This is painted across two pages of a sketchbook and scanned in two halves. I’ve tried to find a way of stitching the two halves together, but can’t find a way to do it.
This is painted in response to the EDM challenge to paint something green.
Category Archives: Painting
Sheep jaw in oils
I finally cracked open my new oil paints today (they arrived last week). This is the first ‘coat’ on an attempt to paint the sheep jaw that I found on the moors. I’ll be doing more to this once the first coat has dried (however long that takes). It’s very exciting – I haven’t painted with oils since I was a teenager (and then I only painted a couple of things).
It was surprisingly difficult to crack open the tubes and get painting. There’s something about oils that make me feel I have to do a ‘proper’ painting i.e. ‘get it right’. Whatever that means.
But I really enjoyed using them. The feel is so different to acrylic. And I can do sgraffito! I’ve never been able to do that with acrylic – it dries too fast.
Still life 5
This was completed at the end of the spring term, before the Easter break. It was the fifth in a series of still life paintings. I’m reasonably pleased with it, but there is something wrong with the colours – I’m not sure they work as well as they could. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Blown tree
Another of my visual research sketches for ‘fractured landscape’.
Completed portrait
This morning I spent three and a half hours in life class completing this very formal portrait. The poor model must have been terribly stiff by the time we finished. I’m quite pleased with this, as I haven’t done very much representational painting (especially of people). I’ve used acrylics, but am itching to try oil paints. The only thing I’m not sure about is the turpentine fumes (and safe disposal of turps); and the longer drying time. Any tips?
Formal Portrait
In lifedrawing, we are doing a two-session seated formal portrait. This is my painting so far. I’ll be completing it this Friday.
Still life
For the last few weeks at art college, we’ve been painting a still life. We’re using it to learn different ways of using paint. For this exercise, we were supposed to use tissue paper to build up a textural painting. Only I got so carried away by the beautiful colours of the tissue paper and how you could layer them that I ended up ‘painting’ it in tissue paper. Really, you can paint with just about anything.
Still Life
This exercise was to use black and white paint only, and to focus on tonal values (the differences between light and shade). It is surprisingly difficult to identify tones. You can have two different colours (say red and blue) but they can be the same tone – so how do you differentiate them if you are just using shades of grey?
Lifedrawing class II
Hmmmm. Well, I’m not sure that I’ve improved her. Still, it’s all learning I suppose.
Lifedrawing class 1
We are doing a life painting over two sessions. This is from the first session last Friday. I shall be completing it tomorrow.