New paintings and regular art updates.
Paint blue sky and take photos, take photos of different areas and duplicate and mix them up. Colours are a mixture of ultra marine, cerulean blue and zinc white.
It’s the top half of a painting of spode on a sunny day .There isn’t much progress yet so I decided to this rather than show you a progress picture. I’ve just been too busy.
Anyway more to come I have a new painting to start of Jupiter to get done by Friday … Help
I’m just starting to block in some brickwork on a painting. I will be painting in the mortar between the bricks to make it more realistic but I decided to play with the image using the layout app that comes with instagram. I quite like the result.
I posted it to Instagram and a friend really liked it.
My question is how would you turn it into a throw. I don’t think printing it onto a surface would work. I think it would need to be woven.
Any ideas? Ideally I want to meet someone who could change my designs into fabric. I was once contacted by an American company, but I checked their website and there was quite a bit of dissatisfaction with them delivering goods and also paying their artists…boo hiss! So I didn’t go with them.
Playing with pattern again, I created this digital drawing of what could be a paisley patterned scarf.
I like the idea of an intensely coloured swirl at the center and a red border. But the outer edges would be black so it would appear to be floating in space, in fact if I added a few tiny dots it would look even more like that.
The simple power of computers is amazing. People have such creativity at their fingertips.
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They came out quite well considering that I’ve been laid up with a cold and sore throat for most of the week.
I passed them on to there owner but was feeling quite rough and then spent the rest of the afternoon worrying if they liked them.
Not very professional. Perhaps next time if I’m ill I should wait until I’m better before doing this again.
Still feeling off so I’m having a bit of a rest.
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Once, many years ago, I was young. I was looking at some old photos today and came across this article, from when I was on my foundation art course. I clearly wanted to be a painter even then. I think I was slightly amazed to be chosen. I guess no one else was willing to have their picture taken. I’d never been in an article for a paper before so it was quite strange, especially seeing my face looking back at me. There was another article in the same paper with some of my friends so I wasn’t a total show off!
The college had a rag week when people did mad things. Our town had a new statue of a hippo in the town square for some reason, so a group of students made a pink papier mache gorilla to be its friend. Another lot roped themselves together and pretended to climb up the local hill (almost flat) on their hands and knees….
Wild days
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Instead of just finger drawing in an app I’m trying to get a more realistic portrait using a Sketch app and a stylus . I am finding that using the stylus stops the slipping that makes more irregular lines that happens when I try to draw with my finger alone.
The drawing is being made up from the airbrush tool and I’m changing the thickness and opacity depending on the thickness of the lines I want to draw.
It’s again a work in progress so we will see how it turns out.
One problem with being ill is that sometimes my energy levels are not good. I’m often tired, and if I get a cold like I have now I just feel washed out. I end up looking at the canvas instead of painting it.
That being said I’ve promised to finish these two this week. They have come on well, but I think they will need daylight so that I can see the colours properly.
So I will take my time but work hard to finish them. Until I’m happy with them.
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While painting the autumn woman I started this. It’s three long thin canvases and I’m trying to work out how to paint the new patterns on Jupiter on them.
The latest photos of the planet are amazing and I think it’s going to be a real challenge This is going to be old fashioned painting, not fluid painting that has become popular. One of the paintings will be exhibited and the other two will be painted during a couple of open days down at Spode Studios.
With luck I will be able to do this!
Taking payments? It’s all new to me. I have just spent days trying to sort out an account I opened years ago but then never had need to use it.
I finally decided to bite the bullet and set it up. 1st problem, it asked me to add a bank account. So I did then it asked me to set up a direct debit. But I didn’t understand why as I wanted to receive a payment, not make one. So I deleted the account then realised I wanted to use it after all. It took days to get that sorted after finally talking to a person not a computer.
So that was it. Except. Now I have taken a small payment but I don’t know how to transfer it to the bank. I think its gone but I’m not sure. All I can say is I wish there was a manual for this sort of thing. I feel like I’m floundering around in thick fog .Things to do but I don’t necessarily know how. Maybe I should try and get on a marketing course!
Wip, work in progress. Someone has asked me for a painting of a green woman in green, brown and gold. I’m letting a little bit of red creep in. And turquoise too.
I want to model the shape to make it a bit more 3d so I will need to spend more time on it but it’s come on a lot considering I only started it today!
I actually went to the studio despite having a cold. Once I was in there I pout all the heating on. Snug in there but freezing in the corridors Plus I’m planning a painting of Jupiter. We’ll a tryptich actually. 3 long canvases.. Photos to follow.
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