Back at the studio

Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Art, Back at spode, Black and white, Canvas, no colours yet, Painting, Work in progressLeave a comment

Well, I’ve finally got back to my studio at spode! I started a small painting of a bottle oven, I think it’s going to have a Van Gogh style sky. I need to start getting some work done for a possible exhibition later in the year. I want to do work about the area, but with a bit of a twist. This is a canvas about two foot by eight inches? It will be acrylic on canvas once I’ve painted in the mortar for the brick work I will add colourful bricks. The sky will swirl with clouds and stars and there may be vegitation or a bit of foliage.

Mona

Posted on May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged acrylic paints, after Leonardo DaVinci, Art, live painting, Mona Lisa, Mystery May Madness, One hour forty minutes, Painting, Penkhull mystery play, Portrait4 Comments

Tonight I painted Mona for the Penkhull Mystery play, Mystery May Madness event which was a Zoom meeting with an audience watching flower arrangement, songs, memoirs, jokes, me painting this live, plus a raffle… All in 1hr 40mins! Acrylic on canvas, after Leonardo DaVinci. Needs a bit more work. X

Potbank shaped planter

Posted on May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic paint, Art, falcon, Falcon works, Goss works, Painting, Pottery, Project, wooden4 Comments

Based on the Falcon on the Goss works, Stoke-on-Trent.

My planter painted up for the Stoke BID Art-trail. It’s based on the Goss works Falcon plaque on the outside of a derelict pottery in Bath Street, Stoke-upon-trent, Stoke-on-Trent.

Several artists were given these potbank shaped planters to be painted up for the BID project. They should be on display this summer, all I need to do now is varnish it x

Roses

Posted on May 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black paper, faded, fallen petals, Life, Memory, Metallic paint, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Sad1 Comment

Metallic paint on black paper

Pale roses with red edges

Starting to fade

And fall

Soon your petals will drop

The vase emptied

Water poured away

Paint can fade too

Lost in a sketchbook

Somewhere in my mind.

Old watercolour

Posted on April 21, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drought, Flowers, grey skies, Painting, Rain, rain clouds, Water, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I miss rainclouds, full of dark grey promise. We’ve had a few weeks of dry weather and apart from a few spots of rain this morning we’ve had nothing. With that and the cold, frosty mornings, it’s taking a while for the plants to grow. We have a few seedlings, but when I went to a garden nursery they had hardly any perennial plants ready for growing on. I for one am hoping for rain soon.

Portraits with splodges

Posted on April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Painting, Portrait, Splodges, Watercolours6 Comments

Ten minute portrait studies with black paint splodges from bubble wrap. I used watercolour and black ink pens for the portraits. We did some minoprint a few weeks back but I found gluing down bits of paper then drawing over the top difficult so tried this instead. It also makes you consider where to paint the face!
We were using found items to add interest. My favourite is the pot of brushes obscuring the face of one of the sitters.

Plum blossom

Posted on April 17, 2021April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Garden, Gardening, Painting, plum blossom, Plum tree, Spring, Tree, Watercolour4 Comments

View from the kitchen window. This is the little plum tree ar the bottom of the garden. There is a cherry tree trunk in front of it and branches from that obscure the view. I decided to leave that out. I painted with watercolours. Palest first, then the pale greens and blues. It’s hard to fit the dark colours in without leaving white edges but I have never used masking fluid to hide the paler areas and I don’t want to start now.

Stone in a corner

Posted on April 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ancient, Church, Cold, corner stones, modern, orange paint, painted stone, Painting2 Comments

In the corner by the porch of a church. I wondered why? The colours caught my eye as we walked past yesterday.

Perhaps it was a child leaving it to remember a lost pet? Or just a painted stone left to brighten a dark corner.

It made me think of ancient and modern. How long will the stone remain unblemished, unfaded. Is it varnished? The paint will flake as the cold invades it. Moisture then ice will affect it. But at least it will remain for a while….

Today’s portrait session 9.4.21

Posted on April 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Friends, Painting, Pictures, Portrait, portrait session, Sketching, Watercolour, watercolour sketching8 Comments

Today we were playing with lighting effects, either with the light from a lamp, a phone or the screen light. I decided to try and use watercolour (mainly blue and brown) and a couple of extra colours depending on the backgrounds. The paint set doesn’t have a black, which makes it interesting trying to get dark enough colours…

Celtic cross

Posted on April 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, arm, Art, celtic cross, cross, Doctors, Drawing, Easter, Fed up, Painting, Shaking, Stone carving2 Comments

Tried to do a celtic cross (wonky). Sponged black paint. Black ink, then watercolour and finally a bit more black ink on top…
#bandofsketchers prompt today is Easter. I did try and copy this from a photo, but my left hand and arm wobble and shake so much its affecting my right arm. Very fed up. Would love to do something more accurate. I think I’d better try and get in the doctors.

Mallaband-Brown

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