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Artists
Who are the biggest influences in your life?
Of all the influences on my life various artists stand out as the main contenders. These include in no particular order:
Michaelangelo, Leonardo Davinci, Berthe Morissette,the French Impressionists a lot of the surrealist movement, David Hockney, Maggie Hambling, and so many more.
I don’t paint in any of their manners, some of their techniques are totally beyond me. But I do feel excited by their work.
Colours, patterns, shapes, the way they deal with light and shade. Perception, composition, knowledge, understanding. Looking and learning. Painting is a wonderful skill, I wish more people practiced it.
I cannot say that
Paintings for a friend
Over several months a friend has been collecting some of my smaller paintings. She sent me this photo of them yesterday and it struck me how varied they are!
The galleon painting has gold paint on it to give a feeling of the sunlight reflecting back up onto the reverse of the sails.
The small painting of the woman in the woods was taken from a photo from a friend, I loved the atmospheric feeling of it and tried to evoke the colours of autumn.
The dragon is based on an image that I had created for my college piece on the mythology of dragons. I had drawn and designed a children’s book and this was one of the ideas I used for it.
I’m so pleased my art is being appreciated, I love being creative and it keeps me going. X
Prompt was making
#bandofsketchers prompt was making. I’m making paintings by gluing little canvas boards in frames and painting different ideas for a craft fair on Sunday. This is an abstract, it could represent a stone or mineral.
Quick fox
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog…..
A statement that contains all the letters of the alphabet and also was used to improve typing skills I think?
This is a tiny miniature, it needs more detail, less splodges. I will try and get more of a furry look to it. I might add a bit of blue to the snowy background so that it looks more realistic. Only 6 more to paint!
New paintings
Experimenting again with 4inch square canvas boards and frames…
I’m just noodling and doodling some different ideas. Abstract and abstracted landscape. Then I’ve got a few miniatures to work on….
Got some!
I went to get some tiny canvases today. I went back to the craft shop I got them from previously and spoke to the lady that runs it. She said she hadn’t been able to get anymore of them, they don’t seem to be making them now? I asked if she had other small canvases so she directed me to the right aisle. As I looked through the canvases there were 5 packets of 2 canvases per packet! I was really glad that I’d gone and looked and not taken her word for it!
I only sell them for £2 each so it’s not much of a markup. I’m effectively only getting 90 pence for something that can take a few hours painting. But I like the idea of sharing my art.
Need more miniatures!
I’ve sold half of my miniatures in the last couple of days, I’m only charging £2 and the canvases are 80 pence so it’s hardly a goldmine, but I’m enjoying people liking them! So now I need more of them to paint. I’ll try and get some done this week!
I think they make nice Christmas presents or stocking fillers. X
Waves
I had these two paintings together and I realised they both represent waves. Water waves in my copy of Hokusai’s Great Wave of Kanagawa, and the waves in the atmosphere of Jupiter with it’s Great Red spot (and they are both ‘Great’ too). If I don’t sell them I am going to hang them together if I can find the space. The Hokusai on the left flowing into Jupiter on the right. X
Open day went well
Not my studio….
It’s my neighbours across the corridor. I wish I had that view but my studio is window free, which means it’s easier to heat! A few people came in and said how toasty and warm it was. I sold a couple of paintings from there and a few miniatures in the makers market. But most of all I liked asking people if they were artists, or if they enjoyed it. I enthused to parents to get their children involved in art. It was a good day.
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