Adding a shimmer of gold and silver embellishment to my A3 Koi Print.
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Shimmer
Sketches
Sketching can be for practice, but also a bridge to keep on going from one idea to the next.
Practice
These are prep sketches for a commission and a practice painting of a Weimeraner using the example from a Youtube video. There is plenty of good inspiration on Youtube!
Whodunnit? The Risk of Hanging Art in a Public Space….#Nailsworth
This print was taken recently from my exhibition at The Vault in Nailsworth. It is rather strange and fortunate that although I had hung the original painting which I am very fond of in the exhibition I then changed my mind and switched it for the print. There is only one print of this painting. So if you see this anywhere other than in my possession it is the one that has been stolen. It is sad isn’t it that this should have happened..?
#Art for Art’s Sake
Sometimes, or maybe even often, I produce pieces of work and dismiss them. I don’t mean to, I do not think hard about this at all, it just happens. These pieces surface at times, perhaps when an exhibition is about to begin and I start gathering things together.
My “Stepping Crane” is such a piece, having been exhibited at the Amberley Inn on our “Fish and Ships” PV night and I am pleased to say it is shortly on its’ way to a new home.
Stepping Crane, Original SOLD
#Koi #Carp Work In Progress
A new fish painting …..
Initial work in progress
Work In Progress
#Koi #Fish #Art WIP madness!
Sometimes you choose a background that drives you a bit crazy because of its’ design. This is not a commission and so I only have myself to blame. Here is a close up of my current work in progress about 1/4 of the total A4 size, the area around the pebbles for the whole image took around 5 hours.
#Cranes & #Terns Chinese Style (#Painting!)
My first attempts at using a Chinese Brush in the traditional manner.
The Cool Wall – Gypsy #Ponies on The Common with #Donkey Friend Alfie
The last few days have been so hot here, and these ponies’ tails keep on swishing at those persistent flies. I love their patchwork piebald colours and the orderly way they have stationed themselves with their faces as close to the wall as they can.
Penny’s Sheep
A sheep from the Trossach’s which does not actually belong to Penny but does wander around her garden and Cottage Holiday Let as it is open to the farmer’s field.
When is a Painting Finished?
So When is a Painting Actually Finished?
When it has made it to the bin? Hopefully not.
I have ready many tips on this and this one sums it up in a great way for me.
Artist Bryan Evans states in The Artist that
“…a painting is finished when it’s not as good as it just was, and is unlikely to get any better.”
Easy to say;, but hard to (cockadoodle) do!
Bird Crazy – Hawks and Roosters
All sorts of painting ideas currently on the go. These birds have attitude!
WIP Birds
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