Freya and Indianna Old Leigh

Freya and Indianna at Old Leigh

 

Oil on board 10" x 12"

 

This one started as a demo piece for one of my classes last year when we went down to Old Leigh on a painting trip.   As you can see below I didn't get very far with it!   I'd taken a few photo's for my students to finish there paintings from so I decided to finish this one myself as well.  What I really love about Freya is the lovely yellow colour.  She's not usually moored up here so I didn't get the opportunity to go back and finish the painting on site.

Rayleigh Millenium clock and the high street

 

Rayleigh Millennium Clock and High Street

12" x 10" Oil on Board

 

I put a few finishing touches to this one a few days ago from memory.   Mostly working on the  figures and the foreground area.

 

I developed this one over the summer by painting in  20 min bursts at the end of my lunch breaks on Tuesdays.  I can't really remember exactly how many sessions it took but it was quite a few.   I think one problem with working in this way was that I found it difficult to get into the flow when I had to keep stopping and starting so I will probably just stick to quicker sketches with my pens as I find them more satisfying and then work on the paintings during longer painting sessions.  

A few sketches from the last day or two.

 

Bryn and Lyndon watching telly a couple of nights ago

I had a follow up appointment at the hospital today,  the good news is that I can start to bear some weight on my leg and if all goes well I can drive again in a week.  The bad news is that I've got to carry on using crutches for the next 6 weeks.  I got my new Tom Bow pens through the post a couple of days ago so I got to try them out on a few faces in the waiting room today.

 

 

 

 

Morning light

 

Watercolour postcard sized

Here's another of my watercolour postcard attempts from a couple of days ago.  I was attracted by the light on the chimneys and the view is the view over the back gardens through our bedroom window in the mornings.    I'm enjoying having a go at water colours but I think I need to get just a little bigger!

Fishing boats Old Leigh

Fishing Boats Old Leigh

20 X 20 cm Oil on board

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Here's an oil sketch I painted on location last year in Old Leigh on a lovely hot summers day. 

Some of my paintings from 2013.

My blog rather lapsed into disuse last year so I thought I'd do a bit of catching up over the next few days.   I decided I'd enter the SAA competition the other night and I was updating my web pages on that site and then entering the new paintings into the competition and it occurred to me that it would be just a small step to also past the content plus a bit more here too!  So here we go in no particular order.....

I started this one on location in Bath in the summer of 2012. I had a few hours left before I was due to get my train home.  This is how it looked at the end of the first session painted on location.  

When I got home I chopped the bottom of the board and finished the rest of it from a couple of photo's I'd taken,  I finally finished it in the early part of 2013.

 

I'll try and catch up with a few more pic's over the next few day's.

About Blogs and Bloging

As I've had a bit of time lately I thought I would slightly alter the appearance of my blog and I've given it a plain grey background which I think ties in nicely with the look of my website.  I've also started the list of blogs and websites on the right hand side here and I thought I would take the opportunity to mention  a few of the blogs I have a look at on a fairly regular basis which I've got interested in over the last couple of years and which got me interested in starting this blog.    Most of these I've only really discovered through looking at art blogs and more recently a few others discovered through facebook.  

http://griffinartgroup.blogspot.co.uk/

I've worked with the Griffin Art  group based in Danbury for a number of years now (I really can't remember exactly when we started out but its always been a pleasure to meet up 3 or 4 times a year with them and this was the first art blog I came across.


http://adebanjialade.blogspot.co.uk/

I discovered Adebanji's blog through his website address which I saw in an art magazine  and it was like opening up and Aladins cave of interesting articles both about Adebanji's but also lots of interesting links to other web sites and blogs of other artists and organisations.   Here's a few:

http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/

Making a mark is a fantastic blog written by Katherine Tyrrell.  As she say's at the beginning of her blog she "writes about art for artists and art lovers on her top art blog" and it really is a fantastic resource.

http://olechko.org/ 
Olha Pryymak is an artist whose work I've enjoyed following for the last couple of years.


http://www.dailypaintworks.com/
There's a few artists whose work I enjoy seeing on this site which changes on a daily basis and this was one of the sites I got interested in which displays work by artists who paint mainly small paintings on a daily basis and post them to the site each day.

http://www.urbansketchers.org/
I love to have a look at this blog from time to time which displays the work of sketching correspondent's around the world who post there sketches of urban environments all drawn directly in front of the subject.  There's also a  link on the blog to a flickr page with a wider pool of artists which I've occasionally contributed to.