New paintings and regular art updates.
Art lunches are happening once a month now. While I was there I drew a couple of visitors, my teacup and the tiny teapot that went with it, and also the view out of the kitchen of my friends house.
Art lunch is the opportunity for local artists and creative people to get together and talk about their art and network, or maybe just chat and relax.
Had a lovely time. X
After hours of work my willow pattern painting is finished.
I have finished working on it after having to have a rest .
I needed to add details in the reflection at the bottom of the painting , plus shading and highlights on the platter and behind it so it stands out more.
This is the third painting of ceramics I have done in this series.
this jug was the second acrylic on canvas I did.
and this is part way through the teapot painting, which was the first one I did. ..
Im not sure how many more I will paint.
The painting is a bit smaller than A2 in size, acrylic on canvas. Although I have looked at a couple of reference photos its mostly from my imagination. I decided on a dark background to make the teapot stand out more. I need to do more work on the background wood panelling and the pot. Bringing in more reflections and light.
I’m trying to do some paintings of pottery. I know what I want to do in my minds eye, but getting it down on canvas is a different matter.Do I copy directly from reference photos, imagine a peice of pottery or do a bit of both? In this case I have used a photo of a teapot shape, but have started to create a pattern based on a local pottery pattern, but not an exact copy. I am not sure what to do next but I’m considering adding butterflies or flowers…. I suppose I could add any additional object…. I just don’t want it looking too flat .
Mallaband-Brown