Almost finished Lobster

Posted on July 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Commission, Lobster, Painting, Picture, Water, Work in progressLeave a comment

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Work in progress, about A4 size, acrylic on canvas. I’ve got to work on the background. It’s now a commission as someone saw the start of it and liked it. I’m not sharing this on my Facebook page because I want it to be a surprise. I don’t think I will do a lot more to it. I want to resolve the head though. The photo I’m working from has a lot of dark rock and patterns around its head and its hard to see what’s happening. That’s why a lot of the surface is on is light so the lobster stands out a bit more.

I’m trying to make it look like it’s almost floating. I might add some light and dark bands, like ripples of light and shade being reflected down from the surface.

Another WIP

Posted on March 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Animals, Art, Birds, Blue, Green, Iridescent, Kingfisher, Nature, Orange, Painting, Work in progress2 Comments

After finishing my ‘green people’ I’m about to start work again on this kingfisher painting. I intend to try and leave the background quite blurred and try and get a lot of detail into the Kingfisher. They really are the most beautiful of birds, with iridescent plumage. It’s acrylic on canvas as usual. About 10 x 14 inches? Maybe slightly bigger than that. Might do some more to it today.

I think you can see these down on the river Trent, although I don’t know if there is too much fish there for them.

Got to start painting again

Posted on February 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Humour, Imagination, Life, Painting, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

_20200219_130113 this is a self portrait I started last year, but haven’t finished. So where best to start when you have been a bit blocked, than to work on something like this.

I want to do a series of ‘green’ portraits. The idea being that I can make a different image that is striking and interesting. Although there is a basic structure done on this I may make a lot of changes. Its definitely a work in progress.

Geese in progress

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Based on a Minton tile, Geese, Mural, Painting, Tired, Water, Work in progressLeave a comment

The mural is about half finished. There is a lot to do still, more details on the geese. Splashing water, not added yet, I’ve been trying to get the background done first. Then outlining the patches of water. The little goslings need a stronger yellow. Then the reeds and leaves need finishing. I’m getting tired.

Muraling again…

Posted on November 29, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged acrylic on plaster, Art, Design, Geese, Life, Mural, Painting, Walls, Work in progress2 Comments

I did more to the mural today, climbing up and down some steps to get up to the top of it. I’m tired but happy with it so far. I’ve toned down some purple I’d added to it and made it more grey. This was because I was trying to add colour to it but was a bit overwhelming. Once I’ve finished blocking in the background I will add reeds and leaves and other details. I’ve got some iridescent white which I’m going to use to add more sparkle to it. Once it’s finished it’s going to have a glaze over it to protect it.

May get it finished by next week.

Trying to paint Clooney not right yet…

Posted on October 27, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Commission, Learning, Portrait, Portrait of Clooney?, Trying to improve, Work in progress2 Comments

I’ve got his nose too long, his face needs to be slightly wider. The eyes need to be slightly further apart. I’ve got to work out if the mouth and chin are right. This is one of four possible commissions I’ve got. I’m not bad at portraits, but you have to be willing to change things and not stick with something if its not right.

I’ll leave it a few hours and then come back to it…..

Wips

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocking out, Design, Drawing, Progress, Sketches, Work in progressLeave a comment

Works in progress. All imagined except for the black and white cat which is my boy cat. What can I do to improve them?

Sketches they are based on.

Green Woman self portrait wip

Posted on October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Green leaves, Green woman, Painting, Work in progressLeave a comment

Working on this now. I don’t do many self portraits, but since I did one of my hubby I decided to do my own. At the moment I’m just working out the leaves positions. I might try and add more shading and add some autumnal colours.

Snow spirits

Posted on October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Landscape, Snow, Snow spirits, Surreal, Tree, Work in progress7 Comments

Well I did it! The painting is long and thin, so I might add something to the lower third of the painting….

Something less traditional

Posted on October 13, 2019October 13, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Bottle ovens, Design, Landscape, Negative image, Painting, Pottery, Winter kilns, Work in progressLeave a comment

After the intricacies of the previous painting I decuded late last night to start this, based on photo that I’d worked on to turn it negative. It’s also got an interesting effect of light and dark on things like the chain link fence and round the edges of the bottle ovens.

I don’t paint bottle ovens very often, they are iconic round here, but there are an overwhelming number of ainting of them. Everyone has their own style and thoughts about them, this is me trying to put on a different spin if you see what I mean. The finished work will be called Winter kilns.

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Tag: Work in progress