I’ve finally declared this painting ‘finished’.   Oil on canvas, 4ft x 3ft.  Click to enlarge.  I’ve also included a detail to show the texture of the paint on the surface.

Time for something new!

Spot the difference …

Unfortunately this is a rotten photo, which doesn’t help.  I’ve still got more to do on this painting, but will leave it alone now until after the half-term break.  It is extremely difficult trying to resolve an abstract painting!

This is taking a lot of my creative energy at the moment.  It is my first ‘proper’ canvas (4ft by 3ft).  This is a work in progress.  I’m not happy with it yet – it needs more ‘life’.  Problem is, I’m starting to get too careful with it, which is not what is needed at all!

Oil on wood.

I’ve been quiet here of late because I’ve been busier than usual with career coaching clients.  However, I did find time yesterday to stretch my first canvas.  This was my first adventure with a staple gun.  Stretching a canvas is surprisingly hard work, and can take the skin off your knuckles.  Still, I can paint over the bloodstains. 🙂

One of a series of oil paintings that I am developing for ‘Fractured Landscape’.  This is based on the section from an earlier painting.

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.