One of a series of oil paintings that I am developing for ‘Fractured Landscape’. This is based on the section from an earlier painting.
Author Archives: Carole
Charlecote Park
Watercolour on Bockingford watercolour paper. Painted from a photo taken on my birthday last year at Charlecote Park in Warwickshire. This little girl was clearly in quite a huff, with tightly crossed arms and a pink face. But she looked so picturesque amongst the spectacular flower borders of the formal gardens.
Figure-making
In textiles class, we were introduced to the idea of figure or doll-making. They don’t need to be pretty, or to resemble actual figures. I simply chose some material and got stuck in without any idea in my head of what I was going to make. I chose some beads, buttons and yarns and started to embelish her.
Three weeks later, I finished. She’s kind of … unusual, isn’t she?
Tree abstract
Oil paint on mdf. Painted entirely using a plastic disposable knife. Based on a photo of part of a tree that had grown multiple shoots, creating lots of light and shadow.
A fragment of the same painting cropped using Paintshop Pro. I could happily use this as a starting point for another painting.
Burned Heather
Earlier this spring, the skies above the moors were full of thick plumes of smoke. Great patches of heather lay blackened where they had been burned. This is not some hideous act of vandalism, but is good land management practice. Burning off patches of moorland encourages new growth which the baby moorland birds like to eat; whilst keeping other areas untouched for the birds to safely nest in. This practice also keeps the heather from getting too overgrown, as it can become a serious fire hazard otherwise.
The picture is taken from a bird’s eye viewpoint, and drawn from a photo.
Draw something round
Well, I set myself a challenge with this! The challenge was to draw something round. We have a wonderful stone ball made of grey Kirkstone from the Lake District. To stop it rolling about, we’ve propped it in a metal t-light holder that normally holds 3 t-lights. This is what I’ve attempted to draw.
Drawn on cartridge paper with 6B graphite stick and much use of pencil eraser.
Buttons
I’ve brought these buttons home from textiles class. They may end up embelishing the doll/figure that I’ve been making. She may make an appearance here one day – depending upon how shy she’s feeling.
Life model painted in black and white
Gosh, this is difficult. I so much admire all you folk out there who can do life drawing and painting. But I will persevere!
Clogs
Journey to abstraction (or driven to distraction)
Continuing the fractured landscape project – these are A4 studies of small sections of the A1-size pieces that I did last week. The next stage is to play with different media/colour/size/formats.
