeave a comment

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This is about four years old too. I think I drew it in ArtRage oils, but I don’t really remember. I like the way I managed to get a flowing, wet in wet effect. I don’t generally copy photos for my digital drawings, but I think I remember working from a picture for this? It’s either a labrador or a golden retriever? Eople who own them will be able to tell the difference.

I’m looking at old images and using a colouring in app to try and break through my current artistic block. I’m beginning to recognise this is a winter thing with me. I hope once there is a bit more bright sunlight I will rise like lazarus ( OK that’s a bit over the top!). But at least start creating again!

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