New paintings and regular art updates.
A little dove of peace across a stylised planet earth. I tidied up the beak after taking this photo. Another miniature painting. I decided to do something more abstract. It’s based on Picasso’s Dove of peace. Just blue white and black acrylic on tiny canvas..
Enough!
Don’t dip your paintbrush
In your hot, sweet tea!
The colour isn’t good
And it makes stains
On your teeth
Or canvas
You can’t paint over
Makes it taste of oil
Or leaves a green scum!
I’ve often paled
On drinking ‘green’
Or ‘red’ tea!
Coffees the same
Not good
For me
Or thee!
I’m struggling with this imagined landscape. I want to get the reflections realistic and it’s just a bit too splodgy. The painting itself is about 5×4 inches approximately. I was trying to paint a vaguely historical scene, but that would need smoke belching out of the chimneys and a canal barge. Still I can do more work…
A couple of blue vases and a bright orange sandy beach with water wending it’s way down to the sea. My tee shirt is splodged with paint because I keep dropping the little canvases which is annoying me! I’ve also noticed I’ve got paint on my phone screen! Luckily it’s just a tiny drop. I’m also painting a red sailed boat in a sunset. Hope people might buy a few on Saturday. It’s never going to be lucrative. Maybe I should join some of them together as a collage? Anyway my painting block is broken. I hope to catch up on other projects now I’ve started…. Watch out for more updates (except my memory on WordPress media is getting full again, so some of my older posts might lose their photos).
My friend sent me a photo of some alliums and it reminded me of a firework. The tiny flowers look like stars. This is a bigger painting (4x4inches) and it comes with a little wooden frame which I might paint.
It’s a work in progress. I need to improve the details. It’s getting dark in the house so I will have to turn on the lights to continue. I also want to paint some more unusual images…
Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was hold. So I did digital finger painting! I added clasped hands to an abstract background that I had already drawn in a digital app called sketchbook.
A photo of a lion at Saltaire by my friend Timothy Hargreaves.
I think I remember him telling me that the lions at Trafalgar square in London were made by the same sculptor. There are on the hill going down to the entrance of Salts Mill in Saltaire, Yorkshire, and they look extremely magnificent in the Spring sunshine. I wish we had sculptures like this nearby. It’s very impressive and I think Victorian?
What are you good at?
Paintings on display yesterday.
If I had to say what I was good at number one would be painting and art. Fourth years ago I went to college to do Fine Art, then I recently completed a course in illustration.
Art makes me happy. I love to paint acrylics on canvas and also watercolours. To me art is manipulating liquids or solids on a flat or shaped surfaces. I am good at using paint, pastels, ink, wax, pencils, felt pens. I also enjoy creating images digitally. I’m lucky to have good hand eye coordination. So I can copy most things, I’m also fairly good at creating abstract images. I am very lucky to have art training. There are lots of skills that I have been privileged to learn.
Whatever I do I will always create art. It is part of my DNA I think!
Why not come and enjoy a visit to our Art exhibition. Free entry and cake! If you are at a loose end tomorrow come and browse. You may find something you like x
There is free entry to the Orme Art Group Exhibition. It’s on tomorrow at the Whitfield centre on Whitfield Avenue in Newcastle under Lyme. 11am till 4pm. The bottom photo is my table of small paintings. And the photo above it shows two boards with some of my larger paintings exhibited at the same time. I have finished five little paintings today, adding extra colour to one, a cat to another, and generally tidying them up. Then I put the paintings up on the boards, people seemed to like them. X
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