Old painting

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Apple, apples coffee house, Art, Fine Art, Life, Painting, Proserpine2 Comments

My friend Apple has a restaurant and also a coffee shop. The shop has been closed for a while because of the pandemic, but now things are calming down she’s trying to reopen it. After three years she’s putting a lot of work into creating a social and friendly space for people to meet up. She’s given herself a month to get things sorted out. I was talking to her and found this photo of an old painting I did based on the painting Proserpine by one of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. I can’t remember the actual artist.

What I did was to try and copy the painting and add an apple instead of a pomegranate to relate to my friends name. You can’t see but I also painted Apples coffee house at the top right on a sign. Sorry the photos a bit blurry!

Insect puppet!

Posted on June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Etruria canal festival, Fine Art, Puppet, puppeteers, Sculpture, skilled2 Comments

I think this man sized puppet at Etruria canal festival a couple of weeks ago was meant to be a preying mantis. I didn’t get the details of the puppet theatre company but they are obviously very skilled makers! I think this is absolutely beautiful (sorry if you don’t like insects), the colours are amazing and the way it is painted with such great detail is a tour de force. If anyone knows the name of the puppiteers please let me know, put it in the comments. Then I will edit this post and include it here. X

Tree spirits

Posted on June 17, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Commission, Faces, Fine Art, Painting acrylic on canvas, Pareidolia, Tree spirits2 Comments

An old commission from a few years ago called tree spirits. Another experimental piece. It is part of my pareidolia, seeing images of faces or animals in objects. The orange, green and purple were used to give it a feeling of dawn or sunset.

Degree shows

Posted on June 10, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged BA honours, Degree shows, excellent, final day, Fine Art, Interesting, Painting, Sculpture, Staffordshire UniversityLeave a comment

Today was the last day of the Fine Art BA (honours) degree shows, and art foundation show at Staffordshire University. It’s an annual event and I have tried to get there most years since I graduated from there myself.

I think this year the body of work was excellent. There seemed to be a resurgence of painting and there was some beautiful art. There was quirky, humourous and poignant art too. Dotted throughout the show were “Mushroom Creatures” for a piece called “the oddity of connection”. They were small felted wool figures with mushroom heads or hairstyles. Very unusual. A bit like mythological creatures, I think they had won first place in the degree show.

I’m so glad I was reminded to go to see the shows. And lovely to see such a variety of styles, it takes me right back to when I was there all those years ago.

My tribute

Posted on June 9, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, at peace, Fine Art, Finished, Life, Portrait, Sister, Small painting, Twin4 Comments

Tribute to my lost sister, as a young woman. I promised it but it’s taken months to finish. Perhaps I can finally move on? It sat half done, staring at me. But I feel she is at rest. Art has always been my freedom. I can work through my feelings when I do it. Life has to go on, even though its sometimes really tough.

Finished!

Posted on June 9, 2023June 9, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Morris Man / Steam Punk, Phil?, Portrait, TiredLeave a comment

I could have continued to adjust this but I’m tired out and my arm is shaking too much. The entry date is Monday for the three counties open exhibition with Keele University in Staffordshire. I didn’t want to leave it till the last minute. Wish me luck!

Are you bored yet?

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, analogue fun, Design, Digital, Fine Art, Painting, Style, Work in progressLeave a comment

Adding some swirliness to mimic a digital style I like. Why shouldn’t digital and analogue ideas merge? I’m not channelling Van Gogh, just having a bit of fun with texture. I’m going to calm down the Green glasses and add some silver or gold to them… I need to work out how the sky will look. But now… A rest!

More splodging

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, details, Fine Art, Painting, Sketching, Texture, Work in progressLeave a comment

Getting placement and colours right. I like this composition because it has red and green complementary colours. But with yellows and blues to jazz it up. I need to sort out the chin and the fence. It needs to go backwards and the face to come forwards. There is detail on the gate and face I haven’t added yet, but the paint is wet and I don’t want it to become too blurry.

On my easle

Posted on June 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fine Art, Initial sketch, morris man, Portrait, steam punk, three counties openLeave a comment

I’ve decided to do a slightly abstract version of my photo of the steam punk morris man. If I can get it finished in time I will enter it for this years three counties open. I haven’t got anything else available so I’m taking a risk. Entry is due by 12th June, do wish me luck! Further images to follow.

Art fair

Posted on June 3, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, art and craft fair, Fine Art, footfall, Friendly, Fun, Life, Miniatures, Paintings, sale8 Comments

My little table was packed with paintings and a few glass necklaces today. I sold a few things, including one of the necklaces.

There wasn’t a lot of footfall and people were looking but not really buying. I guess they don’t have their shopping heads on at a health gym. They want to sit down in the cafe after doing their workouts!

The company was pleasant though. I had a lovely chat with the young woman who had the stall next to me. She was really friendly and we chatted about craft and art fairs and whether to try and get cards made from some of my paintings. She certainly had a lot of work, and was selling greetings cards, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pompoms, and other lovely creations. It helped the time pass to chat with such a friendly person.

My stall was dwarfed by the other people’s. It’s only three or four feet across, and with everything lying flat my stall didn’t have as much ‘oomph’ as some of the others. I might try and get some stands for the paintings. I had some metal ones I’ve used before but they are too heavy and sharp.

Mallaband-Brown

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