Oxfordshire Artweeks Christmas Weekend

 

Just nipped over the road for a kebab and found this magazine with some of my artwork in it....lovely :-)

 

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Apple tree painting part 2

Here's the second part of the painting being done :-)

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Photos...

As promised, a few more photos this time…

Shelf tops now stained…

New trolley, ultimately for paints, but currently an extra bench…

Hole cut in counter for jewellery display…

Some frame samples up on the wall…

Building a frame for Lorna as I unpack the Artweeks brochures…

And finally, a painting…just the first layer and this is only part of it, but you get the general idea…. :)

Wot, No Picture...

I’ve entered a competition for Artweeks If you fancy voting for me ;) the link is HERE :)

Many thanks :)

Meeting at the bank and the such like today, but i did make some progress in the shop, will post soon. I've also been experimenting on a new style of artwork for the Artweeks exhibition...I'll try and get that photographed tomorrow :)

Artweeks 2011 draws to a close, next stop Meller in August...

Well Artweeks comes to an end on Monday (If you haven’t been over yet, I’m open tomorrow 1-6 & Monday 12-6 ;)) Things have gone very well, lots of visitors, good sales & some excellent feedback on the paintings, particularly the latest pieces, which is great, all in all a very productive month :) If you’re one of the people who came over and inquired about the latest paintings which I said would be going to the Meller Gallery in June, they’ll now be going in August, but they’ll be more of them (keep looking in here to see the extra additions) I’ll post when I know the exact date and which of their galleries they’ll be in (Oxford, Witney or both).

As you can see from the photo I’ve started on the latest piece ‘In Dreams You’re Mine – I’ and primed several canvases ready for the August Meller show paintings…Lots of work to do :)

waiting - part 1

Artweeks is well underway now & we've had some lovely visitors in over the weekend, in between borring them with my chatter on pigments I've managed to get a little work done on this new painting. It's called 'Waiting for the right one - I' & the model is Katie.

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Artweeks 2010

I’ll be exhibiting some paintings at Arts Inc as part of their Artweeks 2010 exhibition. 22nd – 31st May 2010. They’ll be a dozen fabulous artists exhibiting a variety of works, so pop in and take a look if you get the chance. :)

In The Forest

Here’s a final print. Lots of detail in this one so it took a long time to carve, but I think the end result has been worth it…I now find myself wanting to order some much larger lino blocks and make things even more complex lol ;) I think I’ll do a few more at this scale first though. Would be nice to get a small set together for Artweeks…Anyway, hopefully this is an image people will find both beautiful and curious…make of it what you will :)

Finished one !

Had a very selfish 5 hours on the picture this afternoon...and finished it off, did a little more on the apples, but mainly worked on the leaves - What idiot thought painting Chard would be a good idea...Anyway, I'm quite pleased with the results, It's been a really interesting exercise...have tried to focus in on the mark making, holding the brushstrokes together etc...very challenging :) It should have time to dry for Artweeks, so I'll put it in the Bartholomew rooms for those of you local ish who want to see it in the flesh...:)

more leaves...

a bit more work on the leaves today...not much to write other than that, so I thought I'd post a pic of the CD's I listen to while painting...I need constant background noise to clear my head...comes from being bought up in a pub with a loud jukebox :)

Chard

Did a bit on the chard tonight, again it's taking a while as I keep working into things to try and get it right while holding an interesting brush stroke...all in all, a very interesting excercise...

Apples...

Did a bit of work on the still life this afternoon...spent AGES trying to get the apples right...Quite happy with the ones at the bottom of the picture, so starting to work into the chard leaves now.

Also played around with the portraits of Neil, Steve and Ant last night. I think I might have got them all working as one image again. Plus came up with some surreal elements to pull things together and add more interest...I'll try and get a bit more work done on that this week and see if I can get a sketch posted....Off for beer now :)

and then it was done...and...

Took off the masking fluid and added a couple of extra marks today, all done now and ready to be framed. I'm pleased with the water in particular...Hopefully it'll go down well when it goes on exhibition at the Farmoor Reservoir in late May, I'll post the exact dates nearer the time...

Here's the painting I'm entering for the Summer Exhibition at the RA, just before I wrapped it up in bubble wrap... As always, it'll be an exciting time waiting to see if it's accepted. On the one hand you dream of getting in and on the other, you try and tell yourself it'll come down to getting a bit lucky with the judges, if they don't like your particular style, that's just bad luck, doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your art... No big deal, just one of those things, no need to feel rejected if it doesn't get in...but deep down inside, I really want to get in...:)

I need to take my painting forward and something like this would be a great boost of confidence...:) Anyway, I'm delivering it Tuesday afternoon and we'll hear back by the 1st of June...so time will tell. Good luck to all those other artists entering and if you didn't enter this year...start on that painting for next year...:)

Then a bit of detail...

Added a bit of detail tonight, most of it's in I just need to take the masking fluid off and then put the final glazes and marks in the white areas...I probably would have finished it tonight...but Jack seems to have "borrowed" my putty rubber, so I couldn't remove the masking fluid cleanly...never, mind, should get it all finished in the next session :)

First Wash...

Started on the watercolour tonight, took a while for the masking fluid to dry, so didn't get that much done. I'm quite pleased with it so far. It's doing to be tricky balancing the accuracy needed for the tower and boat with the looseness i want in the water and sky...I probably won't do much more with the water and sky, but I'll have to wait until the rest is in and the masking fluid comes off, to see exactly how much balancing needs to be done...

You’ll have to squint to see it…

I’ve started on picture number one, have kept the single boat, but gone for a vertical composition, so hopefully it’s a reasonable mix of peoples suggestions :)

Not a great photo I’m afraid, I’ll splash some colour on soon and that will hopefully make it much clearer…

The tower and boat have required much more drawing than I’ve done on my other watercolours, so I’m interested to see if I can keep the spontaneity that some of the other pictures have…I guess we’ll find out over the next few days...

Vote now!

I need to do a couple of pictures for an exhibition at the Farmoor reservoir taking place during Artweek this year. So tonight I’ve been doing a few sketches.

I probably won’t turn them all into paintings in the time I’ve got, so I thought I’d get you all to vote on which one(s) you’d most like to see…when I finally sit down to paint, I’ll see which one is the most popular at that point and paint it…so get voting…unlike ITV, this won’t cost you a penny…;)

1. a single yacht sailing by an interesting looking observation tower

2. a group of three yachts

3. a yacht hiding behind some observation sheds

4. three small yachts under a big sky