Just some cheerful colours from my early flowering Christmas cactuses.
I hope they brighten your day.
Today I’m having a bit of a rest.
Christmas cactus
Tag: Design
Twigs and blossom
My winter woman has turned into an early spring woman snow is still on the ground but cherry blossom flowers have sprung from the trees twigs and branches, it feels like an old surrealist painting, and I don’t object to that but I wish I coukd do better details .
This has been a fight! Hours of messing about with the shading and shaping of the branches. It’s not finished yet…..but I need a rest. Night all.
Winter woman
A couple of years ago I did a painting called winter man, two trees entwined to make a face looking out at you. Now I’m working on a profile view of a woman. I hope I can get the colours right and I need to add snow on the branches and shadows on the ground….. More to follow
Finished
Green brown woman is finished. Ready to go to her new home. I tried to get a 3d effect with light and dark tones. One thing that happens when I try to imagine a subject is that it needs to look at least slightly like it could exist. With this I wanted to try and make the leaves look like they were real, but when you imagine things it does all depend on what you remember, how it’s put together and what colours it has.
Anyway I want the customer to be happy especially since it has taken a few weeks to paint…. Now all I have to do is finish Jupiter before this weekend!
Progress!
She’s almost done. I’m just trying to get a bit more of a 3d effect. I’m liking the more sombre colours but I’m putting a glimmer of gold into this. The face is quite controlled, I’m trying to go for a medieval look. Hope you like it (and the person who has commissioned it)
Odd things
They are only some shells and a glove, but they don’t half look odd if you manipulate the photos. More organic? Strange, like octopuses or sculpture?
Never avoid the odd, I you can find all sorts of things in it, on it, through it.
Just fling an image at the screen, catch and twist it. Photo hop it or use another generic app! Don’t be scared be adventurous. You can have a good time playing with photos.
Green and brown woman
Progress takes time and thought,
Progress means learning,
Finding your way,
Looking back as well as forward,
Learn from your mistakes,
Find your technique,,
Give time a chance and
Catch up with yourself.
Mind is strange,
Mind knows and sees.
Mind gets ahead, sees a solution
Before you know
How to
Do it
Paint it.
Grow and progress
I was just going to write a short note about how this is progressing but it turned into a little poem. Better get back to work.
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Throw
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.
Scarf design
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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Kaleidoscopic
I’ve had a really busy day so I haven’t had time to do much on line. Just been rehearsing again.
Anyway just for fun I bought a kaleidoscope last week. Instead of using a digital app this is a real tube with bits of plastic in the end. You turn the end of the tube and the bits move about and the pattern changes.
So I stuck the lens of the camera against the eyepiece and took photos… These are the results. Fun to see patterns that I last saw when I was 6 or 7.
Reminisence is something you do more as you get older.
Mallaband-Brown 