Whittling

Long, Tall, Thin and Sally

Cherry Wood

Taking shape, more detail and refinement, a sand down and polish, mounting on a block and ready! By April? Hah!!!!!!

Tiddling Again

 After a friend and fellow blogger, Linda, pointed out a few let downs in the drawing of this, I tried to rectify, having seen just what she meant. I always find such interaction to be highly beneficial. Any ways, spending so much time on the underpainting goes against the grain with me, and I am now loathe to take this further by adding colour. 

After prevaricating, or is it procrastinating, about a background for this lovely girl, I bit the bullet and whacked on some colour. I had spent the morning asking the opinion of my fellow Wash Art Group members. Very helpful it was! Thank you.

Lizzie 20" x 20" Charcoal

Meet Elizabeth Crow, I have just found her on FB, after no contact for about 45 years. She was a playmate at primary school and high school and now we have challenged each other to draw the other! 

A Start

 Me Three  16 " x 16" Oil

Back in 2009 this painting was one of five winners of The One Shows' Summer Exhibition. I have made a start on a new version of this same idea, inspired by The Three Graces, Antonio Canova's statue.

MeMeMe  16" x 16" Oil

WIP

Detail of the painting currently on my easel.

Wash Art Club

 I tiddled up Damian   til Iwas happier,  then made a start on Noel.  A good morning.

WA - Paint a Famous Person WIP

Damian Lewis as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall

Happy New Year 16" x 16" Oil A Start

I said 'Please can I take a photo?' Their 'Of course!' meant nothing as they continued their messaging. 'I shall paint this!'

WooHoo! I am painting again. It has been a long break.

Happy New Year Everyone.

Merry Christmas

Two minute doodle on the tablet! With a little refinement..............I like it!

Some Stuff I've Been Doing...........

 Long Tall Thin  Cherry   WIP

 Jean  10" x 12"  Acrylic

Dennis  10" x 12"  Oil

Happy Holiday

Painting

Did a bit more to this , which is slowly getting there, I think. 

WA - Worn and Weathered continued -not.

 We had a bit of drama at the start of the afternoon when part of the ceiling fell down! Luckily no-one was hurt, we moved all the tables to the other end of the room and carried on regardless!

Jack and Archie 20" × 16"  Oil  wip

I didn't carry on with the same theme as last week
 because Judith gave me a commission, to paint her friends' twin boy grandchildren. I have tackled this by blocking in local colour first, with refining to come. Good start

Black 20" x 8" Oil

David 20" x 16" Oil

Drew this first with burnt umber, probably because of the coat, but then continued in my usual way with ultramarine, cad red and raw sienna. And I did use titanium white on the T-shirt and highlights. Seems like I have extended my palette with no conscious thought of doing so. Ha, go with the flow, then!  ;-o

David 20" × 16" Oil beginning

Practice

WA - Applying All We Learned

 The girls didn't like this 'miserable' one

So I did another!

And then made some adjustments.

Pastel Play

Last Wed at the WA we were treated to a demo of pastel painting by Mo Drake. She has inspired me to get out my pastels again and practice in ready-ness for the WA meeting tomorrow when the brief is to make use of tips and techniques shown to us by Mo. 

One thing she showed was to paint white pastel first on passages of sky or water, to help get a look of transparency and for ease of blending. I wondered if this would work for skin, so I tried today, with my best white CHALK! Have to go buy some white soft pastel....pronto!

Evie Black + White 12" × 16" Pastel

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Went here today, for the first time, and saw this.

Had the BEST day!

With Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Giacometti, Alison Watt, Stanley Spencer, Francis Bacon, Matisse, Modigliano............to name but a few..............how could I not? 

Brilliant.

There was also an Art Nouveau exhibition which I have to save for another day because I was pooped!