Started painting Falcon works

Posted on October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Derelict pottery, Falcon works, Mr Goss, Portmeirion pottery, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Sturgess Street, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’m in the middle of painting this nightmare of bricks! I’m also struggling with the perspective. I want to do more to it but I’m having a break for a bit. I’ve noticed that the windows are not lined up properly so I will have to over paint a section of it. Also, although the photo is quite dark I’m trying to get more shaping and brighter colours into the autumn leaves and I think I will try and lighten the bricks possibly by adding lines of paler mortar between the bricks. Anyway it’s a work in progress and it needs more work.

Lion

Posted on September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Big cat, Lion, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Work in progress4 Comments

Suddenly remembered,

I promised to paint a Lion.

I’m rushing to do it,

but taking Pride.

Got to get it right,

Get its golden eyes bright.

Mainly work on its Mane,

Black whiskers and deep pink nose.

Proud Leo, big cat.

Leonine, powerful, strong.

Fur and Fury,

King of the plains.

Small painting of Jupiter, work in progress

Posted on September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Great Red spot, Jupiter, Planet, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’m trying to paint the Great red spot of Jupiter and I’m using the photo on the right as a basis of it. The painting is more angled than straight on and so the red spot has a bit of curvature to it, as if the view point is down and to the right of the original photo….. But oh! Those waves and swirls, so hard to render!

Might add a moon or its shadow, thinking about it. Having a rest, still feel ill! Grr….

Green Woman, self portrait..

Posted on September 12, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Portrait, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

I suppose it would happen. I decided to do a self portrait….. I seem to do them once in a decade. The last one was a drawing about ten years ago.

I’m not sure if painting myself as a Green woman will work, but hopefully it will compliment the portrait of my hubby as a Green man. I’m thinking of offering to do them as portraits for people who are interested in the pagan world.

I’ll share more as it progresses. X

Almost done, painting update.

Posted on August 17, 2019August 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Painting, pprogress, self portrait, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’ve added myself in the bottom right hand side of the painting. I’m there as a ghostly shadow in the photo, so why not? Trying to get an idea of cracked paint on the frame. 15660661997191669111920713503871

Can you see my phone?

Painting upside down.

Posted on August 16, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blogging, Computer, Design, Landscape, Life, Painting, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Work in progress5 Comments

Sometimes it’s hard to see whether something looks right in a painting. Then I try turning it upside down. It really does give you a different perspective. In the case of the painting I’m doing it also allows me to get closer to the top of the picture as I’ve got it propped up on a chair.

Eyesight is another problem. If I’m staring at my phone looking at the image it’s hard for my eyes to accommodate (called presbyopia) where the lenses in your eyes get stiffer as you get older, so they don’t focus as well.

I’m now starting to paint the cracks in the window frame paint. I may come back to the clouds (thanks Martha, a bit of finger painting helped).

I’ve rotated the photo back to the vertical on my camera so I can look at it without moving the canvas. Eventually I will turn it back the right way so I can paint the bottom half. It’s going to take a while…..

Progress?

Posted on August 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Limited pallette, Painting, Spode, Stoke-on trent, Work in progressLeave a comment

I’m having a rest and trying to decide whether I’m happy with this. I think the width of the frames of the windows need widening….. Also I’ve been using quite a thin white paint which does not have enough pigment in it. I think I will need to strengthen it. At the moment I’m just using cobalt blue, titanium white and a black. I don’t know whether to add a bit of yellow into the sky and window frames, or some violet. But that will happen as I build it up. The image is slightly stretched horizontally. I’m wondering whether to strengthen the blue.

Started painting Mars

Posted on July 25, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, God of War, Mars, Orange, Painting, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Science, Space, Work in progressLeave a comment

Segment of orange

To be dipped in icing sugar

Shaded with grey dust

Cratered and pocked

Darkness of space

Infinite and black

Wrapped around

Orb of rust

Canyons and mountains

Greatest Volcano

Olympus Mons

Stands tall

Carbon dioxide ices

Covering poles

Dust storms covet your land.

Dragon eye

Posted on July 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #market_@_48, Acrylic on canvas, Art, Craft fair, Design, Eleanora st, Painting, Potbank Hotel, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Work in progress6 Comments

Tiny painting for the craft fair. I’m experimenting again. I’m doing normalise things but also things to catch the eye. Tiny paintings need tiny brushes, and my eyesight is not as good as it was. Shaky hands, holding my breath. Sometimes it’s hard to get the effect you want.

Run out of red

Posted on July 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Colours, Crimson, Flowers, Needs work, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Red, Tiny paintings, Work in progress11 Comments

I want a light red

Not a pink

Not orange

Crimson?

Perhaps,

Maybe vermilion,

Something punchy,

Not magenta,

Not alizarian

Not a deep cadmium red (hue)

So many names

But which one will be right,

What is the correct tinge?

Works in progress

Paint laid on paint,

Building up layers,

Blood red?

Maybe if I put my heart into it.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Work in progress