Oil Bars

Posted on November 28, 2017January 19, 2018 Posted in Oil Bars, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Abstract Art, Abstract Landscape Paintings, Art, Flowers, Inks, Landscapes, Mixed Media, Oil paints, Painting, Poppies2 Comments

Apologies for such a long time in posting any arty updates – been lots of family things to sort out lately, I’m quite exhausted by all of that, so let’s get on with it hey?

I discovered Winsor & Newton Oil Bars quite by accident and only have a small selection at this stage. But boy am I enjoying this new found freedom. I am still doing fiddly small things while I get used to manipulating the oil bars on different surfaces. These are some of the more recent things I did over the weekend.

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‘Patchwork landscape with blue’

14.5″ x 10″ or 37cm x 25cm – actual painting size.

Acrylic inks, oil bars and oil paints on acrylic art pad.

Surface worked with sgraffito technique

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‘Poppy field’

9.5″ x 6.5″ or 24.5cm x 16 cm

Acrylic inks, Oil bars and oil paints on Daler Rowney acrylic paper

Surface worked with sgraffito technique

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‘Poppy field with buildings’

7″ x 5″ or 18cm x 12cm

Acrylic inks, oil bars and oil paint on mixed media paper.

Surface worked with sgraffito technique

I am also working on a largre canvas piece, as well as a larger landscape piece but these aren’t ready to put up here yet.

Hope you enjoy!

Howdy …

Posted on April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 Posted in Thoughts and ramblings, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Well I am settled and most of my art materials are unpacked. I believe I am so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of South Norfolk. I walk down our driveway and turn left, immediately I’m in a large wheat field. Further along there are fields of rape seeds bursting with that electric neon yellow. On the morning walks with our little dog, all you can hear is hundreds of birds calling to each other, the hedgerows are alive with whirring, chirping and warbling. (I refuse point blank to say twittering)

Once all my stuff is sorted out, I’ll be posting more work – bear with me for a few more days!

Prints!

Posted on February 6, 2017 Posted in Prints, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I can now offer high quality signed colour prints of my work, mounted onto stretched canvas. See below example. Price on enquiry.

New Mixed Media painting

Posted on January 7, 2017January 18, 2017 Posted in UncategorizedLeave a comment

‘Sunset trees in Snow’

Mixed media – soft pastels, acrylics, Pebeo gold metallic foil for water accent on Daler Rowney System 3 Acrylic paper – A3 size.

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Grounds … and difference each one makes to finished pastel paintings.

Posted on December 30, 2016January 13, 2017 Posted in Small paintings, Soft Pastels, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Yep, changed the theme is … not sure if people like this design, please let me know if you think it’s irritating and I’ll revert back to the old theme!

I did a painting with these chalky soft pastels that I received over Christmas of a Norfolk windmill with storm clouds looming in the background – I thought the dark sky would make for an interesting contrast with the colours of the buildings, bathed in sunlight. However, I just could not get the intensity of the background right – I was using a watercolour paper and even though this was a very expensive ground, it was completely incorrect for this style of picture.

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Then today I did another painting (larger than the windmill one) of a landscape on precoloured (sand/khaki) roughly textured very cheap paper and the results were noticeably different. I’m pleased with the way this one turned out, as the reference photo I used was from a very old book I have Scottish landscapes that are now mostly gone to urbanisation and the photo was ‘green’ and very dull. This one is 14″ x 10″ …

I should get my new materials, paper etc. next week and am really looking forward to trying it all out.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Footnote:

Due to the fact that the windmill pastel painting was done on watercolour paper, I discovered that by using water, I was able to get a much darker effect with the background.

I adjusted the other painting (now framed, ‘scuse crap photo) , took out the boats in the right hand mid section of the loch and change the sky (It was very naive in the first attempt).

Ink landscapes

Posted on December 2, 2016 Posted in Small paintings, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Abstract Art, Art, Contemporary Paintings, Impressionism, Inks, paintingsLeave a comment

Yes, I’ve been absent from WordPress for quite a while … the whole of November has been a bit of a bugger up on my side – mainly because I’ve been in and out of hospital. I’m on the mend now and getting stronger all the time but it’s been a very long, stressful and frustrating process, don’t recommend it.

I was doodling about with inks recently, just to see if I could still do something artistic while I was feeling so down. So here are the results … one (the daisies) was a request from a friend of my daughters, I hope she likes it.